WHAT IS FAMILY BRIDGES?Family Bridges has been designed to deal with children “whom courts and therapists have traditionally viewed as beyond help.”. These include three main types of severely alienated children, those who (1) reject the TP after divorce, (2) refuse and/or resist contact with a TP and (3) have a seriously strained relationship with …
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The Evidentiary Admissibility of ParentalAlienation Syndrome: Science, Law, and Policy. AbstractSince 1985, in jurisdictions all over the United States, fathers have been awarded sole custody of their children based on claims that mothers alienated these children due to a pathological medical syndrome called Parental Alienation Syndrome (“PAS”). Given that some such cases have involved stark …
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The Parental Alienation Syndrome, so named by Dr. Richard Gardner, is a distinctive family response to divorce in which the child becomes aligned with one parent and preoccupied with unjastified and / or exaggerated denigration of the other, target parent. In severe cases, the child’s once love-bonded relationship with rejected / target parent is destroyed. …
Creative Therapeutics, Inc., Cresskill, N.J. 07626, Richard A. Gardner, M.D. Since the publication of the second edition of my PAS book there have been many developments in this field.These developments have implications for dealing with PAS families, by both legal and mental health professionals. Inducing PAS in a child is a form of emotional abuse. …
