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Police Administration, Procedures and Practice | Forensic Psychology | Applied and developmental psychology | Criminology | Psychology | Memory and attention | Forensic psychology | Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development | Applied and developmental psychology not elsewhere classified | Clinical Social Work Practice |
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The attrition of Indigenous and non-Indigenous child sexual abuse cases in two Australian jurisdictions.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 2017
DOI: 10.1037/LAW0000119
Consistency amongst pairs: How consistent are child co-witnesses with one another?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-05-2023
DOI: 10.1111/LCRP.12243
Abstract: When multiple children are asked about the same event, the consistency of their reports may be used as a heuristic for credibility. Little research has considered how consistent child co‐witnesses are likely to be. In this study, we explored how likely child co‐witnesses were to report the same details from a mutually experienced event. Pairs of children participated in an educational science event during which the target attempted to coax the children into breaking preestablished rules for the session (i.e., commit transgressions). Children were in idually interviewed about their experience on two subsequent occasions. Co‐witnesses tended to be quite inconsistent: 32%–55% of all details recalled were only mentioned by one co‐witness. Various factors were associated with co‐witness consistency, including delay before the interview, centrality of details recalled, and children's age and forthcomingness. The findings indicate that inconsistency between co‐witnesses reflects a natural memory phenomenon, and that practitioners should be cautious of using co‐witness consistency as an indicator of credibility.
The ability of adults with limited expressive language to engage in open-ended interviews about personal experiences
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-08-2022
Deficient cognitive control fuels children’s exuberant false allegations
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2014
DOI: 10.1016/J.JECP.2013.08.013
Abstract: In eyewitness studies as in actual investigations, a minority of children generate numerous false (and sometimes incredulous) allegations. To explore the characteristics of these children, we reinterviewed and administered a battery of tasks to 61 children (ages 4-9 years) who had previously participated in an eyewitness study where a man broke a "germ rule" twice when he tried to touch them. Performance on utilization, response conflict (Luria tapping), and theory of mind tasks predicted the number of false reports of touching (with age and time since the event controlled) and correctly classified 90.16% of the children as typical witnesses or exuberant (more than 3) false reporters. Results of a factor analysis pointed to a common process underlying performance on these tasks that accounted for 49% of the variability in false reports. Relations between task performance and testimony confirmed that the mechanisms underlying occasional intrusions are different from those that drive persistent confabulation and that deficient cognitive control fuels young children's exuberant false reports.
Narrative practice may foster comfort but not enhance cognition in adult witness interviews about a mock sexual assault
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-07-2020
How Do Interviewers and Children Discuss Individual Occurrences of Alleged Repeated Abuse in Forensic Interviews?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-03-2013
DOI: 10.1002/ACP.2920
Because she's one who listens: children discuss disclosure recipients in forensic interviews.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 28-07-2013
Abstract: The current study examined investigative interviews using the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Investigative Interview Protocol with 204, five- to thirteen-year-old suspected victims of child sexual abuse. The analyses focused on who children told, who they wanted (or did not want) to tell and why, their expectations about being believed, and other general motivations for disclosure. Children’s spontaneous reports as well as their responses to interviewer questions about disclosure were explored. Results demonstrated that the majority of children discussed disclosure recipients in their interviews, with 78 children (38%) explaining their disclosures. Only 15 children (7%) mentioned expectations about whether recipients would believe their disclosures. There were no differences between the types of information elicited by interviewers and those provided spontaneously, suggesting that, when interviewed in an open-ended, facilitative manner, children themselves produce informative details about their disclosure histories. Results have practical implications for professionals who interview children about sexual abuse.
Edible Insect Farming
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: 03-05-2023
Responding to orphanage trafficking from an informationgathering perspective
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2021
DOI: 10.1016/J.CHIABU.2021.105222
Abstract: Estimates suggest that close to 3 million institutionalized children internationally have some family to whom they could go home. A proportion of these children is recruited from their communities under false pretenses and has false documentation that describes them as legal orphans. The orphanages where they live exploit them on the basis of their orphanhood. These children are known as paper orphans. The aim of the current article is to provide a profile of their origins and networks based on current available evidence, from an investigative interviewing perspective. Increased discussion and research of this problem will assist in supporting efforts towards reunification of children with families, investigations by law enforcement into orphanages, and successful prosecution of orphanage trafficking. The article provides an overview of the orphanage trafficking context, followed by a comparison of orphanage trafficking victims with other child trafficking victims from the perspective of investigative needs. Investigative needs are outlined with respect to two primary groups who would interview paper orphans and other involved parties (e.g., birth parents, orphanage staff)-law enforcement and reunification officers. In the final section of the article, we encourage further research on orphanage trafficking and provide initial guidance for interviewing in this unique context. This paper serves as a step to raise further awareness of paper orphans, orphanage trafficking, and the specific characteristics of their cases that affect research and planning into how to identify and interview them and others involved.
