2013-09-192013-09-192010http://hdl.handle.net/11212/315http://calio.org/images/narrative-practice-rev.2015.pdfWhile 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 numerouspdfBest Practices-InterviewingChild abuseChildren's Advocacy Center -- researchNCAC publicationText