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Discussion published by Liz Strong on Monday, March 13, 2023

Re: Aftercare for Interviewers When Hearing Difficult Stories

Hi Joseph,
I wrote an article on this in 2021, and I hope it can be helpful to you: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00940798.2021.1947144?journa...

There has also been helpful discussion of this in the Oral History Review Blog: https://oralhistoryreview.org/

Best of luck!
Liz

Discussion published by Alistair Thomson on Monday, March 13, 2023

Re: Aftercare for Interviewers When Hearing Difficult Stories

Here is a piece i wrote a few years back for an interview team conducting life history interviews (where you never know what might come up), The readings are a bit out of date now, but hopefully there's some use, best wishes, Al Thomson

SOME THOUGHTS ON CHALLENGING INTERVIEWS…

Al Thomson, 29 November 2012