Notices

Notices: "To: PAS Network From: Richard Gardner People are continually asking me what they can do to help PAS families. Here are two things that can be done now.

1) Inter-rater reliability studies. PAS needs studies that will assess objectively, with statistical analysis, whether PAS is truly a syndrome. I profess that the syndrome does exist, and does so in accordance with the strictest medical/psychiatric definition of the term. Some critics claim that the syndrome does not exist, that it is merely a figment of my imagination. Inter-rater reliability studies are the best way to come to a definitive conclusion regarding this controversy. If any of you know of a graduate student looking for a research project, recommend such a study for the student's consideration. Those of you who supervise graduate students in university settings might consider such a study for a student. I myself cannot conduct such a study because of potential bias.

2) This is a big one: PAS needs a foundation, a foundation specifically devoted to the PAS and nothing else. PAS needs a foundation to do all the things that a foundation can do, things that individuals cannot do working independently. The ideal person to fund such a foundation would be someone who not only has the enormous amount of money necessary to fund it but who is also a victim of a spouse's PAS indoctrinations. Such a person will 'have been there' and knows personally the grief and suffering PAS causes. Keep this in mind in the course of your travels. Because PAS is so widespread--a problem of international scope--there must be some philanthropist, somewhere, who qualifies. Perhaps there are a few such individuals who would pool their resources. The people in the PAS Network are doers. They recognize that things don't just happen, that there must be people who make things happen. Accordingly, we must "