Staff did not know if their request to the county attorney's office to petition the court for a court order to observe/ interview the children would be filed by the county attorney, and/or if filed, granted by the court. Considering child protection's mental model shaped from past experience (to not get court orders granted which they had requested in the past), child protection staff utilized a workaround/adaptation to their approach used with the children and family in order to engage and assess the safety of the sibling children, contributing to staff observing/interviewing the sibling children two weeks before the investigation closed.