NICHD protocolIn the Netherlands, there is currently no quality standard for conducting child forensic interviews in Child Protective Services (CPS) . The lack of such standard causes concern regarding the quality of these interviews, which are used to determine the child's safety and implementing ...
The NICHD Protocol: Guide to Follow Recommended Investigative Interview Practices at the Barnahus?An important ambition among professionals in the Nordic countries over the last decade has been to enhance the quality of investigative interviews by using structured protocols in child forensic interviews. ...
Disclosure recipient (DR) reactionswere coded in 95 forensic interviews of 4- to 13-year-oldalleged sexual abuse victims. Half of the interviews were conductedusing the National Institute of Child Health andHuman Development (NICHD) Protocol (which includes adisclosure phase focused on the child's...
Child Abuse & NeglectCyr, M. & Lamb, M.E. (2009). Assessing the effectiveness of the NICHD investigative interview protocol when interviewing French-speaking alleged victims of child sexual abuse in Quebec. Child Abuse & Neglect, 33, 257-268....
Forensic interviewsStructured interviewsThe study was designed to explore whether the credibility of children's statements regarding their alleged experiences of child sexual abuse could be assessed in a more valid and reliable way when investigative interviews were conducted using the NICHD protocol rather...
Child abuseForensic interviewChild protectionChild careNICHDInterviewing achild of asuspected abuse (physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, Munchausen-by-proxy syndrome) is subject to complex risks of suggestion and distortion. The use of a standardized interview protocol as part of the investigation ...
E. (2013). Suggestibility and witness interviewing using the cognitive interview and NICHD protocol. In A. M. Ridley, F. Gabbert, & D. J. La Rooy (Eds.), Suggestibility in legal contexts: Psychological research and forensic implications (pp. 197-216). Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell....
426 4- to 13-year-old suspected victims of intra-familial abuse were interviewed using either the NICHD Investigative Interview Standard Protocol (SP) or a Revised Protocol (RP) designed to enhance rapport between the child and interviewer. Children were more likely to make valid (corroborated) ...