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The field of investigative interviewing is still in its infancy. In the future, interviewers might have empirically based "decision trees" to help them decide how to interview, depending on such factors as the child's age, the circumstances that necessitated the interview, and the potential uses of the resulting information. Instead, what we currently have is a set of protocols designed to increase the quality and quantity of information that interviewers elicit from children, but no information about how the choice of protocol affects the decisions professionals make on behalf of children. Despite the fact that systematic research is only in its early stages, however, remarkable similarities exist in the recommendations that have been offered by professionals throughout the world. The goal of this chapter is to describe the central features of the most widely publicized and respected guidelines in investigative interviewing. We highlight the similarities among these guidelines in this chapter, then devote the whole of chapter 4 to presenting a generic, flexible protocol that reflects areas of consensus. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)