Dr. Ira Turkat

Dr. Ira Turkat

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Dr. Ira Turkat has published over 100 scholarly articles, book chapters and books. His contributions have been translated into numerous foreign languages.

Some representative publications of Ira Turkat include:

Case Formulation

Turkat, I.D. (Ed.) (1985)  Behavioral Case Formulation.  New York: Plenum Publishing/Springer.

Turkat, I.D. & Maisto, S.A. (1985)   Application of the experimental method to the formulation and modification of personality disorders. In D.H. Barlow (Ed.), Clinical Handbook of Psychological Disorders (pp. 503-570).  New York:  Guilford Press. 

Turkat, I.D. (1990)   The Personality Disorders: A Psychological Approach to Clinical Management. New York: Pergamon/Allyn & Bacon.

Turkat, I.D. (2014)  An historical perspective on the impact of case formulation.  Behavior Therapist, 37, 180-188.

Family Law

Turkat, I.D. (2002)  Parental Alienation Syndrome: A review of critical issues.  Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, 18, 131-176.

Turkat, I.D. (2005)  False allegations of parental alienation.  American Journal of Family Law, 19, 15-19.

Turkat, I.D. (2016) Harmful effects of child-custody evaluations on children. Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association, 52, 152-158.

Turkat, I.D. (2021) Why judges should not permit child custody evaluations.  American Journal of Family Law, 34, 115-118.