The effects of drawing on children's accounts of sexual abuse.

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Katz, Carmit Hershkowitz, Irit
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	This study was designed to explore the effects of event drawing during investigative interviews on the richness of the accounts made by children. The sample included 125 children aged 4 to 14 years, alleged victims of sexual abuse. The children were first interviewed with open-ended invitations before they were randomly assigned into one of two interview conditions: with (n = 69) or without (n = 56) event drawing, and then reinterviewed. Children in the drawing group disclosed more free recall information about the abusive events than children in the comparison group, including central details about people, actions, time, and location of the incidents. The effect of drawing was evident regardless of child's age, gender, type of abuse, and time delay. These findings suggest that event drawing, as used in this study, can enhance children's forensic statements in child abuse investigations.
Starting Page	459
Ending Page	466
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://www.safetylit.org/citations/ild_request_form.php?article_id=citjournalarticle_169339_33
PubMed reference number	19926626v1
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.1177/1077559509351742
DOI	10.1177/1077559509351742
Journal	Child maltreatment
Volume Number	15
Issue Number	2
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Drug abuse PersonNameUse - assigned Physiological Sexual Disorders Sixty Nine child abuse behavior
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article