PAS’s diagnostic criteria for determining a child’s treatment focus on maternal legal actions, evaluating the mother for:

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Children’s Legal Rights Journal

 Evidentiary Admissibility of Parental Alienation Syndrome page 6 to  7 

Jennifer Hoult, J.D.

PAS’s diagnostic criteria for determining a child’s
treatment focus on maternal legal actions,
evaluating the mother for:
1. presence of severe psychopathology
prior to [marital] separation,
2. frequency of programming thoughts,  Evidentiary Admissibility of Parental Alienation Syndrome  7
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3. frequency of programming verbalizations,
4. frequency of exclusionary maneuvers,
5. frequency of complaints to police and
child protection services,
6. litigiousness,
7. episodes of hysteria,
8. frequency of violation of court orders,
9. success in manipulating the legal system
to enhance the programming, and
10. risk of intensification of programming if
granted primary custody.
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Excerpt last paragraph


"While legal coercion can motivate people to
change chosen behavior, there is no evidence that
it can cure medical disease.
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  It  is  perhaps  not
surprising that the scientific literature overwhelmingly reports that PAS treatment fails,
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reporting only three instances of successful treatment.
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 Furthermore, it is unclear how such
success can be measured. There is no evidence
that legal coercion can create love or respect,
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nor is there a way to distinguish genuine changes
of affection from charades feigned for survival.
Like prisoners of war and battered women, abused
children whose survival depends on placating their
abusers often feign submission or affection to
survive. PAS treatment’s reliance on legal coercion
indicates that PAS is chosen behavior, not
pathology."
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