Books by PASG Members
Many PASG members are faculty members of universities in the United States and other countries. They have engaged in extensive clinical work and research regarding parental alienation. As a group, they have published hundreds of scholarly papers, book chapters, and books, some of which are listed here. The inclusion of any book on this website does not confer approval of the book or its author by the PASG Board of Directors.
Benchbook In The Behavioral Sciences: Psychiatry-Psychology-Social Work
Demosthenes Lorandos, Terence W. Campbell | English, 2005
Thousands of judges, attorneys, and court personnel have to deal with experts in the behavioral sciences every day. Expert testimony from behavioral scientists (psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers) is the fastest growing area of expertise in American courts. The U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Daubert, Joiner, and Kumho Tire have profoundly altered the rules of evidence regarding expert testimony. Recent research demonstrates that the judges, attorneys, and court personnel required to implement those changes have little understanding of how to do this with the behavioral sciences. The Federal Rules of Evidence have just been amended to reflect the changes wrought by the Daubert, Joiner, Kumho Tire trilogy. And yet there are no guidelines, practice books, or judicial decision-making manuals that even remotely speak to “gatekeeping” responsibilities with the behavioral sciences. Lorandos and Campbell provide immediate access to authoritative information and immediate decision-making tools for judges, attorneys, and court personnel. It is also a comprehensive text with immediate utility as a decision-making tool. Extensively researched in law and the sciences, Benchbook in Behavioral Sciences provides up-to-date legal and scientific data to aid judges, attorneys, and court personnel in their daily decision-making with expert reports and testimony.
Divorce and Disengagement: Patterns of Fatherhood within and Beyond Marriage
Edward Kruk | English, 2003
This book’s purpose is to better portray divorced fatherhood and to provide family practitioners and policymakers with an empirically based understanding of the impact of divorce on non-custodial fathers, and of fathers’ disengagement from their children after divorce.
Elusive Innocence: Survival Guide for the Falsely Accused
Dean Tong | English, 2002
Elusive Innocence assists parents wrongly accused of abuse and their attorneys, as well as child protective investigators during their intake assessments, therapists, and judges. From actual case studies including the author’s, to chapters on the accused, accuser, alleged child victim, and agencies; to a detailed road map on how to counter unfounded and false child abuse and/or domestic violence allegations; to borderline personality disorder and parental alienation; and to sections on how to choose the right lawyer, Daubert and Frye criteria, and “Consistent With What, Exactly?” Elusive Innocence is the all-in-one handbook every parent, defense attorney, prosecutor, judge, therapist, social worker, teacher, and police officer should read.
Creating a successful parenting plan: A step-by-step guide for the care of children of divided families
A. Jayne Major | English, 2002
Creating a Successful Parenting Plan is an award-winning guide on how to successfully create a comprehensive parenting plan for parental custody in court. Often parents vying for custody do not know what to ask for or the important legal terms in order to make a solid case, and many cannot afford legal representation. This guide teaches parents everything they need to know about creating a solid case, including key legal terminology and specific, valid requests which the court can act upon.
The Fragile Alliance: An Orientation to Psychotherapy of the Adolescent
John E. Meeks, William Bernet | English, 2001
A discussion of the basic facts and skills required for therapists who work with troubled adolescents. This edition is more succinct, but includes new information and updated references. It covers important contemporary issues, such as juvenile violence and adolescent sex offenders.
Cross Examining Experts in the Behavioral Sciences
Terence Campbell, Demosthenes Lorandos | English, 2001
Cross Examining Experts in the Behavioral Sciences provides step-by-step guidance on how to refute behavioral scientists’ conjecture and speculation to ensure favorable rulings on Daubert, Kuhmo Tire and Frye standards. This set integrates hundreds of questioning strategies and actual questions to help you save time preparing your cases. It helps you keep pace with the fastest growing area of expert witness work with: Demonstrations on how to examine and challenge the expertise of mental health experts and the use of psychological tests Examinations of both the scientific research and the legal aspects behind a mental health expert’s testimony.
