The effect of drawing on children's experiences of investigations following alleged child abuse

Katz, Carmit; Barnetz, Zion; Hershkowitz, Irit

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2014.01.003

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“…Recent research confirms what many forensic interviewers have believed for a long time: If you permit children to draw on their own while being interviewed, it can help them or at least not interfere with accurate memory reports (e.g., Katz, Barnetz, & Hershkowitz, 2014;Patterson & Hayne, 2011;.…”

Section: Comfort Drawing Helpssupporting

confidence: 59%

Is There Consensus About Children’s Memory and Suggestibility?

Goodman¹,

Jones

McLeod

2017

J Interpers Violence

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The modern scientific study of children's eyewitness memory was initially motivated, in important part, by the sensational preschool investigations and prosecutions of the 1980s and 1990s (e.g., the McMartin case, the Kelly Michaels case, the Country Walk case). These cases form the centerpiece of Professor Cheit's scholarly book, The Witch-Hunt Narrative. In recent years, researchers have made great strides in helping the legal system tackle some of the complex issues involved in child sexual abuse investigations. While commenting on Professor Cheit's book, we review areas of consensus regarding child forensic interviewing, areas of disconnect between scientific laboratory studies and needs of the legal system, and the potential effects of bias on the scientific enterprise relevant to Professor Cheit's treatise. Although we find that there is consensus in the field regarding a set of general principles, there is often room for disagreement in evaluating a particular case, and there is still much to be learned about how best to interview children when allegations of sexual abuse arise.

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Section: Comfort Drawing Helpssupporting

confidence: 59%

Is There Consensus About Children’s Memory and Suggestibility?

Goodman¹,

Jones

McLeod

2017

J Interpers Violence

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“…The current study also showed that the use of the RP was associated with increases in the number of times children referred to emotions related to the interview context. This topic has not been the focus of much research previously, with some studies examining children’s retrospective evaluations of their emotional reactions to the interview (Katz, Barnetz, & Hershkowitz, 2014) or the investigative process (Westcott & Davies, 1996). In retrospect, children often describe disclosure as an ambivalent process marked by negative emotional states such as fear, shame, and guilt (Goodman-Brown et al, 2003; Hershkowitz, Lanes, & Lamb, 2007; Kuehnle & Connell, 2011), which often cause reluctance to disclose abuse, particularly when the offender is a family member (Hershkowitz et al, 2005).…”

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Facilitating the Expression of Emotions by Alleged Victims of Child Abuse During Investigative Interviews Using the Revised NICHD Protocol

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Children’s testimony is often critical to the initiation of legal proceedings in abuse cases. In forensic interviews, the expression of emotions can powerfully enhance both the quality of children’s statements and perceptions that their statements are coherent and credible. However, children rarely express their emotions when reporting abusive events. The Revised The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Protocol (RP) was designed to emphasize socioemotional communication during forensic interviews and thus should be associated with more extensive and diverse expressions of emotions by alleged victims of abuse. The present study focused on forensic interviews (178 using the Revised and 100 using the Standard NICHD Protocol) with victims of physical child abuse whose allegations were corroborated using independent evidence. Detailed content coding showed that the RP was associated with the expression of more different emotions, more expression of abuse-related emotions, and more expression of emotions related to the interview context. Emotional expressiveness was associated with increased informativeness, and the association between the type of protocol and informativeness was fully mediated by emotional expressiveness. These results suggest that the Revised Protocol facilitates the expression of emotions by alleged victims of abuse in a way that enhances the value of children’s testimony in multiple ways.

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“…For example, some children in the present experiment said during their interviews that they did not like to draw, which could be an obstacle for the potential effectiveness of the technique. Asking children about their own experiences of the draw‐and‐talk technique may provide interesting insights regarding the usability of drawing (see Katz, Barnetz, & Hershkowitz, 2014). Moreover, if researchers were to recruit larger samples, it would enable more sophisticated statistical analysis methods (e.g., quantile regression) to probe whether the draw‐and‐talk instruction has a beneficial influence only for particular participant subgroups.…”

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The effects of drawing on preschoolers' statements about experienced and non‐experienced events

Magnusson

Ernberg

Landström

et al. 2020

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Summary Although drawing is frequently used during investigative interviews, few studies have explored the effectiveness of draw‐and‐talk techniques with very young children. In this article, we examined the effects of drawing on preschoolers' (3–6 years old) reports of self‐experienced and non‐experienced events. In Study I, we interviewed 83 preschoolers about a staged event. We did not observe any significant statement differences between children asked to draw‐and‐talk compared to a verbal‐only condition. In Study II, we interviewed 25 preschoolers about a nonexperienced event. Twenty‐one children initially denied the event. When asked if they could help the interviewer draw a person from the event, 13 (61.9%) children complied with the request and eventually provided several false details. While drawing did not significantly increase the average number of details, exploratory findings indicated that drawing may have helped a subset of children. However, drawing might impair children's accuracy when suggestively interviewed about nonexperienced events.

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The effect of drawing on children's experiences of investigations following alleged child abuse

Cited by 32 publications

References 29 publications

Is There Consensus About Children’s Memory and Suggestibility?

Is There Consensus About Children’s Memory and Suggestibility?

Facilitating the Expression of Emotions by Alleged Victims of Child Abuse During Investigative Interviews Using the Revised NICHD Protocol

The effects of drawing on preschoolers' statements about experienced and non‐experienced events

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