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 10:25-11:25 Fridays PST (12:25 -1:25 CST, 1:25-2:25 EST) and will occur every week from January 20 to April 13. (With the exception of March 16th) Calls will be archived and made available.

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

*Please do NOT register until you are ready to view the webinar as this will be the only way you can access the webinar link and we would like to limit duplicate registrations. Thank you!

January

20  Rapport building and narrative practice View Archived Webinar / Download Handouts
27  Question types  View Archived Webinar  / Download Handouts

February

3  Interview instructions  View Archived Webinar / Download Handouts
10  Allegation phase  View Archived Webinar  / Download Handouts
17  Follow-up questions  View Archived Webinar / Download Handouts
24    Time, Number, Repeated Abuse  View Archived Webinar / Download Handouts

March

2  Thoughts and Feelings View Archived Webinar / Download Handouts
9  Secrecy, disclosures, and reactions View Archived Webinar / Download Handouts
23  Reluctance and Recantation View Archived Webinar / Download Handouts
30  Hearsay and Testimony  View Archived Webinar / Download Handouts

April

6  Asking Children about Preferences  View Archived Webinar / Download Handouts
13 Peer Review  Register  / 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.

Certificate of Attendance: After viewing the webinar, please take a few moments to complete an Evaluation, at the end of the survey you will receive a Certificate of Attendance. 

Thomas D. Lyon, PhD, JD: Thomas D. Lyon, J.D., Ph.D. is the Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Chair in Law and Psychology at the University of Southern California.  His research interests include child abuse and neglect, child witnesses, and domestic violence.  He is the Past-President of the American Psychological Association’s Section on Child Maltreatment (Division 37) and a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. He has published over 30 papers in law reviews, psychology journals, and books, has authored or co-authored over 50 research presentations at psychology and law conferences, and has conducted over 100 trainings with judges, attorneys, law professors, social workers, psychologists, and reporters.  His work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the United States Department of Justice, the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, the California Endowment, and the Haynes Foundation.