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Developed for child interviewers by child interviewers, A Child Interviewer’s Guidebook integrates comprehensive coverage of research along with extensive clinical experience. Created in an accessible format, this guidebook is written by a group of authors with more than 60 years of collective experience in the field of child interviewing. The authors’ multidisciplinary backgrounds include former child protection service workers, a police officer, an attorney, a psychologist, and a social worker. The authors’ understanding of the clinical realities of child interviewing and their ability to integrate these with current research make this book a unique synopsis of the art and science of forensic interviewing of children. The book’s coverage of forensic interviewing topics is complete, from deciding which children could benefit from a forensic interview, gathering background information, and preparing the room, to posing appropriate questions and using tools, to closing and documenting the interview. Special topics covered include memory and suggestibility, responding to non-disclosure and false allegations, working with special needs children, and managing abuse allegations in the context of custody disputes. A Child Interviewer’s Guidebook is clearly written and organized so it may also be used as a quick research reference for court appearances.

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Frightening.......2003-12-01

I certainly hope Ray Broderick is not actively interviewing children and I desperately hope the courts do not listen to his analysis as there will most certainly be excess adults in prison for false accusations of abuse of all kinds. Ray's approach is misleading children more than some offenders have done. I do not condone this at all! There is brainwashing, leading to obvious ends that a child would love to answer in favor of condemming someone due to the rewards as opposed to the correct response. When we do this, we also damage our children. I say no, absolutely no, do not support this team at all. Horrible book and depressing.

Interviewing Children: A Guide for Child Care and Forensic Practitioners

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Interviewing Children: A Guide for Child Care and Forensic Practitioners
Michelle Aldridge , and Joanne Wood
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Guide to Interviewing Children: Essential Skills for Counsellors, Social Workers, Police Lawyers
Investigative Interviews of Children: A Guide for Helping Professionals
Jeopardy in the Courtroom: A Scientific Analysis of Children's Testimony
Expert Witnesses in Child Abuse Cases: What Can and Should Be Said in Court

ASIN: 0471970522

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The process of interviewing a child can be a daunting experience for both the child and the interviewer. Interviewing Children offers practical advice for understanding the linguistic abilities of children and for applying that knowledge effectively to the evidentiary interview. Drawing on real transcript data and data from language games with presumed non-abused children, the authors examine each stage of the phased interview as outlined in the Memorandum of Good Practice.
Incorporating case studies, checklists, and self-assessment sheets, Interviewing Children provides step-by-step guidelines for
· establishing an effective interview setting
· building rapport with the child
· overcoming the difficulties that can arise when eliciting free narrative accounts
· understanding which question types to use and which to avoid
· identifying and using age-appropriate language
· interviewing disabled children and those who are bilingual or use a minority language
This books practical and jargon-free approach will appeal to anyone involved in interviewing children, including police officers, social workers, lawyers, paediatricians, and psychologists.

Development of computer-assisted interviewing procedures for the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (SuDoc HE 20.422:3)

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Development of computer-assisted interviewing procedures for the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (SuDoc HE 20.422:3)
U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services
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Interviewing in Health and Human Services

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Interviewing as a difficult task

Interviewing in Health and Human Services
Krishna Samantrai
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This text presents an innovative approach to learning and teaching the art of interviewing in the increasingly diverse and complex field of human services. Using a clear straightforward language, Samantrai explains abstract concepts, principles, and techniques of professional practice. Then, by presenting complete recordings of actual case interviews, she illustrates how these theories translate into everyday application. Line-by-line analysis alongside the interviews allows the student to examine the client's exact words, nonverbal behaviors, and psychological processes, and assess the worker's skills and techniques.

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Interviewing as a difficult task.......2006-12-28

Issues of diversity and various emphases on culture, etc have made the interviewing process more difficult and complicated. Recently this book was recommended to me by an instructor. Although it is ten years old, it provides a wonderful approach and framework for a biopsychosocial model that breaks the interviewing process into more simplified parts. This makes the interview process more manageable. It also helps retain meaning while providing a method or schematic that enables the interviewer to gain greater insight and understanding of the person, which has the effect of preserving the identity of the individual (or group for that matter).

