Presented by:

Hugues Hervé, Anton Schweighofer, Susan Kim

Sponsored by:

North American Correctional and Criminal Justice Psychology Conference

Continuing Education Credits:

Notes:

Cost:

Full Delegate: Early Registration ($130+tax) - Regular Registartion ($160+tax)

Student Delegate: Early Registration ($100+tax) - Regular Registartion ($125+tax)

Please note: early registration (until end-of-day April 30th, 2019) and regular registration (after April 30th, 2019)

Duration:

Half Day (9:00 – 12:30)

Target Audience:

Clinicians and graduate students.

Skill/Difficulty Level:

Intermediate

Workshop Description:

In this workshop, participants will learn the basic knowledge and skills required to conduct effective forensic interviews. Anyone tasked with collecting reliable and valid information from individuals will benefit from attending this workshop. Participants will learn through a combination of live demonstrations and a variety of engaging experiential exercises (e.g., real plays, improv-based games).

This workshop consists of the following modules:

1. Decision-Making: Findings from research and practice indicates that, too often, errors in decision-making stem from early, rash judgements that confuse the fact-finding and assessment components of this process. This module will introduce participants to a decision-making model that emphasizes critical thinking and the importance of separating these two processes.
2. Reading People: To effectively navigate any interview, interviewers need to know how to accurately read the verbal and non-verbal behaviours of their subjects. In this module, participants will learn how to do this by: (a) collecting baseline information (i.e., how interviewees typically behave when telling the truth), (b) monitoring key behavioural channels for leakage, (c) identifying 'hot spots' (i.e., changes from baseline or inconsistencies between channels that require further investigation), and (d) testing 'hot spots.
3. Memory-Based Interviewing: Interviewing individuals about past events or future intentions is essentially an exploration of their retrospective and prospective memories. Accordingly, interviewers need to have a working knowledge of memory. This module will teach participants some interviewing techniques that facilitate memory retrieval and minimize contamination (e.g., the interview funnel).

Learning Outcomes:

1. Participants will learn a decision-making model that emphasizes critical thinking and the importance of separating the fact-finding and assessment components of decision making in order to reduce errors
2. Participants will learn how to effectively read the verbal and non-verbal behaviours of clients by: (a) collecting baseline information (i.e., how interviewees typically behave when telling the truth), (b) monitoring key behavioural channels for leakage, (c) identifying 'hot spots' (i.e., changes from baseline or inconsistencies between channels that require further investigation); and (d) testing 'hot spots'
3. Participants will learn about retrospective and prospective memory, and evidence-based interviewing techniques that facilitate memory retrieval while minimizing memory contamination