Assessing the Individual Interviewer Rapport-Building and Supportive Techniques of the R-NICHD Protocol
The use of the rapport-building and supportive techniques formulated by the R-NICHD protocol is intended to support children and increase the quality of their statements as well as disclosures without possessing suggestive potential. While the effectiveness of the entire R-NICHD protocol for childre...
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| description | The use of the rapport-building and supportive techniques formulated by the R-NICHD protocol is intended to support children and increase the quality of their statements as well as disclosures without possessing suggestive potential. While the effectiveness of the entire R-NICHD protocol for children who have actually experienced child sexual abuse (CSA) has been supported by research, to date no study assessed the effect of each individual socio-emotional interview technique in both interviewees with and without CSA experiences. The current study aimed to address this gap in research by means of an online vignette-study, asking participants to rate the identified rapport-building and supportive techniques on the scales well-being, willingness to talk, and perceived pressure. A total of 187 participants were randomly assigned to either a hypothetical “abused” or a hypothetical “not abused” group by means of a vignette-manipulation. The results suggest that many socio-emotional interview techniques were perceived as supportive and non-suggestive, while a number of techniques were perceived as not supportive but suggestive. Few differences emerged between the hypothetical “abused” group and the hypothetical “not abused” control group. To conclude, most but not all rapport-building and supportive techniques proposed by the R-NICHD protocol had a positive effect on interviewees. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-febd47597d9f48f6a81a62791d6a1ee12022-12-21T21:58:27ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782021-07-011210.3389/fpsyg.2021.659438659438Assessing the Individual Interviewer Rapport-Building and Supportive Techniques of the R-NICHD ProtocolAnett Tamm0Jana Otzipka1Renate Volbert2Renate Volbert3Psychologische Hochschule Berlin, Berlin, GermanyPsychologische Hochschule Berlin, Berlin, GermanyPsychologische Hochschule Berlin, Berlin, GermanyInstitute of Forensic Psychiatry, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, GermanyThe use of the rapport-building and supportive techniques formulated by the R-NICHD protocol is intended to support children and increase the quality of their statements as well as disclosures without possessing suggestive potential. While the effectiveness of the entire R-NICHD protocol for children who have actually experienced child sexual abuse (CSA) has been supported by research, to date no study assessed the effect of each individual socio-emotional interview technique in both interviewees with and without CSA experiences. The current study aimed to address this gap in research by means of an online vignette-study, asking participants to rate the identified rapport-building and supportive techniques on the scales well-being, willingness to talk, and perceived pressure. A total of 187 participants were randomly assigned to either a hypothetical “abused” or a hypothetical “not abused” group by means of a vignette-manipulation. The results suggest that many socio-emotional interview techniques were perceived as supportive and non-suggestive, while a number of techniques were perceived as not supportive but suggestive. Few differences emerged between the hypothetical “abused” group and the hypothetical “not abused” control group. To conclude, most but not all rapport-building and supportive techniques proposed by the R-NICHD protocol had a positive effect on interviewees.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.659438/fullR-NICHD protocolchild sexual abuserapportsupportinterviewing |
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| title | Assessing the Individual Interviewer Rapport-Building and Supportive Techniques of the R-NICHD Protocol |
| title_full | Assessing the Individual Interviewer Rapport-Building and Supportive Techniques of the R-NICHD Protocol |
| title_fullStr | Assessing the Individual Interviewer Rapport-Building and Supportive Techniques of the R-NICHD Protocol |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assessing the Individual Interviewer Rapport-Building and Supportive Techniques of the R-NICHD Protocol |
| title_short | Assessing the Individual Interviewer Rapport-Building and Supportive Techniques of the R-NICHD Protocol |
| title_sort | assessing the individual interviewer rapport building and supportive techniques of the r nichd protocol |
| topic | R-NICHD protocol child sexual abuse rapport support interviewing |
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