Expressions of shame in investigative interviews with Australian Aboriginal children
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- 作者：Gemma Hamilton ; Sonja P. Brubacher ; Martine B. Powell
- 关键词：Child sexual abuse ; Indigenous populations ; Investigative interview ; Shame
- 刊名：Child Abuse & Neglect
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：January 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：51
- 期：Complete
- 页码：64-71
- 全文大小：331 K
文摘
This study inspected a sample of 70 interview transcripts with Australian Aboriginal children to gain a sense of how frequently verbal shame responses were occurring in investigative interviews regarding alleged sexual abuse. Transcripts were examined to determine how children articulated shame, how interviewers reacted to these responses, and how shame related to children's accounts. Examination of frequencies revealed that verbal shame responses occurred in just over one-quarter of the interviews. One-way analyses of variance indicated that children who expressed shame within the interview spoke the same amount as children who did not express shame, however, they required more interviewer prompts before a disclosure was made. Interviews where children expressed shame also included a greater number of interviewer reminders compared to interviews without shame responses. Results emphasize the importance of interviewer awareness of shame, and also point to the value of reassurance, patience, and persistence with non-leading narrative prompting when interviewing children who express shame during discussions of sexual abuse.