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Podatność na sugestie dziecka wykorzystanego seksualnie
Suggestibility of sexually abused child

Author(s): Monika Zielona-Jenek
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Centrum Terapii Michał Lew-Starowicz
Keywords: suggestibility; witness credibility; sexual abuse

Summary/Abstract: Suggestibility is one of child – witness credibility’s essential determinant. Information given to child about his/her own experiences, can cause distortions of memory, and in consequence – of testimony. Assessment of testimony distortions by other people’s suggestions is a task given to court experts, among the others in sexual abuse cases. Article contains basic data about suggestibility of child – witness, strategies and diagnostic methods, useful in court expert work.

  • Issue Year: 4/2008
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 20-26
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Polish
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