Amaya-Jackson, L., & Everson, M.D. (1996, July). Book Reviews: Protocols for the Sex-Abuse Evaluation. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 35 (7), 966-967.

Amaya-Jackson, L., & Everson, M.D. (1996, July). Book Reviews: Protocols for the Sex-Abuse Evaluation. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 35 (7), 966-967.

Lisa Amaya-Jackson, M.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Director of  Child & Adolescent Trauma Treatment Services at Duke University, and Mark D. Everson, Ph.D., Clinical Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Director of the Program on Childhood Trauma & Maltreatment at University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, reviewed Gardner's book Protocols for the Sex-Abuse Evaluation for the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry . 

EXCERPT: "Bias can be noted in the author's attempts to discredit a child's allegations by resorting to narrow, often oversimplified notions of how sexually abused children are supposed to behave."  While Gardner discusses the importance of evaluators being neutral and objective, he conveys "a strong bias that the overwhelming majority of allegations, especially in custody-related cases, are false and that the assessment procedures the author advocates are slanted to arrive at such a conclusion." 

Amaya-Jackson and Everson (1996) consider Gardner's system for detecting sexual abuse in children to be "seriously flawed." They conclude:  "This book can perhaps best be described as a recipe for finding allegations of sexual abuse false, under the guise of clinical and scientific objectivity. One suspects that it will be a bestseller among defense attorneys."
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