The combination of feedback and modeling in online simulation training of child sexual abuse interviews improves interview quality in clinical psychologists

Haginoya, Shumpei; Yamamoto, Shota; Santtila, Pekka

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105013

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“…The quality of the interviews while providing feedback to the avatar training increased the proportion of recommended questions both in avatar interviews as well as in investigative interviews with real child victims and witnesses of sexual and physical abuse. The effectiveness of avatar training has now been validated in various cultural contexts such as Finland ( Krause et al, 2017 ), Italy ( Pompedda et al, 2015 , 2017 ), Estonia ( Pompedda et al, 2021 ), and Japan ( Haginoya et al, 2020 , 2021 ).…”

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Transfer of Avatar Training Effects to Investigative Field Interviews of Children Conducted by Police Officers

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Previous research with students and some professional groups (psychologists) has demonstrated that repeated feedback in simulated investigative interviews with computerized child avatars improves the quality of interviews conducted with real children who have witnessed a mock event. However, it is not known whether this type of training would improve the quality of investigative interviews with actual child victims and witnesses of physical and sexual abuse. Twenty-two police investigators participated in the study. Half of them received feedback during four simulated interviews whereas the other half received no feedback during four such interviews followed by another four interviews after which they also received feedback. Transcripts of interviews both before and after the training were coded for interview quality. Receiving feedback after the simulated interviews increased the proportion of recommended questions both within the simulations and, importantly, also during interviewing with actual child victims and witnesses. This study demonstrated for the first time transfer of learning from simulated interviews to actual investigative interviews.

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Transfer of Avatar Training Effects to Investigative Field Interviews of Children Conducted by Police Officers

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“…In all the studies included in the present report, recommended and not recommended questions were coded as continuous variables with the value indicating the number of questions asked in an interview. For the categorization of questions, see Table 1 (Haginoya et al, 2021; Pompedda et al, 2015). Not all studies reported interrater reliability.…”

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“…I do not have enough information vs. No Abuse) to log the preliminary assumption (Study 2 from Pompedda et al, 2020; Kask et al, 2022). While two categories (Abuse vs. No Abuse) were used in the remaining studies (Krause et al, 2017; Study 1 from Pompedda et al, 2020; Haginoya et al, 2020, 2021; Haginoya & Santtila, 2022). In the current analysis, we recorded the ordinal data so that ‘Yes’ and ‘Maybe Yes’ correspond to ‘Abuse’ while ‘No’ and ‘Maybe No’ correspond to ‘No abuse’.…”

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Confirmation bias in simulated CSA interviews: How abuse assumption influences interviewing and decision‐making processes?

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Legal Criminol Psychol

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Purpose Research has shown that confirmation bias plays a role in legal and forensic decision‐making processes and, more specifically, child interviews. However, previous studies often examine confirmation bias in child interviews using non‐abuse‐related events. We enrich the literature by examining interviewers’ behaviours in simulated child sexual abuse (CSA) cases. Method In the present study, we used data from a series of experiments in which participants interviewed child avatars to examine how an assumption of abuse based on preliminary information influenced decision‐making and interviewing style. Interview training data (N interview = 2084) from eight studies with students, psychologists and police officers (N = 377) were included in the analyses. Results We found that interviewers’ preliminary assumption of sexual abuse having taken place predicted 1) a conclusion of abuse by the interviewers after the interview; 2) higher confidence in their judgement; 3) more frequent use of not recommended question types and 4) a decreased likelihood of reaching a correct conclusion given the same number of available relevant details. Conclusion The importance of considering how preliminary assumptions of abuse affect interview behaviour and outcomes and the implications for the training of investigative interviewers were discussed.

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“…Consequently, correct conclusions should be positively predicted by recommended questions as well as relevant details and negatively predicted by not recommended questions and wrong details. Evidence has repeatedly shown that CSA Avatar Training coupled with feedback on the interviewers' performance results in improvement of interview quality compared to controls who receive no feedback (Haginoya et al, 2020(Haginoya et al, , 2021Krause, et al, 2017;. Subsequently, additional studies have focused on further factors that have been expected to improve the training effect by incorporating new features in the program.…”

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“…This approach includes ve components: (1) identifying well-de ned behaviors, (2) showing the effective use of those behaviors through model(s), (3) giving opportunities to practice those behaviors, (4) providing feedback and social reinforcement, and (5) taking measures of maximizing the transfer of those behaviors to practical tasks (Taylor et al, 2005), the latter three of which have been the integral part of the Avatar Training approach used in the earlier studies. By also incorporating the rst and second component into the Avatar Training and providing the participants both negative and positive models and the consequences of these behaviors, Haginoya et al (2021) showed that the combination of feedback and modeling improves interview quality more than feedback alone. In addition to improving interview quality directly, Authors [masked for review] also tested whether adding feedback on supportive statements could be done while also improving the use of appropriate question types.…”

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A Mega-Analysis of the Effects of Feedback on the Quality of Simulated Child Sexual Abuse Interviews with Avatars

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The present study aimed to test the effectiveness of giving feedback on simulated avatar interview training (Avatar Training) across different experiments and participant groups and to explore the effect of professional training and parenting experience by conducting a mega-analysis of previous studies. A total of 2,208 interviews containing 39,950 recommended and 36,622 non-recommended questions from 394 participants including European and Japanese students, psychologists, and police officers from nine studies were included in the mega-analysis. Experimental conditions were dummy-coded, and all dependent variables were coded in the same way as in the previously published studies. Professional experience and parenting experience were coded as dichotomous variables and used in moderation analyses. Linear mixed effects analyses demonstrated robust effects of feedback on increasing recommended questions and decreasing non-recommended questions, improving quality of details elicited from the avatar, and reaching a correct conclusion regarding the suspected abuse. Round-wise comparisons in the interviews involving feedback showed a continued increase of recommended questions and a continued decrease of non-recommended questions. Those with (vs. without) professional and parenting experience improved faster in the feedback group. These findings provide strong support for the robustness of Avatar Training.

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The combination of feedback and modeling in online simulation training of child sexual abuse interviews improves interview quality in clinical psychologists

Cited by 20 publications

References 43 publications

Transfer of Avatar Training Effects to Investigative Field Interviews of Children Conducted by Police Officers

Transfer of Avatar Training Effects to Investigative Field Interviews of Children Conducted by Police Officers

Confirmation bias in simulated CSA interviews: How abuse assumption influences interviewing and decision‐making processes?

A Mega-Analysis of the Effects of Feedback on the Quality of Simulated Child Sexual Abuse Interviews with Avatars

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