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Cyr, Mireille; Lamb, Michael E. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2009
Objectives: The study was designed to assess the effectiveness of the flexibly structured NICHD Investigative Interview Protocol for child sexual abuse (CSA) investigative interviews by police officers and mental health workers in Quebec. The NICHD Protocol was designed to operationalize "best practice" guidelines and to help forensic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interviews, Investigations, French
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Dion, Jacinthe; Cyr, Mireille – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2008
This study explored the impact of the NICHD protocol to enhance the quantity and content of details reported by children with low verbal abilities. Thirty-four children aged from 6 to 14 were interviewed following their experience of sexual abuse. Half the interviews were conducted using the NICHD protocol. Results indicate that NICHD interviews…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Verbal Ability, Interviews, Prompting
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Cyr, Mireille; Wright, John; Toupin, Jean; Oxman-Martinez, Jacqueline; McDuff, Pierre; Theriault, Chantal – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2003
Maternal support received by sexual abuse victims is considered a key factor in coping with the aftermath of abuse. The present study looked at four groups of potential predictors of maternal support: mother's psychosocial characteristics, abuse characteristics, victim's characteristics, and disclosure characteristics. A total of 120 adolescents…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Adolescents, Victims of Crime, Mothers