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Guidelines for teachers to elicit detailed and accurate narrative accounts from children

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  • Brubacher, Sonja P.
  • Powell, Martine B.
  • Snow, Pamela C.
  • Skouteris, Helen
  • Manger, Bronwen

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This paper provides interview strategies for teachers who talk to children about serious events, including bullying, truancy, and suspected maltreatment. With regard to the latter, teachers are among the largest group of professionals reporting child abuse, but also tend to evince low substantiation rates. We review research on best practice interviewing, with a focus on its application in school settings. Interview phases are described chronologically, with interview excerpts included for illustrative purposes. Gaps in knowledge about the appropriateness of techniques are highlighted, and recommendations for future research specifically within the school setting are made. It is proposed that teachers receive basic training in best practice interviewing so that, when required, they can confidently ask about difficulties in children's lives while minimizing the potential for contamination of children's responses.

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  • Brubacher, Sonja P. & Powell, Martine B. & Snow, Pamela C. & Skouteris, Helen & Manger, Bronwen, 2016. "Guidelines for teachers to elicit detailed and accurate narrative accounts from children," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 63(C), pages 83-92.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:63:y:2016:i:c:p:83-92
    DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2016.02.018
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    1. Feng, Jui-Ying & Chen, Shu-Jung & Wilk, Nancy C. & Yang, Wan-Ping & Fetzer, Susan, 2009. "Kindergarten teachers' experience of reporting child abuse in Taiwan: Dancing on the edge," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 31(3), pages 405-409, March.
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    1. Fängström, Karin & Sarkadi, Anna & Lucas, Steven & Calam, Rachel & Eriksson, Maria, 2017. "“And they gave me a shot, it really hurt” – Evaluative content in investigative interviews with young children," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 82(C), pages 434-443.

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