Interviewing Children

Debra Ann Poole

• 26 augustus 2024
• 9781433843204

Samenvatting:

Empowering professionals to secure complete, accurate testimonies, this guide equips those working with child witnesses with research-based tools to overcome common interviewing challenges. Sample dialogues, quick guides, and practical exercises illuminate effective conversational techniques.

Interviewing Children is an accessible guide for forensic interviewers, clinicians, attorneys, and other professionals who rely on children amp rsquo s testimony.

In this second edition, Poole and Dickinson present new thematic chapters on conversation habits, conventional content, and protocols for training.

Highlights include:

• Sample dialogues that help flesh out and illustrate research-based recommendations for practice
• quick guides that synthesize core ideas and skills
• amp quot Principles to Practice amp quot sections that answer questions about child interviewing and
• a comprehensive appendix of learning activities readers can use to sharpen their interviewing skills.

The primary goal of all conversations with child witnesses is to help children describe events in their lives as completely, accurately, and unambiguously as they can. But common obstacles can make this task difficult, if not impossible. Interviewing Children offers a comprehensive look at the science of conversation with children in forensic contexts and provides the research-based tools and practices for navigating these obstacles.