Child-physician rapport at a neurodevelopmental clinic: In the eyes of the beholder.

Background: Building rapport with young patients is crucial for fostering a sense of comfort that enhances their cooperation during clinical encounters and improves clinical outcomes. The available data on children with neurodevelopmental disabilities in community-based settings, including data on child-physician rapport, is limited.

Aims: To examine how children with neurodevelopmental disabilities perceive rapport with treating physicians compared to parents and treating physicians and to evaluate the relationship between the child-reported rapport and its impact on their cooperation.

Understanding autism and its treatment: The child's perspective.

Introduction: While parents' and professionals' perceptions regarding children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have been studied extensively, limited data regarding the perspectives of children with ASD on their needs and the challenges they face are available. The study aimed to examine how children with ASD understand their condition and the aims of the interventions they undergo.

Methods: Nineteen children and adolescents (ages 5.

"You Have to Find a Way for This Child to Be at the Center": Pediatric Cardiologists' Views on Triadic Communication in Consultations on Congenital Heart Defects.

Congenital heart defects (CHDs) are present at birth and require ongoing management of personal, family, and medical aspects of care, including communication between family and medical staff. Effective communication is considered one of the main objectives of patient-centered care. Communication in pediatric medicine is especially challenging because it includes children and their parent(s), and children's cognitive and communication skills are still developing.

Children's Narrative Coherence in "Achieving Best Evidence" Forensic Interviews and Courtroom Testimony.

In the United Kingdom, Section 27 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act permits "Achieving Best Evidence" (ABE) forensic interviews to replace the evidence-in-chief in cases involving children. It is therefore imperative that forensic interviewers elicit complete, reliable, and coherent narratives from children. The goal of the current research study was to assess the coherence of forensic interviews and whether the interviewers' emotional or cognitive support was associated with increases in the coherence of these interviews.

Family Quality of Life in Children with Severe or Profound Disability: Home Versus Residential Care.

Background: Most children with severe and profound intellectual disability (SPID) are cared for in their homes, according to current recommendations. Yet, their families face marked emotional, health, and economic challenges.

Aims: The aim of this study was to examine family quality of life (FQOL) along with psychological and health factors among families who raise children with SPID at home versus those residing in residential care.

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in children with ADHD: A randomized, sham-controlled pilot study.

Background: ADHD is a common neurodevelopmental disorder with a pediatric prevalence of 5.2%.While medication treatment for ADHD is effective, it does not address all symptoms and a small but notable subgroup does not respond to medications.

Emotional valence and the types of information provided by children in forensic interviews.

Background: Emotions can powerfully affect memory retrieval although this effect has seldom been studied in everyday contexts.

Objective: This study aimed to explore the association between children's verbal emotional expressions and the type of information reported during forensic interviews.

Participants And Setting: The sample included 198 interviews with 4- to 14-year-old (M = 9.

Nonverbal Emotions While Disclosing Child Abuse: The Role of Interviewer Support.

Statements by alleged victims are important when child abuse is prosecuted; triers-of-fact often attend to nonverbal emotional expressions when evaluating those statements. This study examined the associations among interviewer supportiveness, children's nonverbal emotions, and informativeness during 100 forensic interviews with alleged victims of child abuse. Raters coded the silent videotapes for children's nonverbal emotional expressions while other raters coded the transcripts for interviewer support, children's verbal emotions, and informativeness.

The dynamics of two-session interviews with suspected victims of abuse who are reluctant to make allegations.

Supportive forensic interviews conducted in accordance with the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Revised Protocol (RP) help many alleged victims describe abusive experiences. When children remain reluctant to make allegations, the RP guides interviewers to (a) focus on rapport building and nonsuggestive support in a first interview, and (b) plan a second interview to allow continued rapport building before exploring for possible abuse. We explored the dynamics of such two-session RP interviews.

Increased risk for child maltreatment in those with developmental disability: A primary health care perspective from Israel.

Background: Child Maltreatment (CM) is a worldwide phenomenon. Literature suggests that children with disabilities are at increased risk for CM. However, limited information exists regarding if such increased risk is noted in community primary care clinics.

Facilitating the Expression of Emotions by Alleged Victims of Child Abuse During Investigative Interviews Using the Revised NICHD Protocol.

Children's testimony is often critical to the initiation of legal proceedings in abuse cases. In forensic interviews, the expression of emotions can powerfully enhance both the quality of children's statements and perceptions that their statements are coherent and credible. However, children rarely express their emotions when reporting abusive events.

Is interviewer support associated with the reduced reluctance and enhanced informativeness of alleged child abuse victims?

Child maltreatment victims are often reluctant to report abuse when formally interviewed. Evidence-based guidelines like the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Standard Investigative Interview Protocol do not adequately address such reluctance because they are focused on cognitive rather than socioemotional strategies. The present study was designed to determine whether the Revised National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Protocol, which emphasizes supportive interviewing more than the standard protocol does, might predict increases in the overall informativeness and reductions in the reluctance of alleged victims.

Child maltreatment identification rates in a child development center: suggestions for improved detection.

Unlabelled: Under-identification of child maltreatment (CM) remains a significant problem. The study aim was to examine rates of CM identification in a child development center (CDC) vs. a community clinic (CC).

Family quality of life among families with a child who has a severe neurodevelopmental disability: Impact of family and child socio-demographic factors.

We aimed to examine family quality of life (FQOL) of Northern Israeli families having a child with a severe neurodevelopmental disability and its relation to socio-demographics. The cohort included caregivers of 70 children ages (mean ± standard deviation) 5.36 ± 3.