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Adults in many settings sometimes question children with the goal of discovering information about their experiences. When a variety of professionals (e.g., police officers, social workers, clinical psychologists, physicians) engage in this for the purpose of gaining information that is legally relevant this process is generally called “a forensic interview.” When the goal of the forensic interview is to discover from the child some information about whether or not he or she has been sexually abused, and if so, details about this abuse, this process may be called “a forensic interview of a child regarding sexual abuse status.”
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O’Donohue, W.T., Fanetti, M. (2016). Psychometric Analysis of Forensic Interviews and Post Hoc Interview Evaluations. In: O'Donohue, W., Fanetti, M. (eds) Forensic Interviews Regarding Child Sexual Abuse. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21097-1_19
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