Training Overview
Children’s experiences of trauma can significantly influence how memories are encoded, stored, and retrieved. For forensic interviewers, understanding the impact of trauma on memory is critical in conducting effective, developmentally appropriate, and legally defensible interviews. This webinar will go over how traumatic experience can affect memory processes. In this webinar I will discuss how this might show up in forensic interviews and how to address how this might impact the Forensic interview.
Learning Objectives
- Describe how trauma affects the brain systems invovled in memory processing in children
- Identify how trauma impacts memory and how this might show up in forensic interviews