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PTSD and Malingering: Practice Pointers

There appears to be a dra­matic split among men­tal health pro­fes­sion­als who write pri­mar­ily from a treat­ment or plain­tiff per­spec­tive and those who take a more skep­ti­cal approach. This arti­cle by Steve Rubenzer reviews recent devel­op­ments in the assess­ment of malin­ger­ing, includ­ing symp­tom valid­ity mea­sures, and applies them to the assess­ment of PTSD. Recommendations for cur­rent prac­tice are provided.

November 2, 2010 – 9:37 pm | By J. Gregory Turnbull, Psy.D., J.D. | Posted in Assessment, Expert witness, Law | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Work in progress: Self-report Validity Indicators

Over the years, as my psy­cho­log­i­cal assess­ment work trans­formed from pri­mar­ily clin­i­cal to pri­mar­ily foren­sic, we began to notice the impact on self-report valid­ity scales (L, K, PIM, NIM, etc.); namely, they tended to ele­vate in eval­u­a­tion  con­texts where the out­come depended on a pos­i­tive pic­ture, in the under-reporting direc­tion (so called “fake good”). Impression man­age­ment has …

September 29, 2010 – 6:57 am | By Marvin W. Acklin, Ph.D. | Posted in Assessment, Expert witness, Law | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)