Carolyn Caffrey Gardner is Information Literacy Coordinator at California State University, Dominguez Hills; e-mail: [email protected]. Gabriel J. Gardner is Reference & Instructional Librarian at California State University, Long Beach; e-mail: [email protected]. ©2017 Carolyn Caffrey Gardner and Gabriel J. Gardner, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/...

The authors present characteristics of Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) proposed by Gardner as well as data, which may help to differentiate that syndrome with real psychological, physical and sexual abuse. The consequences of Gardner Syndrome for legal decisions in the court cases of child custody and the critique of this syndrome in forensic and psychiatric literature are also discussed, an...