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Thursday, Jul 22 2021

Parental Alienation Syndrome is a concept scientifically validated

Original posted by Garazi López de Aguileta
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Scientific Articles

  • Meier, J. S. (2020). US child custody outcomes in cases involving parental alienation and abuse allegations: what do the data show?. Journal of social welfare and family law, 42(1), 92-105.
  • Casas Vila, G. (2020). Parental Alienation Syndrome in Spain: opposed by the Government but accepted in the Courts. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 42(1). Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09649069.2019.1701923?journalCode=rjsf20
  • Lenore E. A. Walker EdD, Kristi L. Brantley MS & Justin A. Rigsbee MS. (2003). A Critical Analysis of Parental Alienation Syndrome and Its Admissibility in the Family Court. Journal of Child Custody, 1(2), 47-74. https://doi.org/10.1300/J190v01n02_03
  • Harman, J. J., Kruk, E., & Hines, D. A. (2018). Parental alienating behaviors: An unacknowledged form of family violence. Psychological Bulletin, 144(12), 1275–1299. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000175
  • Warshak, R. A. (2015). Ten parental alienation fallacies that compromise decisions in court and in therapy. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 46(4), 235–249. https://doi.org/10.1037/pro0000031
  • Warshak, R. A. (2020). When evaluators get it wrong: False positive IDs and parental alienation. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 26(1), 54-68. https://doi.org/10.1037/law0000216
  • Harman, J. J., & Lorandos, D. (2021). Allegations of family violence in court: How parental alienation affects judicial outcomes. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 27(2), 184–208. https://doi.org/10.1037/law0000301
  • Templer, K., Matthewson, M., Haines, J., & Cox, G. (2017). Recommendations for best practice in response to parental alienation: Findings from a systematic review. Journal of Family Therapy, 39(1), 103–122. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12137
  • Gordon, R. M., Stoffey, R., & Bottinelli, J. (2008). MMPI-2 findings of primitive defenses in alienating patients. American Journal of Family Therapy, 36(3), 211–228. https://doi.org/10.1080/01926180701643313

Explanation of the Post

he existence of the Parental Alienation Syndrome is not scientifically validated. Besides scientific articles demonstrating this, there are explicit declarations of scientific societies: “The American Psychological Association believes that all mental health practitioners as well as law enforcement officials and the courts must take any reports of domestic violence in divorce and child custody cases seriously. An APA 1996 Presidential Task Force on Violence and the Family noted the lack of data to support so-called “parental alienation syndrome”, and raised concern about the term’s use. However, we have no official position on the purported syndrome.”. Moreover, it states that “The syndrome has been dismissed by the American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association, and American Medical Association as lacking supporting empirical or clinical evidence and it is not included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or the International Classification of Diseases”.

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  1. Roberto Mezkia on July 28, 2021 at 18:47

    Hello: sorry, but you are wrong.

    The 1996 statement of one of the 56 APA divisións ends: “However, we have no official position on the purported syndrome.”, and not that you say (“Moreover, it states that …”) (https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2008/01/pas-syndrome).

    Now (2021), you can read by the APA theses papers in theirs journals (one of them J. Meier against)

    References:

    1.- Harman, J. J., Kruk, E., & Hines, D. A. (2018). Parental alienating behaviors: An unacknowledged form of family violence. Psychological Bulletin, 144(12), 1275–1299.

    https://bit.ly/3wup7yI     

    :

    2.- Warshak, R. A. (2015). Ten parental alienation fallacies that compromise decisions in court and in therapy. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 46(4), 235–249.

    https://bit.ly/2VgQPSh

    3.- Warshak, R. A. (2020). When evaluators get it wrong: False positive IDs and parental alienation. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 26(1), 54–68.

    https://bit.ly/3x63WCL

    4.- Harman, J. J., & Lorandos, D. (2021). Allegations of family violence in court: How parental alienation affects judicial outcomes. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 27(2), 184-208.

    https://bit.ly/2UTXAti

    Therefore, i hope that you will assume the new APA position on the Parental Alienation.

    Bye.

    OTHER SOURCES:
    
    1.- Harman, J. J., Kruk, E., & Hines, D. A. (2018). Parental alienating behaviors: An unacknowledged form of family violence. Psychological Bulletin, 144(12), 1275–1299.

    https://bit.ly/3wup7yI     

    2.- Warshak, R. A. (2015). Ten parental alienation fallacies that compromise decisions in court and in therapy. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 46(4), 235–249.

    https://bit.ly/2VgQPSh

    3.- Warshak, R. A. (2020). When evaluators get it wrong: False positive IDs and parental alienation. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 26(1), 54–68.

    https://bit.ly/3x63WCL

    4.- Harman, J. J., & Lorandos, D. (2021). Allegations of family violence in court: How parental alienation affects judicial outcomes. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 27(2), 184-208.

    https://bit.ly/2UTXAti

    • Gisela Redondo on July 29, 2021 at 15:28

      Thanks for sharing the articles, one of them indexed in JCR. As you can see, it doesn´t say that it exists but it complains that it is not acknowledged.

      • Roberto Mezkia on October 26, 2021 at 20:03 
        Abstract of that article: "Despite affecting millions of families around the world, parental alienation...", So yeah, it says it does exist
  2. Roberto Mezkia on October 26, 2021 at 20:38

    Hello: sorry but you are wrong:

    OTHER SOURCES:

    “Further, it is consistent with Gardner’s (1998) recommendation that high conflict cases of parental alienation classed as moderate or severe require a joint effort between the court and therapist/s. It would seem that despite the controversy that developed as a consequence of some of Gardner’s views (e.g. Houchin et al., 2012; Waldron and Joanis, 1996; Warshak, 2001), his suggestion of a combined approach to resolution
    of the problem is a sound one.”

      

    Templer, K., Matthewson, M., Haines, J., & Cox, G. (2017). Recommendations for best practice in response to parental alienation: Findings from a systematic review. Journal of Family Therapy, 39(1), 103–122. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12137

    ABSTRACT: … “The results showed strong support for Gardner’s definition of PAS.”

     

    Gordon, R. M., Stoffey, R., & Bottinelli, J. (2008). MMPI-2 findings of primitive defenses in alienating patients. American Journal of Family Therapy, 36(3), 211–228. https://doi.org/10.1080/01926180701643313

    https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2008-08116-004

    Bye

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