In fact, this is the beauty of the approach this book takes, because it is not simply a structural view, although the structure is critical, rather it is how you can use structure in an interview to isolate out the biopsychosocial issues and still have a person left--rather than a heap of data and facts whose meaning corresponds to a process or an assessment heavily focused on external issues/responses. All in all, this approach permits a better understanding to personal identity and how one relates from the inside out; instead of testing the person to see how they might react externally, and basing an assessment of what is going on iniside the person on external issues rather than one's internality where the issues are actually formed, housed and taking place.

Interviewing skills to use with abuse victims who have developmental disabilities (SuDoc HE 1.1002:AB 9/6/CORR.)

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Interviewing skills to use with abuse victims who have developmental disabilities (SuDoc HE 1.1002:AB 9/6/CORR.)
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An Analytical Method to Calculate Activity from Measurements Affected by Coincidence Summing
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An Analytical Method to Calculate Activity from Measurements Affected by Coincidence Summing

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This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSONAFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A060533. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: An analytical method is developed and applied to find the activities of two radioisotopes based on measurements influenced by true coincidence summing. The method incorporates the solid angle subtended by the detector, the macroscopic cross sections of the materials present, the absolute peak and total efficiencies of the detector, and the modes and probabilities of decay of the radioisotope. With this information, the method corrects for both summing-in and summing-out events. Summing events affect peak counts and cause the calculated activity to differ from the true activity. Thin disk sources of Mo-99 and Cs-136 on the face of a closed-end, coaxial high purity germanium detector have been studied. For Mo-99, the analytical method shows there is a 29% reduction in the 740 keV peak counts due to summing events. This factor adjusts the no- coincidence-assumed activity to within 4.0% of the correct value. As for Cs-136, the analytical method shows a 41% reduction in the 1048 keV peak counts. This factor corrects the simplistic activity to within 0.5% of the correct value. Hence, the results indicate that coincidence summing is the primary cause of activity discrepancies for the given configuration.

Bibliography of Leishmania and leishmanial diseases (Special publication / United States Naval Medical Research Unit Number Three)

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Characterization of canine leishmaniasis in the United States: Pathogenesis, immunological responses, and transmission of an American isolate of Leishmania infantum : (Dissertation)

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Characterization of canine leishmaniasis in the United States: Pathogenesis, immunological responses, and transmission of an American isolate of Leishmania infantum : (Dissertation)
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Detection of Special Nuclear Material with High Purity Germanium (HPGe) and Mercuric Iodide (HgI2) Gamma Detectors

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Detection of Special Nuclear Material with High Purity Germanium (HPGe) and Mercuric Iodide (HgI2) Gamma Detectors

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The Effects of Ionizing Radiation on Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Actuators: Electrostatic, Electrothermal, and Residual Stress

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The Effects of Ionizing Radiation on Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Actuators: Electrostatic, Electrothermal, and Residual Stress

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Leishmania (World Class Parasites)

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Leishmania parasites cause a diverse group of diseases endemic to many tropical and subtropical regions of the world. This volume seeks to bring together recent research on cell and molecular biology of Leishmania with chapters on the host response to infection, the current epidemiology of leishmaniasis, explanations of the many different species, vector control, and strategies for vaccine development and drug treatment.
Leishmania, volume four of World Class Parasites, is written for researchers, students and scholars who enjoy reading research that has a major impact on human health, or agricultural productivity, and against which we have no satisfactory defense. It is intended to supplement more formal texts that cover taxonomy, life cycles, morphology, vector distribution, symptoms and treatment. It integrates vector, pathogen and host biology and celebrates the diversity of approach that comprises modern parasitological research.

