This study examines several psychological reports to verify whether consultant
psychologists use scientifically based procedures during clinical assessment of sexually …

Background Child sexual abuse, being most of the time a hidden crime that is kept lifelong
undisclosed, was found to have strong influence on the victim. Unless a hard evidence …

This chapter begins by examining how memory operates and the strategies that must be
employed in order to encode, store and later retrieve material accurately from memory. This …

Interviewing young traumatized children, particularly those traumatized by physical and
sexual abuse, is difficult, not only because of children's recall deficiencies, but more often …

Within the court arena, the credibility and competency of child witnesses often comes under
scrutiny and the decision whether a child is considered to be credible or not strongly …

This paper describes three types of child maltreatment prevention efforts (primary,
secondary and tertiary prevention). The relative importance and uses of child maltreatment …

This article is written to help prosecutors as well as defense counsel gain more knowledge
of the science relevant to child sex abuse allegations. Increased knowledge reduces …

Conhecer as diferentes etapas do desenvolvimento humano é uma competência essencial
para o entrevistador em contexto policial e forense. É imprescindível adaptar a entrevista …

Used in many communities, Theatre for Development (TfD) allows performers and
audiences to interrogate their cultural history and their society to promote positive social …

We focus on three topics regarding which legal practice concerning youth has been at least
somewhat responsive to input from developmental scientists. We first discuss the ways in …