UNITED STATES
PR Newswire
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) today released Child Forensic Interviewing: Best Practices. This bulletin represents the first collaborative effort by professionals from several major forensic interview training programs to summarize the current knowledge and application of best practices on gathering factual information from children regarding allegations of child maltreatment.
Most child abuse investigations begin with a forensic interview of the child. This bulletin provides guidance on topics such as interview timing and setting, question type, rapport-building between the interviewer and the victim, interview aids, and vicarious trauma and self-care. OJJDP commissioned this report as a resource for law enforcement, medical, court and other child protection professionals working in this field.
AUTHORS: Chris Newlin, Linda Cordisco Steele, Andra Chamberlin, Jennifer
Anderson, Julie Kenniston, Amy Russell, Heather Stewart, and Viola Vaughan-Eden
WHERE: www.ojjdp.gov/pubs/248749.pdf
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