Course Description
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This program will demonstrate how, by use of decision trees, child custody and parenting plan evaluators can increase their competence and avoid common cognitive errors and biases when doing these evaluations. The presenters discuss a step-by-step approach for doing evaluations, provide rules and procedures for collecting, organizing, analyzing, and synthesizing the data, and making parenting plan recommendations.
7 CE credits/hours, 70 questions
Target Audience
Psychologists | School Psychologists | Marriage & Family Therapists | Mental Health Counselors | Social Workers
Learning Level
Intermediate
Learning Objectives
Discuss the common cognitive errors and biases to avoid when doing parenting plan and child custody evaluations.
Explain the use of decision trees to increase evaluator competence and avoid preventable errors in parenting plan and child custody evaluations.
Present a step-by-step approach for doing parenting plan and custody evaluations.
List rules and procedures for collecting data.
Delineate procedures for organizing the data.
Describe procedures for analyzing the data.
Demonstrate ways to synthesize the data.
Offer parenting plan recommendations – with samples.

Leslie Drozd, PhD, Nancy W. Olesen, PhD, & Michael A. Saini, PhD
Course curriculum
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Statement of Understanding (downloadable/printable)
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2
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"Parenting Plan & Child Custody Evaluations" - Final Exam Questions (downloadable/printable)
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Final Exam
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Evaluation Questionnaire
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