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Workshop 53: Relative Plausibility and Inference to the Best Explanation in Child Custody Cases
This workshop will articulate an operational model for best interests of the child tasks and objectives, then demonstrate how to organize data into an explanation-based theories of components and the totality of the case. Five explanation-based reasoning models will be presented: (1) The Story Model; (2) Scenario (Anchored Narrative) Theory; (3) Hybrid (Argumentation & Explanation) Theory; (4) Narrative Coherence Theory; and (5) Relative Plausibility and Inference to the Best Explanation.

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* 1. Based on the content of this session, I am able to: (1=Strongly disagree, 5=Strongly agree)

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1. Learn an operational definition of the best interests of the child standard into tasks and objectives that help organize evaluation approaches and analysis of the data.
2. Learn the outlines of five explanation-based reasoning models that can be used to develop theories and how these theories can inform recommendations, as well as examination and cross-examination procedures.

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* 2. Please rate presenter: Milfred Dale, PhD, JD (1=Poor, 5=Excellent)

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Level of knowledge and expertise
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Maintained my interest
Was responsive to questions, comments and opinions

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* 3. The content of the presentation was consistent with the abstract in the conference brochure

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* 4. Please rate this session presentation overall (1=Poor, 5=Excellent)

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* 5. How much did you learn as a result of this CE program? (1=Very little, 5=Great deal)

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* 6. Information presented in this session reflected the most current evidence on this topic (1=Disagree, 5=Agree)

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* 7. How useful was the content of this CE program for your practice or other professional development (1=Not useful, 5=Extremely useful)

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* 8. Additional Comments

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