She Wanted to Know the Full Story: Children's Perceptions of Open Versus Closed Questions
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-01-2019
Abstract: The current study explored children’s perceptions of open and closed questions in an interview setting. Children aged 7–12 ( n = 83) years watched a short film and were questioned about it by an interviewer who asked only open questions and an interviewer who asked only closed questions (counterbalanced). A third interviewer subsequently invited perceptions of each interview by asking children to compare the interviews on 10 attributes (e.g., length, perceived interviewer interest). Children’s comparisons on each of the 10 attributes were analyzed quantitatively and their responses to the follow-up questions underwent thematic analysis. Overall, children tended to find closed questions easier than open questions because they required less thought to answer but felt more listened to and better able to give their stories in response to open questions. Their perceptions frequently matched findings in the literature about the utility of open versus closed questions. The research has implications for interviews with child victims.
How Do Interviewers and Children Discuss Individual Occurrences of Alleged Repeated Abuse in Forensic Interviews?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-03-2013
DOI: 10.1002/ACP.2920
The importance of enhancing the communication skills of incarcerated mothers
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2023
Testing the effectiveness of a blended vulnerable witness training for forensic interviewers
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-03-2021
Investigative Interviewing of Aboriginal Children in Cases of Suspected Sexual Abuse
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-05-2016
DOI: 10.1080/10538712.2016.1158762
Abstract: This study examined the investigative interviewing of Australian Aboriginal children in cases of alleged sexual abuse, with a focus on three commonly included components of interview protocols: ground rules, practice narrative, and substantive phase. Analysis of 70 field transcripts revealed that the overall delivery and practice of ground rules at the beginning of the interview was positively associated with the spontaneous usage of rules in children's narratives of abuse. When specifically examining the "don't know" rule, however, only practice had an effect of children's usage of the rule (as opposed to simple delivery or no delivery at all). Children spoke more words overall, and interviewers used more open-ended prompts during the substantive phase when the interviews contained a practice narrative. Children most often disclosed sexual abuse in response to an open-ended prompt however, they produced the most words in response to suggestive prompts. This article concludes with a discussion of the effectiveness of ground rules, practice narratives, and questioning with Aboriginal children.
Information Gathering in Investigative and Medical Interviewing: Drawing Parallels Across Contexts
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-12-2019
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2019.1700884
Abstract: Information gleaned from a patients' medical history is a core determinant of a medical diagnosis. Accurate and effective history-taking is, therefore, a foundational skill for medical practitioners and is introduced early in medical training. Recognizing and developing the skills of effective medical interviewing is an ongoing challenge for medical students and experienced clinicians alike. Important parallels exist between the information gathering skills required in medicine and health, and those required in investigative interviewing. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 19 experienced medical professionals from a range of specialty areas. They were asked about the role of the medical interview in their discipline, and about challenges they experience when gathering information from patients. Both theory-driven and grounded-theory approaches were used in combination to identify common themes. The interviews were rich with themes including approaches to introductory phases of the interview, eliciting a narrative account, and several topics that specifically paralleled issues in interviewing of vulnerable witnesses. We explore these themes through a lens of investigative interviewing by applying the knowledge of effective interviewing skills and structures to the data gained from the medical context. In general, themes indicated that there are numerous parallels to information gathering approaches in both contexts. As such, there may be scope for medical education to adopt some of the training techniques employed in the investigative interviewing field. Further, it is hoped that the present findings be used to spark an interdisciplinary conversation about communication from which both sides can learn.
