Category: Articles, Custody, Psychology/Psychiatry, Resources for Attorneys The Alienated Child in the Midst of a High Conflict Divorce: A New Approach to Parental Alienation Syndrome TASA ID: 1385 The alienation of a child from a parent following separation and divorce has drawn significant attention in custody disputes. The clinical presentations of the child's adamant rejection of a parent, which is generally accompanied by strong resistance or refusal to visit with the parent, was originally described by Richard Gardner in the 1980's as Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS). Richard A. Gardner proposed parental alienation syndrome based on his clinical experience with the children of divorcing parents. Read more
Category: Psychology/Psychiatry Sexual Abuse Evaluations in Young Children: Why It Takes an Expert to Determine If Children Are Telling the Truth or Fabricating Allegations of Sexual Abuse TASA ID: 1385 The frequency of false allegations of sexual abuse by children and adolescents is of signifcant legal and clinical importance. Many professionals in the field of child sexual abuse are more skeptical of child claims of sexual abuse than ever before. Research on false allegations and recantation of sexual abuse has produced signifcant evidence related to how and why children make false allegations. Read more
Category: Psychology/Psychiatry When Choosing a Forensic Psychiatric Expert . . . The difference between treating clinicians and forensic psychiatric experts TASA ID: 2437 Many psychiatrists who are neither forensically trained nor board certified in forensic psychiatry continue to offer themselves to attorneys as psychiatric "experts." Too oftenm such untrained "experts" do not have clear uynderstanding of the signifcant role disctinctions between functioning as treating clinicians and as independent forensic psychiatric experts. Read more
