Neuropsychology of Malingering Casebook

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

• ISBN13: 9780203890042
• ISBN10: 0203890043
• Copyright: 2008-10-27
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Clinical neuropsychologists often have to evaluate individuals within a forensic context, and therefore must address questions regarding the possible presence of malingering. This volume offers a wide range of instructive real world case examples and presentations of malingering from expert forensic colleagues for the purpose of providing informed opinions on the topic. Chapter authors detail cases of not only malingering, but those cases presenting a complex picture that requires sophisticated differential diagnosis. Related topics, such as response bias and insufficient effort, are also thoroughly discussed with regard to a large number of clinical conditions and assessment instruments.

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 DSMûIV

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 Trial and the Insanity Defense

Evaluating Competency to Stand Trial and Sanity in the Face of Marked Amnesia and Claimed Psychosis

The Malingering Incompetent Defendant

Malingering, Mental Retardation, and the Death Penalty

The Perspective of Legal Experts and Disability Decision Makers

Disability Insurance Case Management: External Consultant

Disability Insurance Case Management: Insurance Company

Social Security Adjudication: Attorney Representing Disability Claimants

Social Security Adjudication: Regional Consultant

Criminal Court: Defense Attorney

Ethics and Professional Issues

Ethical Issues in Assigning (or Withholding) a Diagnosis of Malingering

What to do after Making a Determination of Malingering

Current Status and Future Directions

Complexities of the Differential Diagnosis of Malingering: Arguments for the Use of Effort Tests with Patients

What We Currently Know About Malingering "to a Reasonable Degree of Neuropsychological Certainty" vs What We Would Like to Know in the Future

Appendices

Measures Specifically Intended to Detect Insufficient Effort and Motivation: A Cross-Referenced Bibliography

Neuropsychological and Psychological Measures Used to Identify Insufficient Effort and Malingering: A Cross-Referenced Bibliography

Additional Articles Pertinent to Malingering

Topics Common to Forensic Neuropsychology Consultation

General References

Diagnostic Criteria for Malingered Neurocognitive Dysfunction: Proposed Standards for Clinical Practice and Research (reprinted from The Clinical Neuropsychologist)

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