The influence of self-assessment practices on online training for investigative interviewing skills
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2023
The NICHD protocol: a review of an internationally-used evidence-based tool for training child forensic interviewers
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 08-06-2015
DOI: 10.1108/JCRPP-01-2015-0001
Abstract: – The purpose of this paper is to review an evidence-based tool for training child forensic interviewers called the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Protocol (NICHD Protocol), with a specific focus on how the Protocol is being adapted in various countries. – The authors include international contributions from experienced trainers, practitioners, and scientists, who are already using the Protocol or whose national or regional procedures have been directly influenced by the NICHD Protocol research (Canada, Finland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, and USA). Throughout the review, these experts comment on: how and when the Protocol was adopted in their country who uses it training procedures challenges to implementation and translation and other pertinent aspects. The authors aim to further promote good interviewing practice by sharing the experiences of these international experts. – The NICHD Protocol can be easily incorporated into existing training programs worldwide and is available for free. It was originally developed in English and Hebrew and is available in several other languages. – This paper reviews an evidence-based tool for training child forensic interviewers called the NICHD Protocol. It has been extensively studied and reviewed over the past 20 years. This paper is unique in that it brings together practitioners who are actually responsible for training forensic interviewers and conducting forensic interviews from all around the world.
The effects of face-to-face versus live video-feed interviewing on children's event reports
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-06-2017
DOI: 10.1111/LCRP.12098
Prosecutors' Perceptions on Questioning Children about Repeated Abuse
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
Children's performance on ground rules questions: implications for forensic interviewing.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 02-2015
DOI: 10.1037/LHB0000119
Abstract: Ground rules, also called interview instructions, are included in investigative interviews with children around the world. These rules aim to manage the expectations of children who are typically unaccustomed to being questioned by adults who are naïve to the children's experiences. Although analog research has examined the efficacy of ground rules instruction, a systematic analysis of children's ability to respond appropriately to each of the rules has not been reported. In the current study, we scored the accuracy of children's (N = 501, 4 to 12 years) responses to 5 ground rules practice questions (e.g., "What is my dog's name?") and 2 questions that asked whether they would follow the rules, and then assigned inaccurate responses to 1 of several error categories. Few children answered every question correctly, but their performance on in idual questions was encouraging. As expected, there were marked differences in children's understanding across ground rules questions (especially among the younger children), with "Don't guess" and "Tell the truth" rules being the easiest to comprehend. Together with evidence that ground rules instruction takes little time to deliver (typically 2 to 4 min) and is associated with improved accuracy in previous research, these findings support the use of ground rules in investigative interviews of children 4 years and older.
The utility of ground rule instructions with younger and older adult witnesses
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-03-2020
DOI: 10.1002/ACP.3648
Reporting rates of child sexual abuse in Indigenous communities in two Australian jurisdictions
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2017
DOI: 10.1016/J.CHIABU.2017.03.019
Abstract: Child sexual abuse is a significant problem in many Indigenous communities there is also evidence of chronic under-reporting of this crime. This study aimed to compare reporting rates between Indigenous and non-Indigenous cases of child sexual abuse across two Australian jurisdictions. Datasets comprising child sexual abuse reports from the Police Information Management Systems of the two jurisdictions were used to calculate reporting rates, and to compare case characteristics and case progression. Results indicated that the reporting rate for child sexual abuse of Indigenous children was between two and four times that of non-Indigenous children. In the Indigenous cases, the second jurisdiction had lower reporting rates than the first jurisdiction. Further analysis of the Indigenous cases only found that cases in the second jurisdiction were more severe, more likely to have a forensic interview, and more likely for the suspect to be charged, than in the first jurisdiction. However, there were no significant differences in conviction rates between the two jurisdictions. Differences observed in severity and case progression suggest that the lower reporting rates observed in the second jurisdiction may be due to comparatively high levels of under-reporting, rather than lower actual levels of child sexual abuse. In conclusion, reporting rates of child sexual abuse can be better understood when further information, such as case characteristics and case progression rates, is available.
How Interviewers Navigate Child Abuse Disclosure After an Unproductive Start in Forensic Interviews
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-07-2022
DOI: 10.1007/S42448-022-00121-0
Abstract: Obtaining abuse disclosure from children in forensic interviews can be challenging for interviewers. The present study explored strategies interviewers used when children did not disclose abuse in response to the initial invitation to provide the interview purpose. The s le included 116 forensic interviews with 4- to 16-year-olds who ultimately disclosed abuse (85% sexual). Interviewer strategies were coded following the non-productive initial invitation until the point of children’s eventual disclosure. Four main types of strategies were found: re-phrasing the initial transition prompt, asking a follow-up question, introducing prior information, and using a minimal encourager (e.g., “Uh-huh”). Strategies were coded as high- or low-quality. Consistent with predictions, 85% of children’s disclosures followed high-quality strategies. In a cycle of effective communication, such interviewer strategies predicted informative child responses, which then led to subsequent high-quality interviewer strategies. Both interviewers and children demonstrated consistency in their question and response patterns, respectively. Coupled with additional exploratory sequential analyses of interviewer-child reciprocal communication and the prior research literature, the present data suggest practical ways that interviewers can break ineffective cycles of communication in the process of obtaining child abuse disclosures.
