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16 J. Child Custody 1 (2019)

handle is hein.journals/wjcc16 and id is 1 raw text is: JOURNAL OF CHILD CUSTODY 2019, VOL. 16, NO. 1, 1-6 Routledge https://doi.org/10.1080/15379418.2019.1609384 Taylor&FrancisGroup Misperceptions and misapplications of research in family law cases: Myths of Parental Alienation Syndrome and implanted false memories Morgan Shaw Professional Clinical and Forensic Services, Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma, San Diego, California, USA ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY This introduction highlights the need for a special issue in the Received 15 March 2019 Journal of Child Custody on the misconceptions and misappli- Accepted 15 March 2019 cations of research within the family law arena. First, an exam- ination of why these topic areas are relevant is conducted KEYWORDS includinganoverviewofthetypesoffalseassumptionsand Child custody evaluations; false memories; family law; biases that are still very much present within the family legal parental alienation; PAS system and child custody evaluations, and how they have an ongoing negative impact on the lives of children and families. Then, this introduction introduces and outlines the different ways that the articles included in this first of the double spe- cial issue address the misconceptions contributing to faulty practice, including false memories, and provide a critical examination of the different ways that parental alienation is assessed and treated. Both issues within this two-part special issue present articles that clearly identify better and more appropriate directions for future research in order to strengthen child custody evaluations and the family law sys- tern as a whole. If you were to ask for a consensus among experienced child custody eval- uators about whether the concept of 'Parental Alienation Syndrome' (PAS; Gardner, 1992, 1998) is generally accepted and used in the course of con- ducting child custody evaluations today, the majority of them would likely state that PAS is not a validated concept that can be admitted into court and thus not utilized. While there is still a small subset of professionals who are today still explicitly pushing the concept of PAS (or Parental Alienation Disorder as it later became known, PAD; Bernet, 2008), the more concerning aspect is the much larger group of researchers and practi- tioners who are utilizing the same problematic core concepts and recom- mendations laid out by Gardner (see Sandoval & Geffner, 2019 for a review), but under a different cover of terminology. More recently, these CONTACT Morgan Shaw MorganS@lVATcenters.org 10065 Old Grove Road, Suite 101, San Diego, CA 92131, USA. C 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC

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