Interviewing Children: A Guide for Child Care and Forensic Practitioners
The process of interviewing a child can be a daunting experience for both the child and the interviewer. Interviewing Children offers practical advice for understanding the linguistic abilities of children and for applying that knowledge effectively to the evidentiary interview. Drawing on real transcript data and data from language games with presumed non-abused children, the authors examine each stage of the phased interview as outlined, in the Memorandum of Good Practice. Incorporating case studies, checklists, and self-assessment sheets, Interviewing Children provides step-by-step guidelines forestablishing an effective interview settingbuilding rapport with the childovercoming the difficulties that can arise when eliciting free narrative accountsunderstanding which question types to use and which to avoididentifying and using age-appropriate languageinterviewing disabled children and those who are bilingual or use a minority languageThis book?s practical and jargon-free approach will appeal to anyone involved in interviewing children, including police officers, social workers, lawyers, paediatricians, and psychologists.