Police perspectives on interviewing older adult victims and witnesses: Preliminary findings and call for future research
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-03-2022
Expected Consequences of Disclosure Revealed in Investigative Interviews with Suspected Victims of Child Sexual Abuse
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-01-2011
Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse in Parenting Plan Evaluations
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 02-2016
Adult Mock Sexual Assault Witness Perceptions and Non-Verbal Behaviors Across Different Interview Frameworks
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-05-2022
Witness recall across repeated interviews in a case of repeated abuse
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2014
DOI: 10.1016/J.CHIABU.2013.06.010
Abstract: In this illustrative case study we examine the three forensic interviews of a girl who experienced repeated sexual abuse from ages 7 to 11. She disclosed the abuse after watching a serialized television show that contained a storyline similar to her own experience. This triggered an investigation that ended in successful prosecution of the offender. Because this case involved abuse that was repeated on a weekly basis for 4 years we thus investigated the degree to which the child's narrative reflected specific episodes or generic accounts, and both the interviewer's and child's attempts to elicit and provide, respectively, specific details across the 3 interviews collected in a 1 month period. Across the 3 interviews, the child's account was largely generic, yet on a number of occasions she provided details specific to in idual incidents (episodic leads) that could have been probed further. As predicted: earlier interviews were characterized more by episodic than generic prompts and the reverse was true for the third interview the child often responded using the same style of language (episodic or generic) as the interviewer and open questions yielded narrative information. We discuss the importance of adopting children's words to specify occurrences, and the potential benefits of permitting generic recall in investigative interviews on children's ability to provide episodic leads. Despite the fact that the testimony was characterized by generic information about what usually happened, rather than specific episodic details about in idual occurrences, this case resulted in successful prosecution.
Forensic interviewers' perceptions of the utility of mock interviews with trained actors as a training tool for child interviewing
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2020
Children's Ability to Recall Unique Aspects of One Occurrence of a Repeated Event
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-04-2011
DOI: 10.1002/ACP.1696
Guidelines for teachers to elicit detailed and accurate narrative accounts from children
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2016
The NICHD protocol: a review of an internationally-used evidence-based tool for training child forensic interviewers
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 08-06-2015
DOI: 10.1108/JCRPP-01-2015-0001
Abstract: – The purpose of this paper is to review an evidence-based tool for training child forensic interviewers called the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Protocol (NICHD Protocol), with a specific focus on how the Protocol is being adapted in various countries. – The authors include international contributions from experienced trainers, practitioners, and scientists, who are already using the Protocol or whose national or regional procedures have been directly influenced by the NICHD Protocol research (Canada, Finland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, and USA). Throughout the review, these experts comment on: how and when the Protocol was adopted in their country who uses it training procedures challenges to implementation and translation and other pertinent aspects. The authors aim to further promote good interviewing practice by sharing the experiences of these international experts. – The NICHD Protocol can be easily incorporated into existing training programs worldwide and is available for free. It was originally developed in English and Hebrew and is available in several other languages. – This paper reviews an evidence-based tool for training child forensic interviewers called the NICHD Protocol. It has been extensively studied and reviewed over the past 20 years. This paper is unique in that it brings together practitioners who are actually responsible for training forensic interviewers and conducting forensic interviews from all around the world.
Induced power changes the sense of agency
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2012
DOI: 10.1016/J.CONCOG.2012.06.008
Abstract: Power differentials are a ubiquitous feature of social interactions and power has been conceptualised as an interpersonal construct. Here we show that priming power changes the sense of agency, indexed by intentional binding. Specifically, participants wrote about episodes in which they had power over others, or in which others had power over them. After priming, participants completed an interval estimation task in which they judged the interval between a voluntary action and a visual effect. After low-power priming, participants judged intervals to be significantly longer than judgments after high-power or no priming. Thus, intentional binding was significantly changed by low-power, suggesting that power reduces the sense of agency for action outcomes. Our results demonstrate a clear intrapersonal effect of power. We suggest that intentional binding could be employed to assess agency in in iduals suffering from anxiety and depression, both of which are characterised by reduced feelings of personal control.
