Children Services final Flashcards
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What is Analogue Studies?
Permit researchers to examine issues that cannot be addressed in field studies. Hundreds of analogue studies have been conducted.
What is a Cognitive interview?
Based on basic principles of memory, cognition, and communication
What does the Cognitive interview require the interviewees?-there are 3.
1) reconstruct mentally the personal & environment context at the time of crucial event. 2) report everything including partial information even though it may be considered unimportant: and 3) recount the event in a variety of orders and from a variety of perspective. Research on CI reveals advantages w/adults and w/children.
What is a structured interview?
Help prevent defective interviewing, & standardization increase adherence to evidence-based practices.
What are the types of interviewing?-there are 4
- unstructured
- structured
- Semi-structure
- Flexible
What is an unstructured interview?-Good or Bad?
the interviewers follow the child’s lead-is ill advised.
What is structured interview (NICHD)?-Good or Bad?
exact wording of questions is scripted. Help prevent defective interviewing and standardization increases adherence to evidence-based practice
What is semi-structured (Finding Words) interviewing?-Good or Bad?
interviewers follow questioning guidelines and cover pre-determined topics, selecting from a toolkit of strategies. Afford more flexibility, but also more room for error
What is Flexible interview (NCAC)?-Good or Bad?
Middle ground between structured and semi-structured
What is the most common protocols when using a phased/stage approach?-there are 9.
- Initial preparatory phase
- Introductions
- Rapport development
- Promise to tell the truth, narrative 5. practice, instructions
- Information gathering
- Invitation for free recall, e.g. What happened?
- Closure
- Re-composure if the child is upset
- Time for the child to ask questions
What are the protocols for an interviewing setting?-there are 6
- Age appropriate, private and child-friendly setting with minimal distraction.
- Private interviews are recommended
- Studies show that children are reluctant to accuse adults of wrongdoing in the adult’s presence or to accuse a peer of wrongdoing in the presence of an innocent peer.
- Don’t assume that a parent’s presence will decrease stress.
- There are cases in which children protest, refuse and cannot be reassured.
- Protocols recommend asking the adult to leave once the child is comfortable and before substantive questioning begins.
When interviewing, what are the styles the interviewer should follow?-there are 7
- Scientific evidence suggests that interviewers are more successful when they provide a supportive yet non-suggestive atmosphere.
- Social support has shown to help children be more resistant to misleading questions and to improve interview performance without contaminating their accounts of non-abusive events
- Eye contact, relaxed body posture, smiling, and warm intonation
- It is critical that supportiveness not become selective reinforcement.
- Interviewer bias has been linked with distortions of children’s accounts.
- Interviewers should strive to remain objective and neutral.
- Interviewers should explore alternative hypotheses and keep biases in check.
What happens when there has been multiple interviews with a child?-there are 4
- Excessive interviewing of young children using suggestive techniques can be detrimental to the accuracy of their reports.
- Repeated non-leading interviews tends to uncover new details.
- Researchers have not found a detrimental effect of repeating open-ended Wh- (who, what, where, when, how) questions.
- Repetition of yes/no questions can be problematic.
What types of cases are handled by the juvenile court?
Juvenile delinquents, status offenders, abused and neglected children
What offenses are considered status offenses? and minor or adult?
conduct by a minor that is not a crime, but that justifies intervention by the juvenile court. These offenses include, running away from home, truancy, smoking and under age drinking.
What is the exigent circumstance offense?
emergency being taken away from the home.
What is an investigation worker?
the investigate reports of abuse /neglect and decides whether or not the report should be substantiated.