Training-Getting the Best Information from a Narrative Child Witness

Forensic interviewers often focus much attention on strategies for interviewing reluctant children. Alternatively, there are also skills to be developed and generously applied when interviewing a highly narrative child. The use of invitations, breadth and depth questions, open and specific ‘wh-’ questions and limited use of option posing questions provides a framework for understanding and moving through a child’s narration of remembered event(s).

This training is recommended for forensic interviewers at any level who wish to increase their ability to obtain the most complete and accurate information from a child witness. Information and registration.