LIVE: Evaluating Forensic Interviews with Children (NICHD)
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-hr live, online + 2-hrs asynchronous each week x 6 weeks)
Register HereThis 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 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