While interviewing an abused child is never easy, using the right approach can make the process less stressful and produce better results.
Topics
Before the Interview
Instructions and Rapport-Building
Open-Ended Questioning
Working with Dissociation
The Extended Forensic Evaluation
Interviewer Self-Care
"It is very important for the interviewer or evaluator to stay attuned to the child's psychological state during the interview. Because the last thing we would want to do is retraumatize the child by the way that we interview them or evaluate them, and add more trauma. So paying attention to either hyperarousal or dissociation, those are clues to the child's emotional state. " - Connie Carnes, MS LPC
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