A national survey of child forensic interviewers: Implications for research, practice, and law.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We surveyed a national sample of child forensic interviewers to learn the types of information they wanted to have before interviewing children, their attitudes and beliefs about forensic interviews, the characteristics of their interviews, and their professional experiences.

Hypotheses

We predicted (1) interviewers would want many different types of information before interviewing children, but specifically details about the child, alleged abuse, and disclosure, and that interviewers would find this information helpful and accessible; (2) interviewers would consider their own interviews to be neutral and nonleading and to yield accurate and complete information from children; interviewers' concern about false reports would be related to (3) the amount of preinterv

SUBMITTER: Fessinger MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7122409 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature