• Forensic Interviewers Beyond Foundations Training

    Beyond Foundations trainings are ideal for anyone wanting to supplement learning obtained at respective Protocol trainings, expanding on transitions and different populations, refining interviewing techniques, and increasing knowledge regarding tools for the forensic interviewer. All attendees must have access to camera with video and audio capabilities. REMINDER! Classes are intentionally small, so be prepared for interaction and discussion! If you do not receive an email confirming submission of your registration information, please email ldula@theNFIN.org for verification. Thank you!
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  • Beyond Foundations

    Training Topics 1 

    Session Descriptions

    Beyond Foundations: Screening in the
    Field for Forensic Interviewers (3 hours)

    Description: Screening for various types of abuse
    and maltreatment is a key facet for any interview.
    These screenings necessitate an understanding of
    how children communicate, dynamics of abuse and
    neglect, and safety risks. This training builds
    foundational understanding and teaches a
    screening protocol to help guide the course of the
    screen.

    Finding the FLOW: Refining Your Forensic
    Interview (3 hours)

    Description: After completing initial forensic
    interviewing training, interviewers have learned
    foundational information and the application of an
    interviewing protocol in an interview setting. This
    training on focuses on refining this primary
    knowledge by focusing transitions and
    integrations, engaging analytical thinking for the
    forensic interview, and progressing questioning
    skills.

    Did Chucky Scare You? Use of
    Anatomical Dolls in the Forensic
    Interview (3 hours)

    Description: No forensic interviewing tool has
    been so researched or surrounded in such a
    shroud of fear. 
    This is an excellent tool for use in the interview room to expand an interviewer's tookbox. Learn
    about the research and how to appropriately
    utilize a valuable tool in the course of your forensic
    interviewing practice.

    What’s in Your Toolbox: Tools in Forensic
    Interviews (3 hours)

    Description: Emphasis on utilizing words first in
    forensic interviews is a key in the practice of any
    interviewer. However, knowing what tools are
    available that help clarify statements is also
    paramount in practice. Knowing when to utilize
    what tool and the reasoning behind that use is
    critical in every interviewer’s practice.

  • Beyond Foundations

    Training Topics 2

    Session Descriptions

    Beyond Foundations:  Conducting Recantation Forensic Interviews (3 hours)

    The potential for recantation is a reality for any case regarding allegations of child abuse. What is critical is understanding dynamics that increase the likelihood of recantation, which allows us to identify those factors and understand how to proactively respond to them. How those dynamics are explored is critical in the course of a forensic interview, and strategies of how a forensic interviewer navigates a recantation interview is the focus of this training.

    When There Are Fewer Words: Individuals with Limited Verbal Ability (3 hours)

    Young children or individuals with more limited verbal ability can present as complex interviews, as the interviewer needs to make rapid and in-time adjustments to not only vocabulary used, but question typology.  This session will address considerations as well as strategies in navigating these interviews.

    When There Are No Words: Individuals who are Non-verbal or Utilize Alternate Communication Methods (3 hours)

    Conducting interviews with individuals who are non-verbal does not mean a forensic interview cannot be conducted!  Rather, considerations should be made in learning how the individual communicates, then modifying questioning techniques to better understand and explore information with individuals who do not communicate in verbal form.  This training will explore alternate questioning methods to navigate these interviews. 

     

    Beyond Foundations: Evidence in Forensic Interviews (3 hours)

    When evidence is found during the course of the investigation, deliberations need to be made regarding the use of evidence in the forensic interview. Questions of ‘how’, ‘when’, and ‘if’ should be considered in cases involving evidence, and the defensible use of such evidence in a forensic interview.

  • Format: (000) 000-0000.
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  • Beyond Series 1 Training Topic and Date Selection (selection of singular topic will populate available trainings dates for that topic; selection of FULL SERIES will populate all topic dates in series)*
  • Did Chucky Scare You? Dates (3 hours)
  • What's in Your Toolbox? Dates (3 hours)
  • Finding Your Flow Dates (3 hours)
  • Interviewing Children:  Screening for Forensic Interviewers (3 hours)
  • Beyond Series 2 Training Topic and Date Selection (selection of singular topic will popuate available trainings dates for that topic; selection of FULL SERIES will populate all topic dates in series)
  • Beyond Foundations: Recantation Forensic Interviews
  • Fewer Words
  • Evidence in Forensic Interviews
  • No Words
  • Cost

     $80.00 per session

    4 sessions- $310.00 

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