Supportive or suggestive: Do human figure drawings help 5 ' 7 year old children to report touch?

Lewis, C. N. and Brown, D. and Lamb, M. E. and Pipe, M. (2007) Supportive or suggestive: Do human figure drawings help 5 ' 7 year old children to report touch? Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 75 (1). pp. 33-42. ISSN 0022-006X

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Abstract

The authors examined the accuracy of information elicited from seventy-nine 5- to 7-year-old children about a staged event that included physical contact-touching. Four to six weeks later, children's recall for the event was assessed using an interview protocol analogous to those used in forensic investigations with children. Following the verbal interview, children were asked about touch when provided with human figure drawings (drawings only), following practice using the human figure drawings (drawings with instruction), or without drawings (verbal questions only). In this touch-inquiry phase of the interview, most children provided new information. Children in the drawings conditions reported more incorrect information than those in the verbal questions condition. Forensically relevant errors were infrequent and were rarely elaborated on. Although asking children to talk about innocuous touch may lead them to report unreliable information, especially when human figure drawings are used as aids, errors are reduced when open-ended prompts are used to elicit further information about reported touches.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
Additional Information:
A true international collaboration. The study was mainly the idea of Lamb and Pipe, executed by Brown and Lewis, coding by Orbach, written collectively, particularly by Brown & Lewis, but corrected by Pipe. Lewis was PI on the two grants which held the team together (FRST award and ESRC RES-00-23-0949: awarded grade of 'Oustanding' by ESRC). RAE_import_type : Journal article RAE_uoa_type : Psychology
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? clinical psychologypsychiatry and mental healthbf psychology ??
ID Code:
3601
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Deposited On:
10 Mar 2008 14:52
Refereed?:
Yes
Published?:
Published
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