Investigative Interviewing Workshops
These workshops are available by request.
If your organization or group is interested in any these workshops please contact: Sandra Marshall – Coordinator, Training and Development
training@ckmconsultation.com
Investigative Interviewing of the Preschool Child
Investigating allegations of abuse of a preschool child is particularly challenging to the family and criminal justice systems, law enforcement and child protection.
In order to address the various needs of professionals and systems we have designed a training model focused on what everyone needs to know; did something happen? If so, what happened? Two seemingly simple questions present a considerable dilemma to those who have not been offered specialized training in eliciting accurate, non contaminated evidence from preschoolers.
Developmental limitations particularly in cognition and language must be understood in order for the professional regardless of discipline to be effective in interviewing preschoolers.
Our comprehensive multidisciplinary training includes:
- Relevant developmental information on preschool children
- Practical strategies for approach, questioning, interview focus, flow and closure
- Interview protocols that protect against contamination
- Review of research on suggestibility in a young child
- Research on disclosure by young children
- Review of validation criteria for assessing the credibility of young child statements
- Crime scene preservation
- Kahn applications
- Successful prosecution strategies
The topics will be adjusted for single disciplines wishing to take this training.