Neuropsychology of Malingering Casebook

by Morgan, Joel E.; Sweet, Jerry J.

• ISBN13: 9781841694788
• ISBN10: 1841694789
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-03
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

Clinical neuropsychologists frequently evaluate individuals within a forensic context, and therefore must address questions regarding the possible presence of reduced effort, response bias and/or malingering. This volume offers a wide range of instructive real-world case examples involving the complex differential diagnosis where symptom exaggeration and/or malingering cloud the picture. Written by expert forensic neuropsychologists, the scenarios described provide informed, empirically-based and scientifically-derived opinions on the topic. Issues related to malingering, such as response bias and insufficient effort, are discussed thoroughly with regard to a large number of clinical conditions and assessment instruments. Test data and non-test information are considered and integrated by the numerous experts. Expert guidance for clinicians who must address the issue of malingering is provided in a straightforward and well-organized format. To date, there has not been a comparable collection of rich case material relevant to forensic practice in clinical neuropsychology.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Foundations of Malingering in Neuropsychology

Neuropsychology and the Law: Malingering Assessment in Perspective

Why Questions Regarding Effort and Malingering are Always Raised in Forensic Neuropsychological Evaluations

What Clinicians Really Need to Know about Symptom Exaggeration, Insufficient Effort, and Malingering: Statistical and Measurement Matters

Civil Litigation

Traumatic Brain Injury in Adults

Multifactorial Contributions to Questionable Effort and Test Performance within a Military Context

Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Depression, or Malingered Neurocognitive Dysfunction: Change in Zeitgeist, Change in Diagnosis

Factitious or Fictitious Brain Injury? An Adventure in Applying the DSM-IV

Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Civil Litigation

Malingering Brain Injury after Whiplash Trauma

Brain Trauma, Psychiatric Disturbance, Premorbid Factors, and Malingering

Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Probable Malingering ... and then Not

Psychiatric and Medical Disorders

Definite Malingering or Probable Malingering: Multidimensional Symptom Exaggeration in a Case of Depression

Questioning Common Assumptions about Depression

Feigning Mental Disorders with Concomitant Cognitive Deficits

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Neuropsychological Malingering: A Complicated Scenario

Feigning of Psychiatric Symptoms in the Context of Documented Severe Head Injury and Preserved Motivation on Neuropsychological Testing

Fabrication of Psychiatric Symptoms: Somatoform and Psychotic Disorders

Malingering of Psychiatric Disorders in Neuropsychological Evaluations: Divergence of Cognitive Effort Measures and Psychological Test Validity Indicators

Factitious Disorder in Civil Litigation

Malingered Dementia and Feigned Psychosis

Difficult to Diagnose or Questionable Conditions

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Malingering

Lyme Disease: Consideration of Malingered Disability

Fibromyalgia: Resignation, Restitution, and Response Bias

Mold and the Joy of Malingering

Alleged Mold Toxicity

Chronic Pain as a Context for Malingering

Alleged Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

HIV Disease, AIDS, and HIV-Associated Dementia in a Secondary Gain Context

Electrical Injury and Malingered Cognitive Dysfunction

Pediatric and Learning/Academic Disorders

Using Objective Effort Measures to Detect Noncredible Test Performance in Children and Adolescents

Malingering Following Documented Brain Injury: Neuropsychological Evaluation of Children in a Forensic Setting

Malingered Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Effort, Depression, and Dependence in the Pursuit of Academic Accommodations

Criminal Prosecution

Competency to Stand T

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