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Review by Kinetoplastid Biology and Disease.......2004-05-06

This book is a useful reference for researchers, especially for updated information presented in table form for Leishmania spp. (pp. 3 and 14-6), sand fly vectors (pp. 34-5) and regimens of chemotherapy (pp. 135-6). Authors were well-chosen to introduce the topics of their own research presented in 11 chapters (~15 pages each). Most chapters are, by necessity, focused largely on the authors' own work or views due apparently to page limitation. This is adequate and even desirable for frequently reviewed subjects, such as sand fly biology by Killick-Kendrick; or a relatively specific or new topic, which is naturally so or made so by the authors' skills, such as membrane transport by Landfear and Leishmania infection on macrophage function by Matlashewski. These chapters are thus probably most friendly to the general reader. The same can be said to a greater or lesser extent for chapters on macrophage receptors for Leishmania by Mosser and Brittingham, chemotherapy of leishmanasis by Zilberstein and Ephros, and Leishmania-sand fly interactions by Kamhawi. The space allocated is clearly insufficient to account for all necessary details, diversities and unknowns in the epidemiology of human and canine leishmaniasis, as presented by Dedet, Shaw and Campino as well as for the complexities and uncertainties in the immunobiology of leishmaniasis by Kaye, Farrell and Campos-Neto. These chapters will undoubtedly be appreciated by the specialists, but may not be by general readers who have little or no prior exposure to the caveat or nuance of Leishmania epidemiology and immunology. An exception to this may be the chapter by Campos-Neto on vaccines, since this is an area of great interest, and since some data from work in progress were presented. The book would be improved with the addition of another chapter or two on cell and molecular biology of Leishmania to discuss, for example, some exciting discoveries and development, e. g. unique cell organelles (e. g. tubular lysosomes, acidocalcisomes), glycobiology, gene expression, genome project, molecular genetics, kinetoplast RNA editing. Some of these topics are trypanosomatid-, but not necessarily Leishmania-specific. Still, our knowledge of how parasites and hosts work at cellular and molecular levels is crucial in our attempt to understand their interactions that makes leishmaniasis so unique in all aspects from epidemiology to immunobiology. There is high hope to render these biological phenotypes less descriptive and more clearly defined by genomic, proteomic, glyconomic, metabolomic and other bioinformatic approaches.

There are several non-scientific distractions. There appears to be no copy-editing work, resulting in too many incomplete literature citations (four in pp. 147-50), and many typographic errors in the text, including two in the Preface. The Index is too brief and chapters are illustrated with very few diagrams and no photographs. These deficiencies are possibly due to a desire for rapid publication to keep chapters current and/or to cost-cutting measures established by the publisher.

Nevertheless, many readers will find interesting thoughts and insights from their own perspectives in many chapters of this book, including this reviewer with decades of exposure to Leishmania and leishmaniasis. I find Shaw's historical view on this disease in the Amazon region interesting, as described in his chapter on South American leishmaniasis. His writing on the separation of subgenous Leihsmania and Viannia clarifies some confusion of our own experimental data. It is also interesting that PKDL is thought to result from the targeting of effector function against parasites in the skin of patients recovering from VL after chemotherapy, as stated by Kaye citing the work of Theander's group. These are just several examples of my own deficiencies rectified by reading this book. Other readers will find specific points of interest according to their own backgrounds and knowledge.

