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Objective: The aim of the current study is to examine offender behaviors and manipulation tactics described by children using a mixed method analysis. Method: The sample consisted of 95 randomly selected investigative interviews with children (aged 5 to 13 years) in which external evidence indicated a high probability that abuse occurred. An initial qualitative phase that aimed to identify key offender behaviors and manipulation tactics was followed by a quantitative phase, which explored the frequency of these tactics and their relations to children and abuse characteristics. Results: In the qualitative phase, the children described the emotional rapport offenders exhibited with them, the manipulation of their families, and the use of temptation and coercion immediately before or after the abuse. In the quantitative analysis, the establishment of emotional rapport and manipulation of the families were the most frequent offender behaviors. Girls more frequently reported emotional rapport, and children who experienced multiple incidents reported the manipulation of families more often. Conclusions: In the current study the children’s reports focused more on the establishment of rapport and threats to family members and less on the offering of temptations than past research on offenders’ descriptions of manipulation tactics. This suggests children focus more on the interpersonal aspects of offenders’ manipulation efforts, and this could be a focus of investigation and intervention. Moreover, these interpersonal aspects strengthen previous studies regarding the importance of communities in the prevention of child abuse. Communities must be a central component in understanding children’s safety and well-being.

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Our findings suggest that moral objection has significant implications on combatant's psychological and organic well-being. The findings highlight the need to include moral attitudes in research and clinical practice among combat personnel and veterans.

Addressing the characteristics of children as witnesses has been a focus of many researchers; however, the emotion derived from children during investigative interviews is an understudied field that is vital for practitioners from various contexts. The current study explores the emotional language that children use during forensic investigations following suspected sexual abuse. The sample comprises 97 investigative interviews with children (N = 97) aged 3-14 years. These interviews were randomly selected from all forensic interviews carried out in Israel in 2011. All of the interviews were conducted in conformity with the National Institute of Child Health and Development Protocol, and the emotional language of the children was coded. The results reveal a limited overall presence of emotional language. Children hardly used positive emotional language and mainly employed negative emotional language. The interview phase and the age of the children greatly affected the use of emotional language, and gender and suspect familiarity had no effect on the children's emotional language. The findings from the current study enhance existing knowledge on the emotional language of children during forensic investigations and highlight the study's unique characteristics in the context of abuse, trauma, and forensic investigation. The results of this study demonstrate the need for including probes about emotions in investigative interviews and the addition of emotional language to coding schemes for investigative interviews.

Coping with disability in the family is a multifaceted endeavor entailing changes in all spheres of life. Such changes affect not only the afflicted person but also the immediate relatives. The main objective of this study is to propose a comprehensive definitional framework for the quality of life concept, based on an action systemic approach to meet the challenge suggested in the literature. The work was focused mainly on examining the suitability of the systemic quality of life model for ascertaining life quality in family members coping with chronic illness in a relative. Ninety-four subjects in 47 families with a chronically ill or disabled relative were questioned formally. The model proved to be a valid and reliable instrument for this purpose, as well as affording us a picture of both the level and structure of the quality of life. Four significant differences were revealed in the four domains of the model: personal, physical, social, and cultural. The discussion interprets the level and structure of the subjects quality of life, and deals with its significance to the intervention process.

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