Assessing the quality of child investigative interviewing in the Netherlands

Using evidence-based guidelines to interview children is an important means to obtain complete and accurate accounts. In the current study, we examined the quality of child investigative interviewing in the Netherlands. To examine this, we compared the Dutch Scenario Model with the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Protocol and interviews from countries that did not follow a specific protocol. Our principal result was that Dutch child interviewers rarely asked recommended open prompts that are known to elicit detailed and accurate testimonies from children. Furthermore,... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Otgaar, Henry
La Rooy, David
Horselenberg, Robert
Hershkowitz, Irit
de Ruiter, Corine
Blezer, Laura
Kidane, Rosie
Kollau, Rowan
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
Reihe/Periodikum: Otgaar , H , La Rooy , D , Horselenberg , R , Hershkowitz , I , de Ruiter , C , Blezer , L , Kidane , R & Kollau , R 2019 , ' Assessing the quality of child investigative interviewing in the Netherlands ' , Applied Cognitive Psychology , vol. 33 , no. 5 , pp. 889-897 . https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3521
Schlagwörter: children / investigative interview / memory / NICHD / scenario model / the Netherlands / HUMAN FIGURE-DRAWINGS / FORENSIC INTERVIEWS / NICHD PROTOCOL / FALSE MEMORIES / ABUSE / QUESTIONS / STYLE / INFORMATION / RAPPORT / POLICE
Sprache: Englisch
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Using evidence-based guidelines to interview children is an important means to obtain complete and accurate accounts. In the current study, we examined the quality of child investigative interviewing in the Netherlands. To examine this, we compared the Dutch Scenario Model with the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Protocol and interviews from countries that did not follow a specific protocol. Our principal result was that Dutch child interviewers rarely asked recommended open prompts that are known to elicit detailed and accurate testimonies from children. Furthermore, we found that the scenario model contained the highest number of directive questions compared with interviews from other countries. Our findings show that the Dutch Scenario Model is not well aligned with current research-based recommendations for interviewing children.