Improving credibility assessment in child sexual abuse allegations: The role of the NICHD investigative interview protocol
Child Abuse & Neglect, Volume 31, Issue 2, February 2007, Pages 99-110
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Irit Hershkowitz, Sara Fisher, Michael E. Lamb, and Dvora Horowitz
"The study was designed to explore whether the credibility of children's statements regarding their alleged experiences of child sexual abuse could be assessed in a more valid and reliable way when investigative interviews were conducted using the NICHD protocol rather than in an unstructured manner. We concluded that the use of the NICHD protocol facilitated the assessment of credibility by child investigators although incredible allegations (those describing incidents that were unlikely to have happened) remained difficult to detect, even when the protocol was used."
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