Development of a Tool Kit for the Child Forensic Interview to Improve the Collection of Evidence

The problem of interest is focusing on an increase for education within the forensic interviewing process for individuals within the multidisciplinary team and community stakeholders. The PICO question is: Does the development of an assessment tool kit for the child forensic interviewing process increase knowledge of qualified observations evidence by the multidisciplinary team and stakeholders. The Theoretical foundation for this research will aim to develop and present a toolkit that will enhance and positively affect the knowledge and practices of the forensic interview, based on the Iowa Method of Evidence-Based Practice and a Knowledge-to-Action structure. Methods: Methods utilized a pre-survey, presentation, and post-survey; which entailed an example of setting the stage introduction, rapport, encouraged narrative, facilitators, interview instructions, narrative practices, and follow-up questioning. The analysis of the forensic interview consisted of a model structure in which the multidisciplinary team was given a pre-survey questioning acquired knowledge from previous education, a presentation entailing a structured conversation with a child intended to elicit detailed information about a possible event or events that the child has experienced or witnessed, and a post-survey that measured knowledge gained.