{"id":4571,"date":"2023-03-30T17:01:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T17:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/?p=4571"},"modified":"2025-02-07T03:41:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T08:41:49","slug":"building-compassionate-expertise-in-child-abuse-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/2023\/03\/30\/building-compassionate-expertise-in-child-abuse-investigations\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Compassionate Expertise in Child Abuse Investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kadence-column4571_59c66d-6f > .kt-inside-inner-col{padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);}.kadence-column4571_59c66d-6f > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column4571_59c66d-6f > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column4571_59c66d-6f > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column4571_59c66d-6f > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column4571_59c66d-6f > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column4571_59c66d-6f > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column4571_59c66d-6f{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column4571_59c66d-6f > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 991px){.kadence-column4571_59c66d-6f > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column4571_59c66d-6f dynamic-main-col\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><style>.kb-image4571_bc94db-a5 .kb-image-has-overlay:after{opacity:0.3;}<\/style>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-kadence-image kb-image4571_bc94db-a5 size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"353\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.test.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AcademicDigest_Image_Social_03-23-2-1-750x353.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"kb-img wp-image-14832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AcademicDigest_Image_Social_03-23-2-1-750x353.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AcademicDigest_Image_Social_03-23-2-1-250x118.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AcademicDigest_Image_Social_03-23-2-1-768x362.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AcademicDigest_Image_Social_03-23-2-1.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Instructors from the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences played a vital role in training 30 professionals who deal with child abuse in forensic interview techniques. The <strong>ChildFirst\u00ae&nbsp;Forensic&nbsp;Interview Protocol<\/strong> is taught as a part of the Child Advocacy Studies Certificate Program (CAST) at Wilmington University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Held on the Dover campus, the training is a rigorous, week-long course that covers child development, memory and suggestibility, testifying in court, and legal issues to prepare professionals for interviewing children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou want to question children in a way that doesn\u2019t further traumatize their abuse or neglect,\u201d says Rosalie Morales, an adjunct instructor in the CAST program at WilmU and organizer of the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The course consists of lectures and discussion, reading assignments, review of electronically recorded interviews, skill-building exercises, and a practicum in which each participant conducts a mock forensic interview with an actor and participates in as many as 10 interviews as a peer reviewer. Each student must pass a written examination to earn a course certificate. Trainees included law enforcement professionals on the state, county, and municipal level from throughout Delaware, who frequently are the first responders in child abuse investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a multi-disciplinary approach to training, everyone in the same room, hearing the same information,\u201d says Attorney Susan Purcell, the CAST program coordinator.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instructors from the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences played a vital role in training 30 professionals who deal with child abuse in forensic interview&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-4571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-college-of-social-and-behavioral-sciences"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":2,"label":"ACADEMIC NEWS"}],"post_tag":[{"value":90,"label":"College of Social and Behavioral Sciences"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AcademicDigest_Image_Social_03-23-480x480.jpg",480,480,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Rachel Marchione","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/author\/rachel\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":2,"name":"ACADEMIC NEWS","slug":"academic-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":559,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":460,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":2,"category_count":460,"category_description":"","cat_name":"ACADEMIC NEWS","category_nicename":"academic-news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":90,"name":"College of Social and Behavioral Sciences","slug":"college-of-social-and-behavioral-sciences","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":647,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":71,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14834,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions\/14834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}