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Critical Bibliography on Parental Alienation Syndrome Last updated June 2016 ARTICLES and BOOKS: Adams, M.A., “Framing Contests in Child Custody Disputes: Parental Alienation Syndrome, Child Abuse, Gender, and Fathers’ Rights,” Family Law Quarterly, 40:2 (Summer 2006), 315-338 American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Violence in the Family, REPORT ON VIOLENCE AND THE FAMILY at 12 (1996) Bancroft, Silverman & Ritchie, THE BATTERER AS PARENT: ADDRESSING THE IMPACT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ON FAMILY DYNAMICS, 2ND EDITION (Sage 2012), 159, 168-173, 254-255, 260-261. Berg, R., “Parental Alienation Analysis, Domestic Violence and Gender Bias in Minnesota Courts,” Law and Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice, Volume 5, Winter 2011 Bruch, C.S., “Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation: Getting It Wrong in Child Custody Cases,” Family Law Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 3, Fall 2001 Clemente, M. & Padillo-Racero, D. “Facts Speak Louder Than Words: Science Versus the Pseudoscience of PAS” Children and Youth Services Review, Vol 56, September 2015, 177-184. But see Bernet, W., Cristina, M. & Korosi, S. “Yes, Children Are Susceptible to Manipulation: Commentary on Article By Clemente and Padilla-Racero” Children and Youth Services Review, Vol 56, September 2015, 135-138. Dalton, C., Drozd, L., & Wong, F. (2006). “Navigating Custody & Visitation Evaluations in Cases with Domestic Violence: A Judge’s Guide” (Rev. ed.). Reno, NV: National Council of Juvenile & Family Court Judges. Erickson, N. “Fighting False Allegations of Parental Alienation Raised as Defenses to Valid Claims of Abuse” in Domestic Violence, Abuse, and Child Custody (Mo Hannah and Barry Goldstein, eds. 2010) Faller, K.C., “The Parental Alienation Syndrome: What Is It and What Data Support It?” Child Maltreatment, Vol. 3, No. 2, May 1998, 100-115

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Critical Bibliography on Parental Alienation Syndrome Last updated June 2016 Fink, P. “Parental Alienation Syndrome” in Domestic Violence, Abuse, and Child Custody (Mo Hannah and Barry Goldstein, eds. 2010) Hoult, J., “The Evidentiary Admissibility of Parental Alienation Syndrome: Science, Law, and Policy,” 26 Children’s Legal Rights Journal 1, Spring 2006 Meier, J., “A Historical Perspective on Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation,” Journal of Child Custody, Symposium on Domestic Violence and Custody, 6:3-4, 232-257 (July-December 2009) Meier, J., Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation: A Research Review, published by VAWnet, a project of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence/Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence (September, 2013), available at http://www.vawnet.org/Assoc_Files_VAWnet/AR_PASUpdate.pdf. Meier, J., “Domestic Violence, Child Custody, and Child Protection: Understanding Judicial Resistance and Imagining the Solutions,” A.U. J. Gender, Soc. Pol. & Law, 11:2 (2003) Meier, J., “Getting Real About Abuse and Alienation: A Response to Drozd and Olesen,” Journal of Child Custody, Symposium on Domestic Violence and Custody, 7:219-252 (2010) Meier, J. "The Misuse of Parental Alienation Syndrome in Custody Suits," Violence Against Women in Families and Relationships (Evan Stark and Eve Buzawa, eds., 2009) Neustein, A. & Lesher, M. FROM MADNESS TO MUTINY: WHY MOTHERS ARE RUNNING FROM THE FAMILY COURTS AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT (Northeastern University Press: 2005) Neustein, A. & Lesher, M., “Evaluating PAS: A Critique of Elizabeth Ellis’s ‘A Stepwise Approach to Evaluating Children for PAS’” Journal of Child Custody, Symposium on Domestic Violence and Custody, 6:3-4, 322-325 (July–December 2009) Petition of Claudine Dombrowski et al, before to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, available at http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/media/IACHR_web_petition.pdf

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Critical Bibliography on Parental Alienation Syndrome Last updated June 2016 Ragland, E.R., & Field, H. (2003), “Parental Alienation Syndrome: What Professionals Need to Know,” Update Newsletter, 16(6). Alexandria, VA: National District Attorneys’ Association’s American Prosecutors’ Research Institute (APRI) www.ndaa.org/publications/newsletters/update_volume_16_number_6_2003.html Smith, R. and Coukos, P., “Fairness and Accuracy in Evaluations of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse in Custody Determinations,” The Judges’ Journal, Fall 1997 Thoennes, N., Pearson, J., & Tjaden, P., “Allegations of Sexual Abuse in Custody and Visitation Disputes,” Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, Denver, CO (1988) Thomas, R. & Richardson, J., “Parental Alienation Syndrome, 20 Years On and Still Junk Science,” 54 No. 3 Judges’ J 22 (Summer 2015) Wood, C.,“The Parental Alienation Syndrome: A Dangerous Aura of Reliability,” 27 Loy.L.A.L.Rev. 1367 (1994) “Good News: APA Rejects Parental Alienation Disorder” Domestic Violence Report, Vol. 16, No. 6 88 (August/September 2011). Leadership Council on Child Abuse and Intepersonal violence Consensus Statement on Parental Alienation Syndrome and the DSM-V, unpublished manuscript, on file with DV LEAP.

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