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Hello everyone,
Representatives from child advocacy centers and related professionals often train multidisciplinary team members (e.g., medical professionals, law enforcement officers, child welfare investigators, etc.) to use minimal facts interviews to avoid delving too deeply into abuse or maltreatment allegations. Minimal facts interviews are intended to be brief fact-finding question-and-answer sessions that leave the 'how' and 'why' questions and other finer details for exploration by trained forensic interviewers. They are reportedly designed to minimize trauma and avoid multiple interviews
The concept is briefly mentioned by organizations such as the Northeast Regional Children's Advocacy Center and within a handful of peer-reviewed articles. Unfortunately, I cannot find a research base for minimal facts interviews, and wanted to know if anyone had insights they could share. Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Tamara Hurst, Ph.D., MSW
Director, Child Advocacy Training & Evaluation, LLC
childadvocacytraining@gmail.com
828-260-0096
Hello everyone,
Representatives from child advocacy centers and related professionals often train multidisciplinary team members (e.g., medical professionals, law enforcement officers, child welfare investigators, etc.) to use minimal facts interviews to avoid delving too deeply into abuse or maltreatment allegations. Minimal facts interviews are intended to be brief fact-finding question-and-answer sessions that leave the 'how' and 'why' questions and other finer details for exploration by trained forensic interviewers. They are reportedly designed to minimize trauma and avoid multiple interviews
The concept is briefly mentioned by organizations such as the Northeast Regional Children's Advocacy Center and within a handful of peer-reviewed articles. Unfortunately, I cannot find a research base for minimal facts interviews, and wanted to know if anyone had insights they could share. Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Tamara Hurst, Ph.D., MSW
Director, Child Advocacy Training & Evaluation, LLC
childadvocacytraininggmail.com
828-260-0096
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