On the 17th of December 2007 Maria Keller-Hamela, an international expert in psychology, conducted a supervision in Chisinau, Moldova. As the year 2007 was devoted to the specific situation of child victims of crime who participate in legal procedures, the meeting covered the following aspects:
· Practicing interviewers’ skills in building rapport with traumatized children
· The analysis of factors facilitating and hindering communication with children
· Conditions and methods of effective interviewing:
- Interview phases
- Psychological credibility of a child witness’ testimony – evaluation criteria
- Coping with difficulties when interviewing a child.