Publications & Resources

Special Reports & Applied Resources

(1) Interviewing Children During COVID-19: a report on a national survey investigating how COVID-19 has impacted child maltreatment frontline workers (CCIRT)

English Report    /    French Report

(2) Forensic Interviewing: A Quick Reference Guide for Interviewing Children

Guide

(3) Receiving a Disclosure of Abuse: A Guide for Educators (CCIRT)

Guide

(4) Non-verbal Witness Evidence Use in Court: A Case Law Review and Summary

Report

Recent Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

1. Carr, S. M. A.*, Williams, S., & Evans, A. E., & Bruer, K. C. (July 2024). Lawyers Rapport Building Practices with Child Witnesses. Child Abuse and Neglect. Volume 154, August 2024, 106937 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106937

2. Bruer, K.C., Evans, A.D., & Price, H.L. (May 2024). Does Implying Peer Knowledge During an Interview Promote Truthful Disclosures from Peer Disclosure Recipients and Witnesses? Applied Developmental Science, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888691.2024.2353151 

3. Bowns, A. J.*, Giesbrecht, C. J.*, & Bruer, K. C. (2024). How judges in Canadian criminal courts define intimate partner violence. 9(2), 81–86. https://doi.org/10.35502/jcswb.387

4. Wylie, B., Bruer, K. C., Williams, S., & Evans, A. E. (online first). Lawyer questioning practices in Canadian courtrooms. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science. https://doi.org/10.1037/cbs0000413

5. Baker, M.*, Berens, K. A.*, Giesbrecht, C. J.*, Bruer, K. C., Evans, A. D., Price, H. L., & Williams, S. (2023). “Locked in a Jail Cell in Your Own Home”: Child Maltreatment Investigators’ Perspectives of COVID-19’s Effects on Maltreated Children. Child Maltreatment. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10775595231221798

6. Giesbrecht, C.J.*, Berens, K. A*, Baker, M.*, Williams, S., Bruer, K. C., Evans, A.D., & Price, H.L. (March 2023). Working with Child Victims During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study of Child Maltreatment Investigators’ Experiences. Journal of Forensic Social Work. https://doi.org/10.15763/issn.1936-9298.2023.7.1.91-110 

7. Giesbrecht, C. J.*, Edmonds, T. F*., Bowns, A. J.*, Jason, P.*, & Bruer, K. C. (In press, Dec. 2022). Intervention programs for intimate partner violence: Insights from professionals. Partner Abuse.

8. Bruer, K. C., Williams, S., & Evans, A.D. (2022). Lawyers’ Experience Questioning Children in Canadian Court. Child Abuse and Neglect. Volume 134, 105930. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105930  

9. Dykstra, V. D*., Van der Kant, R., Keller, C. E., Bruer, K. C., Price, H. L., & Evans, A. D. (In Press; Oct. 2022). The impact of the consistency of child witness and peer reports on credibility. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

10. Giesbrecht, C. J*., Edmonds, T. F.*, & Bruer, K. C. (2022). A survey of intimate partner violence intervention programs in Saskatchewan, Canada. Canadian Psychology /Psychologie canadienne. Article first published online: October 6, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1037/cap0000348   

11. Williams, S., Bruer, K. C., Evans, A.D., & Price, H. L. (May 2022). COVID-19: A National Canadian Survey on the Impact of COVID-19 on Child Maltreatment Frontline Workers. Accepted with minor revisions to Children and Youth Services Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2022.106492 

12. Baker, M.*, Berens, K. A. *, Williams, S., Bruer, K. C., Evans, A. D., Price, H. L. (2021). The Impact of COVID-19 on Social Work Practice in Canada: A Comparison of Urban and Rural Contexts. Journal of Comparative Social Work, 16(2), 141-171. https://doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v16i2.382  

13. Dykstra, V. *, Harvey, M. B.*, Bruer, K. C., Price, H. L, & Evans, A. D (2021). To disclose or not to disclose? The influence of consistency and disclosure recipient on perceptions of children’s credibility. Accepted to the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605211025021  

14. Harvey, M. B.*, Bruer, K. C., & Price, H. L. (2021). Perceptions of Familiar and Unfamiliar Ear- and Eye-Witnesses. Accepted to Psychiatry, Psychology and Law.  https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2021.1910588  

15. Bruer, K. C., Furlong, M. A. R*., Williams, S., & Evans, A. D. (2021). Adults’ sensitivity to the age-appropriateness of lawyer’s questioning of children in a physical abuse case. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement, 53(4), 469–479. https://doi.org/10.1037/cbs0000266   

16. Evans, A. D., Dykstra, V*., Bruer, K. C. & Price, H. L. (2021). Lying to Conceal a Group Transgression in Middle- to Late- Childhood. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 67(1), 75-93. https://doi.org/10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.67.1.0075  

17. Price, H. L., Bruer, K. C., Adkins, M. (2020). Using an interactive simultaneous lineup procedure can identify looking behaviour that predicts accuracy in children and adult eyewitnesses. Law and Human Behavior, 44(3), 223-237. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000364

18. Bruer, K. C., Zanette, S., Ding, X., Lyon, T. D., & Lee, K. (2020). Identifying Liars Through Automatic Decoding of Children's Facial Expressions. Child Development; 91(4), e995-e1011. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13336; USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS19-30; USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 19-30. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3449383

19. Price, H. L., Evans, A. D., & Bruer, K. C. (2019). Transmission of children’s disclosures of a transgression from peers to adults. Applied Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888691.2019.1586544 

20. Evans, A. D., O’Connor, A.M.*, Bruer, K. C., & Price, H. L. (2019). Children who disclose a minor transgression often neglect disclosing secrecy and coaching. Journal of Applied Development Psychology, 62(2), 199-204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2019.03.002

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