Effects Of Domestic Violence And Evaluation Of Children'

一项研究方案涉及开发和评估技术，以提高儿童证人的信息性，并评估其陈述的可信度。在与美国、英国和以色列的调查机构的合作下，面试者在遵循SSED设计的面试协议时获得了更高质量的信息。《儿童权利公约》议定书的使用大大增加了使用无限期提示从4至13岁据称受害者那里检索到的信息量，尽管儿童提供的信息类型(例如，关于时间背景)存在着重要的年龄差异。初步分析还表明，年轻证人回忆的信息总量以及对无限制提示的反应与据称的受害者一样多。同意交谈的涉嫌嫌疑人提供的关于他们经历的信息与涉嫌受害者的同龄人提供的信息一样多。其他实地实验表明，恢复心理情境和在礼仪指导的访谈背景下引入性别中立的解剖图画，都有助于儿童提供大量关于被指控的虐待事件的额外细节。正在制定程序，以提高调查性面谈得出的结论的敏感性和特异性。 另一项研究项目涉及虐待儿童和配偶对儿童和青少年发展的影响。在童年中期和青春期，家庭暴力似乎都会影响子女对父母的看法。儿童/青少年对虐待他们的父母的依恋程度较低，而虐待配偶对儿童对父母的依恋没有明显影响。

One program of research has involved the development and assessment of techniques for enhancing the informativeness of child witnesses and for evaluating the credibility of their accounts. In collaboration with investigative agencies in the US, UK, and Israel, interviewers elicited higher quality information when they following SSED-designed interview protocols. Use of the NICHD protocol dramatically increased the amount of information retrieved from four- to 13-year-old alleged victims using open-ended prompts, although there were important age differences in the types of information (e.g., regarding temporal context) that children provided. Preliminary analyses also show that young witnesses recall as much information in total, as well as in response to open-ended prompts, as alleged victims do. Alleged suspects who agree to talk provide as much information about their experiences as age mates who are alleged victims. Other field experiments have shown that mental context reinstatement and the introduction of gender-neutral anatomical drawings in the context of protocol-guided interviews both help children provide substantial numbers of additional details about the alleged incidents of abuse. Procedures are being developed to enhance the sensitivity and specificity of the conclusions drawn from investigative interviews. Another program of research is concerned with the effects of child and spouse abuse on the development of children and adolescents. In both middle childhood and adolescence, family violence appears to affect the offsprings' views of their parents. Children/adolescents feel less closely attached to parents who have abused them, whereas spouse abuse has no apparent effects on the children's attachments to either parent.