LIVE: Evaluating Forensic Interviews with Children (NICHD)
March 20, 2025 - April 24, 2025 | 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific
March 20, 2025 - April 24, 2025
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Pacific
18 Hours | 18 CEs
Session Dates: March 20th, 27th, April 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th (1.5-hrs live, online + 2-hrs asynchronous each week x 6 weeks)
This live professional training program on Evaluating Forensic Interviews with Children is presented by Michael Lamb, PhD; Irit Hershkowitz, PhD; Mireille Cyr, PhD; and Carlos Eduardo Peixoto, PhD.
This program is the second of a 4-program certificate program for users and consumers of the NICHD Investigative Interview Protocol.
Required Program Pre-Requisite: Participation in this program requires completion of the Introduction to developmentally appropriate interviewing using the Revised NICHD Protocol program. To register for this program, visit here.
The program will focus on how to categorize children's verbal responses, emotional expressions, reluctance, and cooperativeness as well as interviewers' question types and emotional supportiveness.
This program will also focus 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.
Cohort Outline:
The cohort officially starts on March 13th, allowing participants to begin working asynchronously on the coursework. Participants should expect to spend 2 hours each week asynchronously doing coursework and 1 hour for each consultation session starting March 20th. The full consultation session is below. Participants are expected to attend all live sessions for CE credit.
- Week 1: Introduction to interview evaluation
- Consultation Session on 3/20/25
- Week 2: the socio-emotional dynamics coding scheme for children’s reactions
- Consultation Session on 3/27/25
- Week 3: the socio-emotional dynamics coding scheme for interviewers’ interventions
- Consultation Session on 4/3/25
- Week 4: Assessing the quality of rapport and pre-substantive goals of the forensic interview
- Consultation Session on 4/10/25
- Week 5: assessing the substantive phase: Informativeness and spontaneity
- Consultation Session on 4/17/25
- Week 6: Integration and review: Assessing the forensic interview
- Consultation Session on 4/24/25
Intended Audience
This live program is intended for mental health and other allied professionals.
Experience Level
This live program is appropriate for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level clinicians.
CE / CPD Credit
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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...
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 how children’s verbal and nonverbal indicators of reluctance can inform assessments of interview effectiveness
Describe how interviewer question types (e.g., open-ended vs.closed) influence the accuracy and depth of children’s responses
Describe the role of emotional supportiveness in promoting children's engagement and reducing anxiety during interviews
Describe the relationship between children’s emotional expressions and the informativeness of their testimony
Describe strategies for identifying and minimizing undesirable interviewer practices during investigative interviews with children
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