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Child Interview Techniques
Length of Seminar: 2
Days
Instructor: Mary
Everhart
Course Overview:
This class is designed to give the attendee a working
knowledge of how to interview children. Material will be presented
on developmental issues, linguistic issues, and the need for understanding
cultural difference in interviewing children, as well as when it may
be necessary to only gather background information and pass the interview
on to another agency. In many professions, there is the possibility
of the need to gather information from a child. It is important to
understand, how that information is obtained may affect its usefulness,
and accuracy.
Forensic interviews of children require specialized
skills and attention to child development issues. School personnel
and School Resource Officers are often the first person a child trust
to tell things that have happened to them or that they may have observed.
It is important to make sure that the first person to speak with the
child does not taint the interview. In this block of instruction we
will look at developmental issues as well as the types of interviews
that are conducted with children.
Performance Objectives:
At the end of this block of instruction the student,
will be able to:
- Define Interview.
- Define Interrogate.
- Define Forensic Interview.
- Define Therapeutic Interview.
- Explain how these two types of Interviews may be combined.
- Discuss three ways a School Resource Officer or teacher may
be required to do an initial interview with a child.
- Identify Interview issues for different age children.
- Explain why the setting of the interview is important. Identify
some factors besides age, that affect how a child will function
during an interview.
- Discuss why rapport is a fundamental requirement for a successful
interview.
- Explain the importance of using age appropriate language.
- Explain the difference between a leading question and open-ended
directive question.
- Identify seven possible blocks to interviewing children.
- Explain why keeping adequate records are vital.
- Discuss the four types of questions that are used when interviewing
children and be able to explain which is best, and why.
- Explain when an interview should be conducted by someone else.
- Explain why it is imperative to know your states reporting
laws.
- Discuss the pre-interview process, and why it is useful.
- Explain the rights of a child suspect dealing with the Miranda
Issue.
- Explain what due process rights a juvenile suspect has, if
any.
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