Developmental Differences in the Ability to Provide Temporal Information About Repeated Events
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-03-2015
DOI: 10.1002/ACP.3118
Children as witnesses.
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Date: 2015
DOI: 10.1037/14462-001
Effects of label training and recall order on children's reports of a repeated event
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-07-2018
DOI: 10.1002/ACP.3440
Effects of interviewer familiarity and supportiveness on children's recall across repeated interviews
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 12-2019
DOI: 10.1037/LHB0000346
Abstract: Child witnesses often describe their experiences across multiple interviews. It is unknown whether talking with a familiar interviewer increases disclosures, however, or whether any benefits of a familiar interviewer could be achieved by ensuring that interviewers (regardless of familiarity) behave in socially supportive ways. This study tested the effects of interviewer familiarity and social support on children's reports of an adult's transgressions. We predicted that familiarity and supportiveness would increase transgression reports at a second interview and that children who spoke with familiar, supportive interviewers would disclose the most transgressions. Children (N = 160, 5 to 9 years) participated in a science event involving 6 transgressions. Across 2 interviews, they spoke with the same trained university student interviewer or different interviewers, and these interviewers engaged in supportive or neutral behaviors. Interviews were coded for overall information reported, number of transgressions, and confabulations. There were no effects of support in the first interview or on total details reported in either interview. Children reported more transgressions to supportive than neutral interviewers in the second interview (IRR = 1.19), even during open-ended prompting (IRR = 1.26), and they omitted fewer transgressions that had been reported in the first interview (IRR = 0.69). Confabulations were infrequent. There were no condition differences in the total number of confabulations reported across interviews, but these errors occurred more often in the second interview in the supportive condition. Interviewer support may play a greater role than familiarity in facilitating children's testimony. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
Expressions of shame in investigative interviews with Australian Aboriginal children
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.1016/J.CHIABU.2015.11.004
Abstract: This study inspected a s le of 70 interview transcripts with Australian Aboriginal children to gain a sense of how frequently verbal shame responses were occurring in investigative interviews regarding alleged sexual abuse. Transcripts were examined to determine how children articulated shame, how interviewers reacted to these responses, and how shame related to children's accounts. Examination of frequencies revealed that verbal shame responses occurred in just over one-quarter of the interviews. One-way analyses of variance indicated that children who expressed shame within the interview spoke the same amount as children who did not express shame, however, they required more interviewer prompts before a disclosure was made. Interviews where children expressed shame also included a greater number of interviewer reminders compared to interviews without shame responses. Results emphasize the importance of interviewer awareness of shame, and also point to the value of reassurance, patience, and persistence with non-leading narrative prompting when interviewing children who express shame during discussions of sexual abuse.
An examination of don't know responses in forensic interviews with children.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2014
DOI: 10.1002/BSL.2141
Abstract: Most experimental studies examining the use of pre-interview instructions (ground rules) show that children say "I don't know" more often when they have been encouraged to do so when appropriate. However, children's "don't know" responses have not been studied in more applied contexts, such as in investigative interviews. In the present study, 76 transcripts of investigative interviews with allegedly abused children revealed patterns of "don't know" responding, as well as interviewers' reactions to these responses. Instructions to say "I don't know" when appropriate did not affect the frequency with which children gave these responses. Interviewers rejected "don't know" responses nearly 30% of the time, and typically continued to ask about the same topic using more risky questions. Children often answered these follow-up questions even though they had previously indicated that they lacked the requested information. There was no evidence that "don't know" responses indicated reluctance to talk about abuse. Implications for forensic interviewers are discussed.
Teaching child investigative interviewing skills: Long-term retention requires cumulative training.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 02-2022
DOI: 10.1037/LAW0000332
The origin, experimental basis, and application of the standard interview method: An information‐gathering framework (Book review)
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2020
DOI: 10.1111/AP.12468
The use of ground rules in investigative interviews with children: A synthesis and call for research
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2015
Recommendations for Interviewing Children About Repeated Experiences
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 08-2014
DOI: 10.1037/LAW0000011
Effects of practicing episodic versus scripted recall on children's subsequent narratives of a repeated event
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 05-2011
DOI: 10.1037/A0022793
Retrieval of Episodic Versus Generic Information: Does the Order of Recall Affect the Amount and Accuracy of Details Reported by Children About Repeated Events?
