You will interview a friend or family member who is elderly, a child, or who has a developmental disability, about an event or incident in his or her daily life. Summarize the story they tell you and identify the set of interview techniques that you utilized. Explain why you used these interview techniques. Discuss what considerations you took into account prior to interviewing this individual.
Identify and define any techniques you utilized during the interview. I interviewed my grandma who is 74 going on 75 in June. I am going to use inferential interviewing and cognitive interviewing in my paper.
First, I had asked my grandma to tell me a little about herself, and what she does on a daily basis; a little about her duties. When asking her, I had used both cognitive and inferential interviewing, she did the talking while I listened to some of what she was saying then, based on her story she was giving me I would ask her questions so I can get an accurate recall, or accuracy, using inferential interviewing.
Then, when asking her the questions I had gotten words like; let me think, or I do not recall, and wait I can’t remember. All in part of being older citizen or her memory just wasn’t on cue at the point in time; which I did take into consideration prior to interviewing her that she may be a little slower at answering the questions that were asked due to memory loss or just forgetting.
When I had asked her about telling me what she does on a daily basis, we had to stop sometimes for her to have a break, (bathroom, drink and a snack). I did not do a pre-interview knowing I already know my grandma. We had done the interview in a nice quiet place, free from distractions and fairly early in the morning. I did mention to her...
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...wing my grandma. I had made sure she didn’t use verbal leakage, and verbal hedging, like using words like, um, uh and or. She did use a little of those words but not much, I can’t say if she was trying to avoid the question or she just couldn’t remember (Gosselin, 2007).
Compare and contrast at least two distinct techniques in your paper. Finally, when comparing the two techniques I would say that cognitive interviewing had the best results, especially in an elderly interview. She was able to tell me her life story without asking questions. When it came time to ask the questions for inferential interviewing she had more of a rough time cognitively coming up with her statement; which may be due to her age and memory loss.
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Gosselin, D. K. (2007). Smart talk: contemporary interviewing and interrogation. Upper Saddle
River, N.J.: Pearson Education
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The following interview was held on the 1st of March 2014 over the phone. I asked my aunt a few questions and gave her the reason...
...th the patient I kept thinking that if this were my mother how would I want the nurse to treat her. I tried to behave in the way I would expect a nurse to treat me. I had preconceived notions before meeting the patient and they were all laid to rest almost immediately, honestly I was nervous. But once I started it began to feel comfortable and the interview just flowed naturally.