Interviewing Children by Michelle Aldridge
The process of asking a child questions can sometimes be a frightening and mystifying experience for the child, and often for the interviewer as well. This text offers practitioners an understanding of children's language abilities at different development stages, and gives clear guidelines on strategies that professionals might adopt to facilitate their interviewing of children. Rather than focusing in detail on the wider issues of deception, suggestibility and reliability, the authors examine the process of communication with children in the interview situation. Giving guidelines on how interviewers can help children to "tell their story" in an unbiased and non-leading fashion. The book's format closely follows the three phases of the interview structure advised in the "Memorandum of Good Practice" - the Home Office guidelines used by professionals when interviewing children. Each chapter is self-contained, allowing professionals to focus on one particular phase if they wish, and also includes a checklist of important "do's and don't's".| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780471970521 |
| ISBN 10 | 0471970522 |
| Title | Interviewing Children |
| Author | Michelle Aldridge |
| Series | Wiley Series In Child Care And Protection |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Year published | 1998-10-22 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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