Two key problems exist in dealing with child witnesses, lack of thoughtfulness among legal professionals and institutionalized problems. Various countries have different legal procedures for handling child sexual abuse cases, making it difficult to develop model procedures. In the Netherlands, for example, difficulties are imposed on psychologists involved in child sexual abuse cases. This country has a rule that an expert witness cannot receive any information about a case prior to conducting an interview with the alleged sexual abuse victim. Germany has a long tradition of using statement analysis as an evaluation procedure to assess the credibility of child witnesses. Procedures used in England, Israel, Norway, and Canada to interview and assess sexually abused child witnesses are noted, and the reliability of children's testimony is discussed. 15 references