Beyond First and Last: Exploring Multiple Incidents with Young Children
Course Description
This training will discuss strategies for organizing forensic interviews with young children, specifically looking at what to do when multiple forms of maltreatment or multiple incidents are disclosed within the same interview. It will also cover linguistic strategies for interviewing young children.
Learning Objectives
1. Explore sample language useful for interviews with young children and how a child’s language and interview aids can be utilized to parse out individual accounts of multiple events.
2. Learn tools and strategies for making the forensic interview and communication more accessible and effective for young children.
3. Understand how episodic narrative and narrative practice can be best utilized with this age group.
Instructors
Rachel Johnson
