What is she best known for?
The fields of study she is best known for:
- Developmental psychology
- Social psychology
- Psychiatry
Her main research concerns Sexual abuse, Child abuse, Interview, Victimology and Psychiatry.
Sexual abuse combines with fields such as Utterance and Developmental psychology in her investigation.
Child abuse connects with themes related to Child sexual abuse in her study.
Child sexual abuse is a primary field of her research addressed under Suicide prevention.
Her Interview research includes themes of Social psychology and Medical education.
Her work in Psychiatry addresses subjects such as Self-disclosure, which are connected to disciplines such as Blame and Dysfunctional family.
Her most cited work include:
- A structured forensic interview protocol improves the quality and informativeness of investigative interviews with children: a review of research using the NICHD Investigative Interview Protocol (408 citations)
- Assessing the value of structured protocols for forensic interviews of alleged child abuse victims. (369 citations)
- Exploring the disclosure of child sexual abuse with alleged victims and their parents. (260 citations)
What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?
Her primary areas of study are Sexual abuse, Child abuse, Interview, Suicide prevention and Clinical psychology.
Her work on Child sexual abuse and Victimology as part of general Sexual abuse research is often related to Developmental psychology, thus linking different fields of science.
Her work on Physical abuse is typically connected to Psychiatry, Self-disclosure, Allegation and Protocol as part of general Child abuse study, connecting several disciplines of science.
Her research ties Medical education and Interview together.
Irit Hershkowitz works mostly in the field of Suicide prevention, limiting it down to concerns involving Injury prevention and, occasionally, Human factors and ergonomics.
The Clinical psychology study combines topics in areas such as Legal psychology and Age differences.
She most often published in these fields:
- Sexual abuse (44.32%)
- Child abuse (42.05%)
- Interview (36.36%)
What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2017-2021)?
- Child abuse (42.05%)
- Clinical psychology (31.82%)
- Interview (36.36%)
In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:
Her primary scientific interests are in Child abuse, Clinical psychology, Interview, Suicide prevention and Human factors and ergonomics.
Irit Hershkowitz integrates Child abuse with Psychiatry in her research.
There are a combination of areas like Physical abuse, Sexual abuse and Protocol integrated together with her Clinical psychology study.
Irit Hershkowitz works in the field of Sexual abuse, focusing on Child sexual abuse in particular.
Irit Hershkowitz regularly links together related areas like Medical education in her Interview studies.
Suicide prevention is closely attributed to Injury prevention in her study.
Between 2017 and 2021, her most popular works were:
- ‘Language of lies’: Urgent issues and prospects in verbal lie detection research (20 citations)
- Tell Me What Happened: Questioning Children about Abuse (16 citations)
- Support, reluctance, and production in child abuse investigative interviews. (12 citations)
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