The Warmth Dimension: Foundations of Parental Acceptance-Rejection Theory
Ronald Rohner | English, 2000
This thought-provoking study is about love — the kind of love that parents can give or withhold from their children. The warmth dimension of parenting is characterized by parental acceptance at one end and by parental rejection at the other. This work examines the antecedents, consequences, and correlates of these phenomena in the United States and across many cultures. A vital question is posed: What gives some children the capacity to cope with perceived parental rejection more effectively than most children? The problematic relationship between perceived parental rejection and child abuse and neglect is also discussed. The author breaks new ground by offering a theoretical foundation posited in his parental acceptance-rejection theory (PARTheory) for the study of these and other issues.
In addition to summarizing national, international, and cross-cultural comparative (holocultural) data collected by researchers over half a century, the book lays out PARTheory’s epistemological assumptions and postulates. The Warmth Dimension offers valuable insights for multidisciplinary audiences in academic, research, and practitioner-oriented settings. Raising many important but heretofore unanswered questions, this book contributes substantially toward a common conceptualization and vocabulary for the many disciplines dealing with families and children in jeopardy of child maltreatment.
Stalking the Soul
Marie-France Hirigoyen | English, 2000
Emotional abuse exists all around us—in families and work. Stalking the Soul is a call to recognize and understand emotional abuse and, most importantly, overcome it. Sophisticated and accessible, it is vital reading for victims and health professionals.
Child Custody: Practice Standards, Ethical Issues, and Legal Safeguards for Mental Healthprofessionals
Robert Henley Woody | English, 2000
Essential reading for any mental health professional who is currently involved in custody cases as well as those who are considering work in the family law arena. The author uses his unique perspective as both a psychologist and attorney to delineate standards for practice when providing services to children and families when there are custody disputes. He describes the ethical issues, legal risks, and appropriate safeguards for providing services in child custody cases and defines the core areas for custody evaluations, including: child development, family relations, parenting skills, psychopathology, family systems and dysfunction, and the ruling-out of child abuse. The author stresses the importance of clarifying professional roles and functions. Specialized intervention and assessment strategies are presented as well as management issues, legal concerns, and guidelines for testimony. Includes over 100 valuable summary guidelines and caution. This is also a valuable resource for judges and attorneys who must evaluate the extent to which testimony by mental health practitioners is ethical, appropriate, and consistent with accepted practice standards. Also contains useful information for divorced and divorcing parents.
They Are My Children, Too: A Mother’s Struggle for Her Sons
Catherine Meyer | English, 1999
A harrowing and heartbreaking true story of international child abduction by the wife of the former British ambassador to the United States. This book is Catherine Meyer’s page-turning, play-by-play account of a living nightmare, the story of the determination of one woman fighting for her children and of the inadequacy of current international laws against child abduction, which fail to protect either parents or children against the occurrence of this kind of tragedy. In the process of pleading internationally for the right to be with her children, Meyer met and married British diplomat Christopher Meyer, providing a happy turn-of-events, if not quite a happy ending, to this story.
Smoke and Mirrors: The Devastating Effect of False Sexual Abuse Claims
Terence W. Campbell | English, 1998
Smoke and Mirrors: The Devastating Effect of False Sexual Abuse Claims is an uncompromising examination of how false allegations originate, gather momentum, and too often culminate by ripping apart the lives of innocent people. Dr. Terence Campbell, a nationally recognized authority in the area of forensic psychology, passionately debates how false allegations of sexual abuse can occur anywhere to anyone.
The Power of Two: Secrets to a Strong and Loving Marriage
Susan Heitler | English, 1997
This book details the communication and conflict-resolution skills that happy couples use to deal with differences. Psychologist Susan Heitler clarifies the basics of collaborative dialogue and shows how these techniques can be applied to even the most sensitive issues in ways that respond to both partners’ needs and help to strengthen their relationship. Use this book to learn strategies for making decisions together, resolving conflicts, recovering after upsets, and converting difficulties into opportunities for growth.
Mediation and Conflict Resolution in Social Work and Human Services
Edward Kruk | English, 1997
This timely collection written from a social work perspective includes original chapters by leading experts in specific fields of mediation and conflict resolution. Each chapter examines a field of practice, describes the actual mediation/conflict resolution process, considers current debates and research, and provides alternatives to mediation. Gender, race, class, and cultural diversity issues are integrated throughout the text, with a separate chapter addressing mediation and multicultural reality.
Parenthood: Its Psychology & Psychopathology
E. James Anthony, Therese Benedek | English, 1970
This volume presents multiple perspectives on parenthood: ethnologists look at the biology of parenthood, anthropologists discuss the diverse methods of child rearing, psychologists and psychoanalysts examine the process of becoming a parent and how parental pathology affects child rearing.
