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Improving PPE
satisfaction,
efficiency, and validity
through advance orientation
Benjamin
D. Garber, Ph.D.
Association of Family and Conciliation
Courts
11.13.2025 webinar
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The
math is simple:
- Anxiety corrupts
clear thinking.
- Custody
litigants who are not thinking
clearly cannot adequately
advocate for themselves and
their children.
- Structure
diminishes anxiety.
- Structures comes
in four forms: limits,
boundaries, roles, and routines.
- Advance
orientation (AO)
programming provides custody
litigants with structure that
diminishes anxiety.
- Research
spanning many fields finds that
when consumers of a service
participate in advance
orientation programming, the
service becomes more satisfying,
more effective, and more
efficient.
- Introducing DEFUSEdivorce.com,
planet earth's only advance
orientation for divorcing and
custody-litigating parents.
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PowerPoint
handout
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Garber, B.D., (in review
2025). Limits, boundaries,
roles, and routines: Focus on
structure in forensic
relationship intervention,
evaluation, and adjudication.
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Garber, B.D. and Deck, P.
(2025). Advance
orientation (AO) improves
efficacy, efficiency, and
consumer satisfaction:
“Preparing to Participate in a
Court-ordered Parenting Plan
Evaluation (PPE).” Journal
of the American Academy of
Matrimonial Lawyers, 38,
39-59.
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Garber, B.D. (2024). Why the
heck aren’t we doing this
already? Advance orientation
(AO) can improve the efficacy
and efficiency of
court-ordered family
evaluations and
interventions. Family
Transitions, 65:5,
403-408.
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Deck, P., Garber, B.D., and
Ray, A. (in press, 2026).
Advance Orientation (AO) in
Family Law: A Conceptual
Overview and Future Avenues
for Inquiry. Elgar Research
Handbook on Family Law and
Mental Health.
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Interested in reading
research from allied
fields that demonstrates
the efficacy of advance
orientation programming?
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