Abstract In child custody cases, children oftentimes provide allegations of experienced trauma against one of their parents. Such allegations can happen before any investigative interviews (e.g., by the police or child protective services) have taken place. A central theme here concerns how to appraise such allegations and make certain that children’s accounts are taken seriously. In the current special issue, the focus is on new work on the functioning of children’s memory and its relation to trauma or work on children’s suggestibility and memory when they are traumatized. Specifically, key experts in the field of children’s memory provided contributions on: (1) the impact of interviewer support and rapport building on children’s testimonies, (2) the role of parental alienation in children’s testimonial accuracy, and (3) different types of false memories in children’s memory reports.

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当儿童的证词被用作证据时：儿童的账户如何影响儿童监护决定

摘要 在儿童监护权案件中，儿童经常向其父母之一提出遭受创伤的指控。此类指控可能发生在任何调查面谈（例如，警方或儿童保护服务机构）之前。这里的一个中心主题涉及如何评估此类指控并确保认真对待儿童的陈述。在当前的特刊中，重点是关于儿童记忆功能及其与创伤的关系的新工作，或关于儿童受到创伤时的暗示性和记忆的工作。具体而言，儿童记忆领域的主要专家在以下方面做出了贡献：(1) 访谈员的支持和建立融洽关系对儿童证词的影响，(2) 父母疏远对儿童证词准确性的影响，