Evaluating Forensic Interviews with Children
15 Hours | 15 CEs
This on-demand professional training program on Evaluating Forensic Interviews with Children is presented by Drs. Michael E. Lamb, Irit Hershkowitz, Carlos Eduardo Peixoto, and Mireille Cyr.
This program is the second in the Revised NICHD Protocol Certification. Prerequisite: Before participants can take this program, they must complete and earn a certificate of completion for the first in the series, Introduction to Developmentally Appropriate Interviewing Using the Revised NICHD Protocol.
The program focuses on how to categorize children's verbal responses, emotional expressions, reluctance, and cooperativeness, as well as interviewers' question types and emotional supportiveness.
This program also focuses on how to use the close examination of interview dynamics to gain insight into desirable and undesirable interview practices, evaluate the quality of interviews, and evaluate the informativeness and reliability of children's testimony.
Program Outline
- Introduction to Interview Evaluation
- The Socio-Emotional Dynamics Coding Scheme for Children’s Reactions
- The Socio-Emotional Dynamics Coding Scheme for Interviewers’ Interventions
- Assessing the Quality of Rapport and Pre-Substantive Goals of the Forensic Interview
- Assessing the Substantive Phase: Informativeness and Spontaneity
- Integration and Review: Assessing the Forensic Interview
Intended Audience
This on-demand professional training program is intended for mental health and other allied professionals
Experience Level
This on-demand professional training program is appropriate for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level clinicians.
CE / CPD Credit
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Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
Describe the interview evaluation
Describe the socio-emotional dynamics coding scheme for children's reactions
Describe the socio-emotional dynamics coding scheme for interviewers' interventions
Describe the quality of rapport and pre-substantive goals of the forensic interview
Describe coding schemes for assessing the quality of interviewers’ and children’s behavior during investigative interviews
Describe the phases and structural components of developmentally appropriate forensic interviews
Describe methods for identifying socio-emotional expressions across pre-substantive and substantive phases
Describe criteria for assessing children’s engagement and emotional readiness to proceed to the substantive phase
Describe the use of open-ended questioning strategies to elicit coherent, detailed narratives in the substantive phase
Describe how assessment criteria are applied to each interview phase to determine developmental appropriateness and informational quality
Presented By
Carlos Eduardo Peixoto, PhD
Carlos Eduardo Peixoto has a Ph.D. in Psychology. He is a Forensic Psychologist in private practice and Invited Auxiliary Professor at ICBAS-University of Porto and the Catholic University of Portugal (Oporto Regional Centre). He has served as a trainer and consultant on forensic interviewing to int...
Presented By
Michael E. Lamb, PhD
Michael E. Lamb is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1976 and honorary doctorates from the Universities of Goteborg (1995), East Anglia (2006), Abertay (2015), and Montreal (2019). Until 29 June 2016, he was a member of the...
Presented By
Mireille Cyr, PhD
Mireille Cyr is a licensed psychologist and a professor in the Department of Psychology at the Université de Montréal. Among other research in child sexual abuse, she has conducted studies on the French version of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Protocol, which is now ta...
Presented By
Irit Hershkowitz, PhD
Irit Hershkowitz is a Professor of Social Work at the University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel. Irit is one of the original developers of the NICHD Protocol and, more recently, of the Revised NICHD protocol. For three decades, she has conducted field research on best practice concerning child interviews a...
Curriculum
1. Evaluating Developmentally Appropriate Forensic Interviews
2. Coding the Socio-Emotional Dynamics of the Interview: Children’s Responses
3. Coding the Socio-Emotional Dynamics of the Interview: Interviewers’ Interventions
4. Evaluating Interviews: Quality of the Presubstantive Phase
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Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT), SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0356 and the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0073. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6811. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CONCEPT Professional Training, #1480, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CONCEPT Professional Training maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 11/22/23-11/22/26. Social workers completing this course receive (clinical or social work ethics) continuing education credits.