Narrative Practice (What is it and Why is it Important?)
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2010
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National Children's Advocacy Center
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While all interview protocols recommend a rapport-building phase, they do not reflect consensus about the most effective way to develop rapport. A substantial body of research demonstrates that emphasizing a narrative practice approach in the early stage of the interview increased children s informative responses to open-ended prompts in the substantive portion of the interview. Given a more narrative practice approach, the children additionally, provided more details without interviewers having to resort to more direct or leading prompts (Hershkowitz, 2009; Lamb et al., 2008; Poole & Lamb, 1998; Sternberg et al., 1997). The benefits from the narrative practice in the rapport-building session are numerous
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Best Practices-Interviewing, Child abuse, Children's Advocacy Center -- research, NCAC publication