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.1037/A0025864
Abstract: Children (N = 157) 4 to 8 years old participated 1 time (single) or 4 times (repeated) in an interactive event. Across each condition, half were questioned a week later about the only or a specific occurrence of the event (depth first) and then about what usually happens. Half were prompted in the reverse order (breadth first). Children with repeated experience who first were asked about what usually happens reported more event-related information overall than those asked about an occurrence first. All children used episodic language when describing an occurrence however, children with repeated-event experience used episodic language less often when describing what usually happens than did those with a single experience. Accuracy rates did not differ between conditions. Implications for theories of repeated-event memory are discussed.
The Influence of Transition Prompt Wording on Response Informativeness and Rapidity of Disclosure in Child Forensic Interviews
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 05-2022
DOI: 10.1037/LAW0000347
Professionals' Perceptions Regarding the Suitability of Investigative Interview Protocols with Aboriginal Children
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2017
DOI: 10.1111/AP.12196
The effect of question type on resistance to misinformation about present and absent details
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 29-09-2020
DOI: 10.1002/ACP.3742
Best-practice interviewing spans many contexts.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 12-2019
The effects of e-simulation interview training on teachers' use of open-ended questions
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2015
DOI: 10.1016/J.CHIABU.2015.02.004
Abstract: Teachers in many parts of the world are mandated reporters of child abuse and maltreatment but very little is known concerning how they question children in suspicious circumstances. Teachers (n=36), who had previously participated in a mock interview scenario designed to characterize their baseline use of various question-types when attempting to elicit sensitive information from children, were given online training in choosing effective questions. They engaged in simulated interviews with a virtual avatar several times in one week and then participated in a mock interview scenario. The amount and proportion of open-ended questions they used increased dramatically after training. The overall number of questions, and amount and proportions of specific and leading questions decreased. In particular, large decreases were observed in more risky yes-no and other forced-choice questions. Given that most teachers may feel the need to ask a child about an ambiguous situation at some point during their careers it is worthwhile to incorporate practice asking effective questions into their training, and the present research suggests that an e-learning format is effective. Additionally, effective questions encourage the development of narrative competence, and we discuss how teachers might include open-ended questions during regular classroom learning.
Children's Reasoning About Which Episode of a Repeated Event is Best Remembered
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-12-2017
DOI: 10.1002/ACP.3306
An Investigation of the Question-Types Teachers Use to Elicit Information From Children
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2014
DOI: 10.1017/EDP.2014.5
The Effects of Practice on Children's Ability to Apply Ground Rules in a Narrative Interview
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2015
DOI: 10.1002/BSL.2194
Abstract: Despite the widespread use of ground rules in forensic interview guidelines, it is unknown whether children retain and apply these rules throughout narrative interviews. We evaluated the capacity of 260 five- to nine-year-olds to utilize three ground rules. At the beginning of the interview all children heard the rules half also practiced them. Children then responded to open-ended prompts about a repeated laboratory event and were assessed for their application of the rules. Logistic regressions revealed that practice only benefitted the use of the "don't know" rule. Although the children accurately answered "don't understand" and "correct me" practice questions, practice appeared to give no greater benefit than just hearing the rules. Results suggest that the current format of ground rule practice in interview guidelines is appropriate for the "don't know" rule, but the other rules may require more extensive practice with this age group.
Probing general routines and specific episodes for decision-making purposes in the family law context.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 02-2019
DOI: 10.1037/PRO0000208
A test of three refresher modalities on child forensic interviewers’ posttraining performance.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 05-2021
DOI: 10.1037/LAW0000300
Gaze, goals and growing up: Effects on imitative grasping
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-01-2013
DOI: 10.1111/BJDP.12009
Abstract: Developmental differences in the use of social-attention cues to imitation were examined among children aged 3 and 6 years old (n = 58) and adults (n = 29). In each of 20 trials, participants watched a model grasp two objects simultaneously and move them together. On every trial, the model directed her gaze towards only one of the objects. Some object pairs were related and had a clear functional relationship (e.g., flower, vase), while others were functionally unrelated (e.g., cardboard square, ladybug). Owing to attentional effects of eye gaze, it was expected that all participants would more faithfully imitate the grasp on the gazed-at object than the object not gazed-at. Children were expected to imitate less faithfully on trials with functionally related objects than those without, due to goal-hierarchy effects. Results support effects of eye gaze on imitation of grasping. Children's grasping accuracy on functionally related and functionally unrelated trials was similar, but they were more likely to only use one hand on trials where the object pairs were functionally related than unrelated. Implications for theories of imitation are discussed.
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