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Electronic Documents Available
- Interview Review Form
- Question Coding Form
- Interviewer Question Types – Definitions
- Child Forensic Interviewing: Best Practices. OJJDP Juvenile Justice Bulletin
- Using the Child Abuse Library Online (CALiO)
- List of Recommended Books
- NCAC Child Forensic Interview Structure Outline
- NCAC Child Forensic Interview Structure
Additional References
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Cordisco Steele, L. (2010). Narrative Practice: What is it and why is it important? A research-to-practice summary. Huntsville, AL: National Children’s Advocacy Center.
Hershkowitz, I., Lamb, M. E., Katz, C., & Malloy, L. C. (2014). Does enhanced rapport-building alter the dynamics of investigative interviews with suspected victims of intra-familial abuse?? Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 30(1), 6-14.
Hershkowitz, I., Orbach, Y., Lamb, M. E., Sternberg, K. J., & Horowitz, D. (2006). Dynamics of forensic interviews with suspected abuse victims who do not disclose abuse. Child Abuse & Neglect, 30(7), 753-769.
Katz, C., & Hershkowitz, I. (2012). The effect of multipart prompts on children's testimonies in sexual abuse investigations. Child Abuse & Neglect, 36(11-12), 753-759.
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Faller, K. C., Cordisco-Steele, L., & Nelson-Gardell, D. (2010). Allegations of sexual abuse of a child: What to do when a single forensic interview isn't enough. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 19(5), 572-589.
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Hershkowitz, I., & Terner, A. (2007). The Effects of Repeated Interviewing on children's Forensic Statements of SA. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 21(9), 1131-1143.
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Katz, C., & Hershkowitz, I. (2009). The effects of drawing on children’s accounts of sexual abuse.. Child Maltreatment, 15(2), 171-179.
Katz, C., Hershkowitz, I., Malloy, L.C., Lamb, M. E., Atabaki, A., & Spindler, S. (2012). Non-verbal behavior of children who disclose or do not disclose child abuse in investigative interviews. Child Abuse & Neglect, 36(1), 12-20.
La Rooy, D., Katz, C., Malloy, L. C., & Lamb, M. E. (2010). Do we need to rethink guidance on repeated interviews?. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 16(4), 373-392.
La Rooy, D., Pipe, M. E., & Murray, J. E. (2005). Reminiscence and hypermnesia in children’s eyewitness memory. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 90(3), 235-254.
Patterson, T., & Pipe, M. E. M. (2009). Exploratory assessments of child abuse: Children’s responses to interviewer’s questions across multiple interview sessions. Child Abuse & Neglect, 33(8), 490-504.
Algood, C. L., Hong, J. S., Gourdine, R. M., & Williams, A. B. (2011). Maltreatment of children with developmental disabilities An ecological systems analysis. Children and Youth Review, 33(7), 1142-1148.
Bowles, P. V., & Sharman, S. J. (2014). A review of the impact of different types of leading interview questions on child and adult witnesses with intellectual disabilities. Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law, 21(2), 205-217.
Brown, D. A., Lewis, C. N., & Lamb, M. E. (2015). Preserving the past-An early interview improves delayed event memory in children with intellectual disabilities. Child Development, 86(4), 1031-1047.
Brown, D. A., Lewis, C. N., Lamb, M. E., & Stephens, E. (2012). The influences of delay and severity of intellectual disability on event memory in children. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 80(5), 829-841.
Cederborg, A. C., Danielsson, H., La Rooy, D., & Lamb, M. E. (2009). Repetition of contaminating question types when children and youths with intellectual disabilities are interviewed. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 53(5), 440-449.
Cederborg, A. C., Hultman, E., & La Rooy, D. (2011). The quality of details when children and youths with intellectual disabilities are interviewed about their abuse experiences. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 14(2), 113-125.
Cederborg, A. C., & Lamb, M. (2008). Interviewing alleged victims with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 52(1), 49-58.
Cederborg, A. C., La Rooy, D., & Lamb, M. E. (2008). Repeated interviews with children who have intellectual disabilities. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 21(2), 103-113.
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Henry, L. A., & Gudjonsson, G. H. (2007). Individual and developmental differences in eyewitness recall and suggestibility in children with intellectual disabilities. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 21(3), 361-381.
Hershkowitz, I., Lamb, M. E., & Horowitz, D. (2007). Victimization of children with disabilities. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 77(4), 629-635.
Milne, R., Sharman, S. J., Powell, M. P., & Mead, S. (2013). Assessing the effectiveness of the cognitive interview for children with severe intellectual disabilities. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 60(1), 18-29.
Hershkowitz, I., Lamb, M. E., Orbach, Y., Katz, C., & Horowitz, D. (2012). The development of communicative skills among preschoolers: Lessons from forensic interviews about child abuse. Child Development, 83(2), 611-622.
Lamb, M. E., Sternberg, K. J., Orbach, Y., Esplin, P. W., Stewart, H., & Mitchell, S. (2003). Age differences in young children’s responses to open-ended invitations in the course of forensic interviews. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 71(5), 926-934.
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Collin-Vézina, D., De La Sablonnière-Griffin, M., Palmer, A. M., & Milne, L. (2015). A preliminary mapping of individual, relational, and social factors that impede disclosure of childhood sexual abuse. Child Abuse & Neglect, 43, 123-134.
Easton, S. D., Saltzman, L. Y., & Willis, D. G. (2014).““Would you tell under circumstances like that?”: Barriers to disclosure of child sexual abuse for men. Psychology of Men & Masculinity, 15(4), 460-469.
Faller, K. C., Cordisco Steele, L., & Nelson-Gardell, D. (2010). Allegations of sexual abuse of a child: What to do when a single forensic interview isn't enough. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 19(5), 572-589.
Hershkowitz, I., Orbach, Y., Lamb, M. E., Sternberg, K. J., & Horowitz, D. (2006). Dynamics of forensic interviews with suspected abuse victims who do not disclose abuse. Child Abuse & Neglect, 30(7), 753-769.
Katz, C., Hershkowitz, I., Malloy, L. C., Lamb, M. E., Atabaki, A., & Spindler, S. (2012). Non-verbal behavior of children who disclose or do not disclose child abuse in investigative interviews. Child Abuse & Neglect, 36(1), 12-20.
Lamb, M. E., Hershkowitz, I., & Lyon, T. D. (2013). Interviewing victims and suspected victims who are reluctant to talk. APSAC Advisor, 25(4), 16-19.
La Rooy, D. J., Malloy, L. C., Katz, C., & Lamb, M. E. (2010). Do we need to rethink guidance on repeated interviews? Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 16(4), 373-392.
Lewy, J., Cyr, M., & Dion, J. (2015). Impact of interviewers’ supportive comments and children's reluctance to cooperate during sexual abuse disclosure. Child Abuse & Neglect, 43, 112-122.
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