Training Session Descriptions
Interviewing Children: Screening in the
Field for Forensic Interviewers (4 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 (4 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 (2.5 hours)
Description: No forensic interviewing tools has
been so researched or surrounded in such a
shroud of fear. Anatomical dolls, like any other
tool, should be used secondarily to words, and
should be used with thought and purpose. 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 (2.5 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.