Conducting Interviews with Child Victims of Abuse and Witnesses of Crime: A Practical Guide

This book is a practical and thoughtful guide for the forensic interview of children, presenting a synthesis of the empirical and theoretical knowledge necessary to understand the account of child victims of abuse or witnesses of crime.It is a complex task to interview children who are suspected of being abused in order to gather their stories, requiring the mastery of many skills and knowledge.This book is a practical one in that constant links are made between the results of the research and their relevance for the interventions made when interviewing child victims of abuse or witnesses of crime and in understanding their accounts.This book also presents in a detailed and concrete way the revised version of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD-R) Protocol, a forensic structured interview guide empirically supported by numerous studies carried out in different countries.The step-by-step explanations are illustrated with a verbatim interview with a child,