Breakout 7A | Why the heck aren't we doing this already? Advance or orientation (AO) can improve satisfaction, efficiency, and efficacy in PPEs

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Nursing, medicine, dentistry and other allied fields have produced 50 years of research documenting the fact that when consumers of a service participate in an ADVANCE ORIENTATION to the service, the service becomes more satisfying, effective, and efficient. This presentation introduces advance orientation programming to family law. Programming now available at DEFUSEdivorce.com will be used to illustrate the value of advance orientation to custody litigants. Research now underway to document these benefits will be presented. 

Learning objectives:

• Participants will understand the nature, benefits, and process of advance orientation.
• Participants will become familiar with the empirically demonstrated benefits of advance orientation in allied fields.
• Participants will better understand how advance orientation can make parenting plan evaluation and similar court-ordered activities more satisfying, more effective, and more efficient with trickle down benefits including fewer board complaints, less aversion to forensic work among mental health providers, less stress and lower costs, and greater benefit to children.

Speaker: Dr. Benjamin D. Garber, Ph.D, Family Law Consulting, PLLC, Hollis, NH

Opinions and positions stated by presenters of MoBarCLE programs are those of the presenters and not necessarily those of The Missouri Bar. This program is intended as information for lawyers in Missouri, in conjunction with other research they deem necessary, in the exercise of their independent judgment.