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Interviewing Children Who May have been Abused: A Historical Perspective and Overview of Controversies

dc.contributor.authorFaller, Kathleen Coulbornen_US
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dc.date.issued1996en_US
dc.identifier.citationFaller, Kathleen (1996). "Interviewing Children Who May have been Abused: A Historical Perspective and Overview of Controversies." Child Maltreatment 2(1): 83-95. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/66515>en_US
dc.identifier.issn1077-5595en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/66515
dc.description.abstractThis article provides a historical perspective on the practice of interviewing children in cases of alleged sexual abuse and current controversies about these interviews. The following controversies and related writing and research are discussed: (a) the ability of the interviewer to conduct a competent interview, (b) the competence of the child to describe actual events, (c) interview structure and process, and (d) decision making about the likelihood of sexual abuse.en_US
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dc.publisherSAGE Periodicals Pressen_US
dc.titleInterviewing Children Who May have been Abused: A Historical Perspective and Overview of Controversiesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelSocial Sciences (General)en_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumUniversity of Michiganen_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/66515/2/10.1177_1077559596001002001.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1077559596001002001en_US
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