Ashes to Ashes, Families to Dust: False Accusations of Child Abuse: A Roadmap for Survivors
Dean Tong | English, 1996
In 1995 there were over 2 million unfounded reports of child abuse and neglect in America. Has our child “protection” system become itself a kind of family abuse industry? Are legitimate abuse complaints neglected due to a plethora of false accusations? Where would you turn for bona fide help if wrongly accused of child abuse? How would you disprove abuse that never happened in the first place? Can your attorney navigate your case through a web of social agency and courtroom procedures and practices? Ashes To Ashes, Families To Dust will answer these questions and more. False accusations of child abuse debase and demean the innocent adult and create harm for the very children that laws were designed to protect. All social service libraries, social work library schools, and public library systems should have this title available for both those who hope to dedicate themselves to the genuine problems of child abuse, and the equally severe problems of those wrongfully accused of such a despicable practice.
The Custody Evaluation Handbook: Research Based Solutions & Applications
Barry Bricklin Ph.D. | English, 1995
Joint custody. Same-sex custody. Young children with the mother. Which is the best arrangement? Unfortunately, for those who seek a trustworthy solution, research has proven that there is no single best arrangement for all children. This timely volume, however, does offer a practical and realisic methodology with which to confront the challenging and often confusing issues facing the custody evaluator. The Custody Evaluation Handbook offers a helpful model for evaluating and assigning weight to the mountains of disparate information accumulated during a custody evaluation. The book advocates for a test-based approach that measures how successful each parent actually is at the job of parenting. The book describes numerous tests and tools for eliciting reliable information from both children and parents. The author emphasizes obtaining measurements from the involved child. Parent tests are designed to reflect the effectiveness with which a parent responds to typical childcare situations, and the degree to which a parent truly knows — and can satisfy the needs of — a particular child. Clearly spelling out the targets of a truly comprehensive and reliable evaluation, The Custody Evaluation Handbook will be a valuable book for custody evaluators and marriage and family therapists, as well as other involved mental health professionals.
Child Mental Health and the Law
Barry Nurcombe, David F. Partlett | English, 1994
The legal aspects of child mental health have changed in recent years, yet many who deal professionally with disturbed children are ill informed about the rights and responsibilities of minors. Child Mental Health and the Law addresses the need for a comprehensive, up-to-date text that describes the evolution of child mental health law and the relevance of the law to the child mental health clinician. Separate chapters deal with the legal issues presented by custody disputes, accusations of abuse and neglect, special education, civil liability suits, juvenile delinquency, and the voluntary and involuntary treatment of minors. Also included are sections on malpractice and the rights of institutionalized children. The authors, one a psychiatrist and developmental researcher, one a legal scholar, pay special attention to the role of the clinician as expert witness in court cases, and to the relationships (too often poor) between mental health professionals, attorneys, and judges. As the authors show, there has been little effective communication between those who study child development and those who make laws to regulate children’s welfare. or these professionals, the book provides a clear, jargon-free description of the scientific status of psychology and psychiatry in orderto help them in their interpretation of the research findings and expert testimony.
The Dictionary of Family Psychology and Family Therapy
S. Richard Sauber, Luciano L'Abate, Gerald R. Weeks, William L. Buchanan | English, 1993
As the study of the family has expanded, the need for an up-to-date volume that brings together and defines major salient words, phrases and concepts has similarly grown. The updated edition of this unique resource provides an expanded yet compact and handy reference for all practitioners, researchers and students in the fields of family psychology and psychotherapy.
Each entry includes a definition of the term, an example of its use, the origin of the term, an early source using the term and, if pertinent, a recent source. `Borrowed’ terms from other fields such as family law, sex therapy, clinical child psychology and group psychology are also included.
Don’t Blame Me, Daddy: False Accusations of Child Sexual Abuse
Dean Tong | English, 1992
This book explains how false allegations of child sexual abuse may occur in the context of custody battles in divorce cases. The author, Dean Tong, M.Sc., is a forensic trial consultant and expert witness whose work and practice concentrates on high-conflict divorces, child custody battles, and child sexual abuse cases. He has testified in multiple criminal and civil courts regarding best practice forensic child interviews, child protective investigations, parental alienation, and sexual deviancy/interest testing.