Developmental Differences in the Function and Use of Anatomical Dolls During Interviews With Alleged Sexual Abuse Victims.

Thierry, Karen L.; Lamb, Michael E.; Orbach, Yael; Pipe, Margaret‐Ellen

doi:10.1037/0022-006x.73.6.1125

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“…Moreover, Lamb and colleagues point out that some analogue research demonstrates that anatomical dolls can elicit high rates of both false positives and false negatives with very young children [89,90]. Finally, Lamb and colleagues co-authored two studies that failed to find "value added" (that dolls elicited more information than verbal inquiry alone) in field interviews using anatomical dolls [91,92].…”

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Forty Years of Forensic Interviewing of Children Suspected of Sexual Abuse, 1974–2014: Historical Benchmarks

Faller

2014

Social Sciences

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This article describes the evolution of forensic interviewing as a method to determine whether or not a child has been sexually abused, focusing primarily on the United States. It notes that forensic interviewing practices are challenged to successfully identify children who have been sexually abused and successfully exclude children who have not been sexually abused. It describes models for child sexual abuse investigation, early writings and practices related to child interviews, and the development of forensic interview structures from scripted, to semi-structured, to flexible. The article discusses the controversies related appropriate questions and the use of media (e.g., anatomical dolls and drawings). It summarizes the characteristics of four important interview structures and describes their impact of the field of forensic interviewing. The article describes forensic interview training and the challenge of implementing training in forensic practice. The article concludes with a summary of progress and remaining controversies and with future challenges for the field of forensic interviewing.

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Section: Use Of Mediamentioning

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Forty Years of Forensic Interviewing of Children Suspected of Sexual Abuse, 1974–2014: Historical Benchmarks

Faller

2014

Social Sciences

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“…Although these techniques enhance the amount of information retrieved, at least under some conditions (see Salmon, 2001, for a review), interviewers seldom know which props might be relevant, and need to avoid introducing props at times which would make them suggestive. In addition, analogue studies show that, when children interact with the prop items, showing as well as telling, accuracy decreases markedly, and that the effects on accuracy are even greater when young children are shown toys and models (Gordon et al, 1993;Salmon, 2001;Salmon, Bidrose, & Pipe, 1995;Salmon & Pipe, 1997;Steward & Steward, 1996;Thierry, Lamb, Orbach, & Pipe, 2005), presumably because young children are more vulnerable to suggestion and are less capable of representing their experiences using objects (DeLoache, 1995).…”

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Making the most of information‐gathering interviews with children

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Lamb

2008

Infant and Child Development

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Because child abuse victims are often the only available sources of information about their experiences, extensive efforts have been made to understand how to maximize their informativeness. There is now broad international consensus regarding optimal interview practices, and broad awareness that children's informativeness increases when interviewers conduct developmentally appropriate interviews with children. In this paper, we (1) summarize current understanding of how children remember, retrieve, and communicate information and (2) discuss ways in which children's memory and reporting can be fostered using techniques designed to help children recount past experiences such as the Cognitive Interview, the Narrative Elaboration Technique, and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development-Protocol. Communicative success clearly depends on how well children understand their role and how effectively interviewers take advantage of children's competencies and abilities to help them maximize their informativeness. Unfortunately, agreement regarding ways in which interviews should be conducted has not been paralleled by changes in the way interviews are actually conducted in the field and more attention thus needs to be paid to training and implementation. Copyright r 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Key words: interviews with children; child abuse victims; interviewing techniques Reliable information about experienced events can be obtained from children as young as 4 years of age provided interviewers converse with and question them carefully and appropriately, adapting their techniques to accommodate children's needs and capacities. This can be especially important when interviewing alleged child abuse victims because they are often the only sources of information about the crimes in question. This places the children in

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“…whilst pointing to the dolls' vagina a child might simply say ''yes'' thinking this is the desired response. Studies have shown that free-recall questions are the best with young children and have indicated that directed questioning and anatomical dolls have deleterious effects (Goodman et al 1997: 55;Thierry et al 2005). Guiding questions are often extended to young children given that they aren't particularly loquacious and certainly because one wants to expose and punish child abusers.…”

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Child’s Play: Anatomically Correct Dolls and Embodiment

Welsh

2007

Hum Stud

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Anatomically detailed dolls have been used to elicit testimony from children in sex abuse cases. However, studies have shown they often provide false accounts in young, preschool-age children. Typically this problem is seen as a cognitive one: with age, children can correctly map their bodies onto a doll due to greater intellectual ability to represent themselves. I argue, along with the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, that although cognitive developments aid in the ability to represent one's own body, a discussion of embodiment is required in order to understand the use and abuse of anatomical dolls in forensic interviews. This paper examines these issues and maintains that a better understanding of embodied perception in both adults and children helps show how phenomenology can provide a more nuanced understanding to a troubling ethical and legal problem.

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Developmental Differences in the Function and Use of Anatomical Dolls During Interviews With Alleged Sexual Abuse Victims.

Cited by 47 publications

References 27 publications

Forty Years of Forensic Interviewing of Children Suspected of Sexual Abuse, 1974–2014: Historical Benchmarks

Forty Years of Forensic Interviewing of Children Suspected of Sexual Abuse, 1974–2014: Historical Benchmarks

Making the most of information‐gathering interviews with children

Child’s Play: Anatomically Correct Dolls and Embodiment

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