Evidence-based Child Forensic Interviewing

Karen J. Saywitz, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the UCLA School of Medicine. For 20 years she has trained students in medicine, psychology, social work, nursing, and law on the development of children and adolescents and directed programs providing mental health services to children and families in the public sector. Dr. Saywitz is past-president of the American Psychological Association's Division of Child, Youth and Family Services. Lorinda B. Camparo, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology at Whittier College, where she has taught and conducted research on child forensic interviewing with undergraduate students since 1997. She has been an active member of the Executive Committee for The Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice (APA Division 37) for the past 15 years, serving as Program Chair for the millennium convention, Editor of The Advocate, and Member-at-Large for Communication & Technology.

• Chapter 1: Introductory Information for Interviewers ; Chapter 2: Evidence Base for the Developmental Narrative Elaboration Interview ; Phase I: Preliminary Phase ; Chapter 3: Before the Interview: Setting up the Interview Context ; Chapter 4: Beginning the Interview: Introductions, Creating a Template, and Developing Rapport ; Chapter 5: Demystifying Legal Process and the Interview ; Chapter 6: Before the Core Interview: Teaching the Narrative Elaboration Strategy ; Chapter 7: Before the Core Interview: Optional Methods for Improving Communication ; Chapter 8: The Core DNE Interview ; Chapter 9: Exploring the Details in Allegations of Abuse and Neglect ; Phase III: Closure ; Chapter 10: Closing the Interview ; Appendix A: Reminder Cards for Elementary School-Aged Children ; Appendix B: Reminder Cards for Preschoolers ; Appendix C: Sample Transcript of Child Learning to Use the Reminder Cards ; Appendix D: Sample Transcript of Additional Practice Task ; Appendix E: Thinking Cards for Resisting Suggestive Questions ; References ; About the Authors

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