Parental Alienation Syndrome in Court Referred Custody Cases

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This dissertation summarizes the research of 30 court referred, custody dispute cases assessing the behaviors of the parents and their children to determine the presence or absence of Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS). The criteria to determine the parent and their children's behaviors is Dr. Gardner's definition of Parental Alienation Syndrome. The parents were placed in three categories (mild, moderate or severe) based on their symptoms and behaviors. Their children (59) were then categorized into three groups (mild, moderate, severe). This investigation seeks to determine additional information regarding the presence or absence of PAS. Reluctance by the courts and mental health community to accept the validity of PAS probably contributes to the perpetuation of the disruption of parent-child relations in custody disputes.Findings and Conclusions: It appears the data from this study corroborates observations and definitions of Parental Alienation Syndrome. The data from this study indicates that the parents in the mild PAS category have children who exhibit fewer negative behaviors toward the alienated parents whereas children whose parents are in the severe category exhibit more negative behaviors towards the alienated parents. This study found that the more negative behaviors a child exhibits towards an alienated parent, the more severe their parent's symptoms and behaviors. Consequently, there is more severe alienation from the alienated parent and the more disruption to that parent-child relation. PAS is a distinctive form of child abuse generally found in intractable custody disputes. Download 1st chapter & ByteSizeSystems Reader FREE - and buy ByteSize b-book for $5.00.

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A Google user
So-called Parental Alienation Syndrome has never been accepted by any professional body, and has been debunked by the American Judge's Association and the National District Attorney's Association. It is commonly used by abusive men to take children away from their mothers. Any psychologist that buys into this sham syndrome should be investigated for bias in custody evaluations they have done.
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Until you've been a victim of a vengeful parent trying to completely phase out the children's father (or mother), until you've tried to tell your story and no one believes you or until you've been stonewalled from seeing your own children for years, you cannot possibly know how hurtful PAS is to entire families. It would be irresponsible and ignorant to dismiss this very real phenomenon as junk. With one false accusation, one spouse can destroy the other spouse's life; this is what the PAS parent desires to do, and sadly, at times, the court system goes right alond with it.
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This is a text about an idea dreamed up by a pro-pedophilia psychologist. Abusers may buy it-a good way to identify them. One may as well buy a book about how to trap and cook a dinosaur- only the deluded would go for it.Come to think of it- is it possible the author is - - -delusional ? Why promote something that has utterly destroyed so many children ? The public pushers of this- scurrilous idea are- well- a group of people with very questionable- histories.
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