The editor and serial editors deserve our appreciation and congratulations for their successful endeavour by putting this volume together for publication. There has been no hard cover book devoted to Leishmania since the late 1980's. This book may well be the last one of this kind, since in this era of information highway, the next book on Leishmania and leishmaniasis is likely to be electronically digitized for sale in the website. I will make sure to keep my copy around and urge you all to rush order a copy before it is sold.
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Review by Kinetoplastid Biology and Disease.......2004-05-06

This volume provides an overdue, well-needed and succinct update on the clinical, epidemiological, ecological and basic science aspects (immunology, pathophysiology, drug resistance and metabolism) of leishmaniasis by experts in the field. Leishmaniasis is widely distributed throughout the world; the disease threatens 350 million people in 88 countries world-wide. However, not since the Chang and Bray and/or Killick-Kendrick and Peters volumes published approximately 25 years ago has there been a monograph published providing a current and complete overview of the field. This has been to the detriment of those who teach parasitology or to anyone entering this field. Comprehensive reviews suitable as readings for advanced undergraduate or graduate students are rare. Further, most reviews are highly focused and specialized to the exclusion of providing a general biological overview. In a quickly evolving field, such as leishmaniasis, this is understandable; however, it is to the credit of Dr. Farrell (who edited this volume) that this deficiency has been filled. Each chapter is succinct, yet covers an important aspect of the biology, ecology. epidemiology or clinical disease; references provided are particularly useful.

Leishmaniasis is a spectrum of diseases ranging from the cutaneous, to visceral; the diverse clinical forms of disease are caused by multiple species, with different reservoir hosts and insect vectors. Hence, there is considerable complexity in the biology to be understood, as indicated by the first four chapters by Drs. Dedet, Shaw, Killick-Kendrick and Campino. The first four chapters provide an overview of the epidemiology of this spectrum of diseases and include reviews of the ecology of New World leishmaniasis, biology of phlebotomine sand flies (insect vector), and epidemiology of visceral leishmaniasis. The next chapters focus on topics devoted to understanding the biology of the host-parasite and vector-parasite interactions. The chapter by Dr. Kamhawi on the Leishmania parasites within the digestive tract of phlebotomine sand flies summarizes important aspects relevant to parasite transmission, namely, the relationship of LPG to parasite vector-midgut association as well as the effect of salivary components on the transmission of disease. The interactions of the parasite with the macrophage are covered in the next two chapters. The immunological consequences of receptor-ligand interactions (CR3, FcR, CR1) utilized in parasite uptake in terms of the establishment and maintenance of infection are presented (Drs. Mosser and Brittingham). This section discusses the differences between the promastigotes (seen only in the initiation of infection) and amastigote (found during chronic infection in the mammalian host) developmental stages in these processes. The effect of infection on the function of macrophages is relevant to immunology (as macrophages are important antigen-presenting cells). The parasite clearly causes impairment in the signal transduction pathways utilized for macrophage activation by various cytokines and chemokines; hence, these signal transduction pathways may represent potential chemotherapeutic targets. This topic is discussed in the chapter by Dr. Matlashewski. The chapter by Drs. Zilberstein and Ephros covers chemotherapy, and reviews existing therapies, and discusses what is currently known about the mode of drug action and mechanisms of drug resistance. The last three chapters (Drs. Kaye, Farrell, and Campos-Neto) are focused on what is known concerning the immune response to leishmanial infection - our understanding of the mechanisms of pathogenesis as well as recent progress towards the development of vaccine against cutaneous leishmaniasis. Concise, these provide a thoughtful overview of what has been determined about immune mechanisms that control infection. The chapter on cutaneous leishmaniasis is appropriately focused on Leishmania major, which has been the mainstay of immunological studies. However, given the distinctions found for New World Leishmania (L. mexicana complex) from L. major, additional information concerning this aspect would have provided a more complete picture of the diversity of pathogenesis. The fact that we need to know more about the human immune response to infection is underscored in these chapters and the important advances made in the past decade concerning the immunological features of visceral and cutaneous diseases are clearly presented. In short, "World Class Parasites: LEISHMANIA" provides a long overdue concise, yet comprehensive current overview of the leishmaniases - what has been learnt over the past 25 years - and what remains to be understood about this interesting genus of parasitic protozoans!
Diane McMahon-Pratt, Kinetoplastid Biology and Disease 2003, 2:9

Leishmania amazonensis and macrophage interactions: Immune factors necessary to kill the parasite : (Dissertation)
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