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）：促进虐待儿童披露儿童虐待是对儿童幸福的最严重威胁之一。同时，大量的虐待儿童从未透露虐待，以不完整且令人信服的方式披露或撤回其指控。到目前为止，很少有科学研究直接和实验研究了克服披露动机障碍的有效程序。鉴于受虐待儿童披露在保护儿童中的重要性，必须了解影响这些儿童愿意披露虐待以及其报告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，旨在识别访谈方法，以促进虐待儿童的披露，同时最大程度地减少虚假指控。该项目将解决四个具体目标：1）开发新的准备方法，以引起虐待儿童的披露而不增加虚假报告的可能性； 2）确定最大程度地提高虐待儿童披露的准确性和完整性的问题类型； 3）确定准确，完整和可靠报告的口头和非言语指数； 4）在实地访谈中实验测试新型访谈方法的功效。 AIM 1和2将涉及实验室实验研究，与SES和种族相匹配的受虐待和未经损害的儿童经历了上演事件，以使地面真相是众所周知的。采访技术将有系统地变化，以评估这些技术如何影响儿童的披露。接下来，AIM 3将涉及对儿童行为的计算机化分析，以确定真实和虚假报告的口头和非语言指数，以及对专业人士和外行人对儿童信誉的看法的评估。最后，在AIM 4中，通过实验室实验确定的最有希望的方法将用于现场实验，该实验直接测试了对社会服务所确定为潜在受害者的儿童虐待披露的访谈的影响。这是世界上这种性质的唯一研究计划：它结合了实验室和现场实验研究方法，以了解虐待儿童的披露和不公开。这项研究代表了一个前所未有的机会，可以推进儿童发展和发育心理病理学的理论，并为最佳实践访谈策略提供了批判性的见解，以优化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实践将改善调查虐待的过程，从而促进和保护儿童及其家人。