Neuropsychology of malingering casebook /

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Imprint:New York : American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology : Psychology Press, c2009.
Description:xvii, 677 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Language:English
Series:American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology/Psychology Press continuing education series
American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology/Psychology Press continuing education series.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7535012
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Other authors / contributors:Morgan, Joel E.
Sweet, Jerry J.
American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology.
ISBN:9781841694788 (hbk)
1841694789 (hbk)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Section I. 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
  • Section II. 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
  • Section III. Criminal Prosecution
  • Competency to Stand T