My review of PAS and PA suggests there would be some difficulty answering these questions in the affirmative,". Achimovich, Lois. (2003). Parental Alienation Syndrome Revisited.

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After looking at these other theorists using the terms either PAS or Parental Alienation, Williams J. asks: "Is the methodology behind PAS and PA testable? Is their general acceptance of what PAS and/or PA mean within a profession or professions? Generally? My review of PAS and PA suggests there would be some difficulty answering these questions in the affirmative,".

He questions whether either concept -PAS or PA - is of much help in dealing with cases of alleged alienation as follows:

"There is little or no benefit brought to a dispute resolution and fact finding process whose goal is to focus on the "best interests" test by a diversion into the efficacy of a controversial psychiatric/social science term that has no common meaning in the psychiatric/ psychological/ social work fields."

And yet as Berns states:" As a rebuttal to allegations of child sexual abuse, for example, they are rhetorically elegant, using the allegation that the father sexually abused the child to establish the mother's unfitness as a parent. Allegations of PAS are, in this setting, so perfect that if PAS did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it. 33 (Her Courier)

Achimovich, Lois. (2003). Parental Alienation Syndrome Revisited. Paper presented at the Child Sexual Abuse: Justice Response or Alternative Resolution Conference convened by the Australian Institute of Criminology and held in Adelaide, 1-2 May 2003.

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