Forensic Interviewer Webinar Series - Spring 2011

MRCAC has partnered with Thomas D. Lyon, J.D., Ph.D., and Elizabeth Ahern, M.A., who will provide a series of webinars that will cover the Ten-step interview and review research and practice regarding recantations and reluctance, the use of dolls and drawings, eliciting details without direct questions, and other topics.

The Webinars will be at 10:15-11:15 Wednesdays PST (12:15 -1:15 CST, 1:15-2:15 EST) and will occur every week from January 19 to April 13 (with the exception of March 16 and 31). Calls will be archived and made available until June 2011.

A copy of the Ten-step Interview can be downloaded here.

January

19   Rapport building and narrative practice Access Archived Webinar / Download Handouts
26   Question types Access Archived Webinar / Download Handouts

February

2    Interview instructions Access Archived Webinar / Download Handouts
9    Allegation phase Access Archived Webinar / Download Handouts
16   Follow-up questions (turning closed-ended questions into open-ended questions, anchoring "tell me more" questions) - Elizabeth Ahern Access Archived Webinar / Download Handouts
23   Repeated abuse (time and number) Access Archived Webinar / Download Handout 1 / Download Handout 2 

March

2   Emotions, body sensations, thoughts Access Archived Webinar / Download Handouts
9   Secrecy, disclosures, and reactions Access Archived Webinar / Download Handouts
23  Reluctance and recantation Access Archived Webinar / Download Handouts

April

6  Interviewing children who haven't disclosed abuse (e.g., siblings of disclosing children, children with sexualized behavior, physical evidence, presentation of evidence) Access Archived Webinar / Download Handouts
13  TBA Access Archived Webinar / Download Handouts

Note: Viewers are encouraged to view the 90 minute training DVD, Interviewing Children: Getting More with Less, before the first lecture. The DVD is available from Professor Lyon (email to lcoleman@law.usc.edu).  Powerpoint slides for the training DVD can be downloaded here.

After viewing the webinar, please take a few moments to complete an Evaluation.