Parental Alienation in Divorce Judgments

Parental Alienation Syndrome in Italian legal judgments: an exploratory study.

The present study highlights the characteristics of separated families in Italy for whom Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) has been diagnosed during court custody evaluations. The study analyzed the psychological reports of 12 court-appointed expert evaluations of families for whom PAS had been diagnosed. Twelve evaluations that did not receive the PAS diagnosis served as a control group. A sp...

Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation: Research Reviews

VAWnet is a project of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence. “Given the inherent problems with even the ‘reformulated’ concept of PA, and also the fact that (1) courts and evaluators are unlikely to abandon the concept anytime soon, and (2) alienating behavior is indeed a factual reality, most often inflicted by abusive fathers, this paper offers [a] brief 7 outline of an approach ...

A Historical Perspective on Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation

Parental alignments and rejection: an empirical study of alienation in children of divorce.

This study of family relationships after divorce examined the frequency and extent of child-parent alignments and correlates of children's rejection of a parent, these being basic components of the controversial idea of "parental alienation syndrome." The sample consisted of 215 children from the family courts and general community two to three years after parental separation. The findings indi...

The Parental Alienation Syndrome:

This study analyzed sixteen cases which appeared to meet Dr. Richard Gardner 's criteria for parental alienation syndrome as set forth in his 1987 book. Thesecases showed a wide diversity of characteristics but Gardner's criteria were useful in differentiating these cases from other postdivorce difficulties. Traditional interventions were ineffective in altering Ule alienation. Gardner (1985) h...