For More Information Contact:

Mike McCarty

Director

P.O. Box 295

Danville, IN 46122

317-745-6946 voice

888-215-8296 toll free

317-745-6947 fax

Publictraining@aol.com


Interviewing Children


The Interviewing Children Seminar is an intensive two day seminar that covers the following topics:

  • Introduction to Interviewing Children

  • Strangeness of the Interview

  • Preparation for Interviewing Children

  • Focus Interviewing Procedures

  • Child Interviewing Research

  • Science vs. Art of Interviewing

  • Rapport

    • Quiz

    • Compare age groups (handout and small group discussion)

  • House Drawing

  • Scaffolding

  • Competency vs. Credibility

  • Rules of the Interview

  • Language of Preschoolers

  • Cause and Effect

  • Adult Questions vs. Child's Understanding

  • Bolstering the Reliability of Preschoolers

  • Problem-solving and Closing

  • Closing the Interview with a Child

New Interviewing Children Seminars Being Developed by P.T.I.

Advanced Child Interviewing (will incorporate actual child interviews)

Interviewing Children Who Witness Domestic Homicide