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    • GUARDIANSHIP & CONSERVATORSHIP
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      	Parental ALienation and the Judiciary Increasing numbers of cases are coming before the Courts where one parent feels displaced in relation to the children in the family. The syndrome, parental alienation (PAS),' as it is now called, is not a new one, but its importance is being highlighted in the United States as well as in the UK. Judges are often uncertain as to how to treat the situation where one parent seeks to make contact with the children following an estrangement, separation, or an unusually unpleasant and vicious divorce. [ 01/01/99  |  more info ]
      	The Consequences of Criminal Proceedings in New York State: A Guide for Criminal Defense Attorneys and Other Advocates for Persons with Criminal Records This Guide was developed in conjunction with an intensive training offered by the Civil Action Project at The Bronx Defenders. It is a comprehensive survey of the invisible punishments resulting from criminal proceedings in New York State, and it offers practical advice and strategies for mitigating these "collateral" consequences. It focuses in particular on the role of defenders. [ 10/31/04  |  more info ]
      	Understanding and Collaboratively Treating Parental Alieantion Syndrome Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) is a special case of postdivorce conflict in which one parent appears to go to great lengths, at times including making fictitious allegations of physical and/or sexual abuse, to turn a child(1) against the other parent. Dr. Richard Gardner first described PAS in an article and then later in a book and portions of another. (2) Earlier researchers had rioted similar processes in families (for example, the "medea complex" described by Wallerstein and Kelly in the late 1970s), and professionals working with divorcing families easily recognized the syndrome, sometimes described as brainwashing, presented by Gardner. That his "syndrome" was so readily adopted is less a testament to Dr. Gardner's "discovery" than to his conceptualizing a familiar type of highconflict divorcing family problem that is complex, perplexing, very resistant to change; and sometimes tragic. [ 08/15/05  |  more info ]
      	Mental Health Litigation Unit Mental Health Litigation Unit of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services provides counsel for indigent persons in all mental health proceedings (criminal & civil) and in "sexually dangerous person" commitment proceedings. [ 01/01/95  |  more info ]