Issue Information

• Date: 01 April 2020
• Published date: 01 April 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/fcre.12435

FAMILY COURT REVIEW Volume 58 Number 2 April 2020

The Journal of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts

AFCC

Published in cooperation with the Center for

Children, Families and the Law of the Maurice

A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University

Editorial Note

April 2020 –

Barbara A. Babb and Marsha Kline Pruett

Special Issue: Parent-Child Contact Problems: Concepts, Controversies, & Conundrums

Guest Editors’ Introduction to the 2020 Special Issue on Parent–Child Contact Problems: Concepts, Controversies & Conundrums –

Barbara Jo Fidler

and Nicholas Bala

Concepts and Contexts

Parental Alienation: In Search of Common Ground For a More Differentiated Theory –

Janet R. Johnston and Matthew J. Sullivan

Parental Alienation and Misinformation Proliferation –

William Bernet

Methodological Challenges in Social Science: Making Sense of Polarized and Competing Research Claims –

Aaron Robb

Parental Alienation in U.S. Courts, 1985 to 2018 –

Demosthenes Lorandos

Ideology and Rhetoric Replace Science and Reason in Some Parental Alienation Literature and Advocacy: A Critique –

Madelyn S. Milchman,

Robert Geffner, and Joan S. Meier

Responses to Milchman, Geffner, and Meier

Response to “Ideology and Rhetoric Replace Science and Reason in Some Parental Alienation Literature and Advocacy: A Critique,” by

Milchman, Geffner, and Meier –

William Bernet

Dynamics, Not Diagnoses –

Benjamin D. Garber

Response to Milchman, Geffner, and Meier

Ideology and Rhetoric Replace Science and Reason in Some Parental Alienation Literature and

Advocacy: A Critique

–

Demosthenes Lorandos

Misdirection and Double Standards Fail to Clarify Controversial Issues in Social Science –

Aaron Robb

Putting Science and Reasoning Back Into the “Parental Alienation” Discussion: Reply to Bernet, Robb, Lorandos, and Garber –

Madelyn S. Milchman,

Robert Geffner, and Joan S. Meier

Case Evaluation and Response

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of Resist/Refuse Dynamics: Confi rmatory Bias and Abductive Inference in Child Custody Evaluations –

Benjamin D. Garber

Manipulation and Domestic Abuse in Contested Contact – Threats to Children’s Participation Rights –

Fiona Morrison, E. Kay M. Tisdall, and

Jane E. M. Callaghan

Gatekeeping by Allegations: An Examination of Verifi ed, Unfounded, and Fabricated Allegations of Child Maltreatment Within the Context of

Resist and Refusal Dynamics –

Michael Saini, Taina Laajasalo, and Stacey Platt

Professional Roles

Risks and Realities of Working With Alienated Children –

Richard A. Warshak

Children Resisting Contact with a Parent Due to Abuse, Alienation, or Other Causes: Can a Proactive Role for Lawyers Contribute to Better

Outcomes? –

Jacqueline Campbell

Interventions

Trauma-Informed Interventions in Parent–Child Contact Cases –

Robin Deutsch, Leslie Drozd, and Chioma Ajoku

We’re Still Taking X-Rays but the Patient is Dying: What Keeps us from Intervening More Quickly in Resist-Refuse Cases? –

Lyn R. Greenberg and Robert

A. Schnider

Responding to Severe Parent–Child Rejection Cases Without a Parentectomy: A Blended Sequential Intervention Model and the Role of the

Courts –

Shely Polak, Tom Altobelli, and Linda Popielarczyk

The Application of the Polyvagal Theory to High Confl ict Co-Parenting Cases –

Rebecca

Bailey

,

Deborah

Dana

,

Elizabeth

Bailey

,

and

Frank Davis

Innovative Systemic Responses

Innovative Programs in Israel for Prevention & Responding to Parental Alienation: Education, Early Identifi cation and Timely, Effective

Intervention –

Philip Marcus

An Interdisciplinary Case Management Protocol for Child Resistance or Refusal Dynamics –

Francine Cyr, Karine Poitras, and Élisabeth Godbout

Conclusion

Concepts, Controversies And Conundrums Of “Alienation:” Lessons Learned In A Decade And Refl ections On Challenges Ahead –

Barbara Jo Fidler and Nicholas Bala

Student Notes

Let’s Make a Brand New Start of it in Old New York: Using Mediation to Resolve Open Adoption Disputes

–

Christina M. Irrera

New York State of Mind: Parental Incarceration and Children’s Visitation in New York State –

Mia Anne Polizzotto

An Interdisciplinary Journal

FAMILY COURT REVIEW

Volume 58 Number 2

April 2020

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