Facilitating Maltreated Children's Disclosures

促进受虐待儿童的披露

基本信息

批准号：
8644813
负责人：
THOMAS D LYON
金额：
$ 36.57万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2006
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2006-05-01 至 2016-03-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8644813
关键词：
Abuse Reporting Address Adolescent Affect California Characteristics Child Child Abuse Child Abuse and Neglect Child Behavior Child Development Child Psychology Collaborations County Development Disclosure Effectiveness Ethics Ethnic Origin Evaluation Reports Event False Allegation Family Forensic Medicine Home environment Indium Instruction Interview Interviewer Judgment Laboratories Laws Lead Legal Life Linguistics Los Angeles Methods National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Nature Outcome Perception Personal Satisfaction Persons Phase Play Procedures Process Protocols documentation Psychology Psychopathology Reporting Research Research Design Research Methodology Research Personnel Risk Series Services Social Development Social Work Staging Structure Techniques Testing Time Toy Verbal Behavior Work abuse victim adjudicate child protection computer program computerized court design efficacy testing emotional disclosure evidence base experience follow-up improved indexing innovation insight maltreated children maltreatment novel phrases programs research study social success theories tool willingness

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Facilitating Maltreated Children's Disclosures Child maltreatment is one of the most serious threats to children's well-being. At the same time, substantial percentages of maltreated children never disclose maltreatment, disclose in an incomplete and unconvincing manner, or recant their allegations. As yet, little scientific research has directly and experimentally examined effective procedures for overcoming motivational barriers to disclosure. Given the critical importance of maltreated children's disclosure for the protection of children, it is imperative to understand factors affecting these children's willingness to disclose abuse and the accuracy and completeness of their reports. The proposed program of research will involve a series of novel laboratory and field experimental studies designed to identify interviewing methods that facilitate maltreated children's disclosures while minimizing false allegations. The project will address four specific aims: 1) To develop novel preparatory methods for eliciting disclosures from maltreated children without increasing the likelihood of false reports; 2) to identify question-types that maximize the accuracy and completeness of maltreated children's disclosures; 3) to identify verbal and nonverbal indices of accurate, complete, and credible reports; and 4) to experimentally test the efficacy of novel interviewing methods in field interviews. Aims 1 and 2 will involve laboratory experimental studies with maltreated and non-maltreated children matched for SES and ethnicity who experience staged events so that ground truth is known. Interviewing techniques will be varied systematically to assess the how the techniques affect children's disclosures. Next, Aim 3 will involve computerized analyses of children's behaviors to identify the verbal and nonverbal indices of true and false reports and evaluations of professionals' and lay persons' perceptions of children's credibility. Finally, in Aim 4, the most promising approaches identified via the lab experiments will be employed in a field experiment that directly tests the effects of interviewing innovations on abuse disclosures in children identified as potential victims by social services. This is the only research program of this nature in the world: it combines laboratory and field experimental research methods to understand disclosure and non-disclosure in maltreated children. The research represents an unprecedented opportunity to advance theories of child development and developmental psychopathology and provide critical insight into best practice interview strategies that optimize accurate and credible disclosures in maltreated children. The implementation of such practices in social and legal services will improve the process by which maltreatment is investigated, and thus promote and protect children and their families.

描述（由申请人提供）：促进受虐待儿童的披露虐待儿童是对儿童福祉最严重的威胁之一。与此同时，相当大比例的受虐待儿童从未披露虐待行为，或以不完整且无法令人信服的方式披露，或撤回指控。迄今为止，很少有科学研究直接通过实验检验克服披露动机障碍的有效程序。鉴于披露受虐待儿童对于保护儿童至关重要，因此必须了解影响这些儿童披露虐待行为的意愿及其报告的准确性和完整性的因素。拟议的研究计划将涉及一系列新颖的实验室和现场实验研究，旨在确定有助于披露受虐待儿童的情况的访谈方法，同时最大限度地减少虚假指控。该项目将实现四个具体目标：1）开发新颖的准备方法，在不增加虚假报告可能性的情况下，引出受虐待儿童的披露； 2) 确定问题类型，最大限度地提高有关虐待儿童的披露的准确性和完整性； 3) 识别准确、完整和可信报告的口头和非口头指标； 4）在实地访谈中通过实验测试新颖访谈方法的有效性。目标 1 和 2 将涉及对与 SES 和种族相匹配的受虐待和未受虐待儿童进行实验室实验研究，这些儿童经历了上演的事件，以便了解基本事实。访谈技巧将系统地变化，以评估这些技巧如何影响儿童的披露。接下来，目标3将涉及对儿童行为的计算机分析，以识别真实和虚假报告的言语和非言语指标，以及专业人士和外行人士对儿童可信度的看法的评估。最后，在目标 4 中，通过实验室实验确定的最有前途的方法将用于现场实验，直接测试访谈创新对社会服务确定为潜在受害者的儿童的虐待披露的影响。这是世界上唯一的此类性质的研究计划：它结合了实验室和现场实验研究方法，以了解受虐待儿童的披露和不披露情况。这项研究为推进儿童发展和发展精神病理学理论提供了前所未有的机会，并为最佳实践访谈策略提供了批判性见解，以优化对受虐待儿童的准确和可信的披露。在社会和法律服务中实施此类做法将改善虐待行为的调查程序，从而促进和保护儿童及其家庭。