Abstract
This chapter focuses on the reliability of children's autobiographical memory. We do this by first outlining the basic elements of suggestive interviews and elucidating some basic scientific principles to be used as guides when evaluating reliability or taint in interviews with children who claim to have been participants or observers of an event. Then we apply this scientific foundation to evaluating the reliability of a child's statements of sexual abuse that arose during a divorce/custody case.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry |
| Subtitle of host publication | Sixth Edition |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Pages | 250-260 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781118381953 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781118381960 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 13 2015 |
Keywords
- Child witnesses
- False memory
- Interviewing
- Legal evidence
- Memory development
- Memory distortion
- Suggestibility
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine