Tag Archives: symptom exageration

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)

New MMPI-2-RF research

Two inter­est­ing and use­ful arti­cles on the MMPI-2 and MMPI-2-RF valid­ity scales in Psychological Assessment emha­size the impor­tance of the “F fam­ily” of scales in over­re­port­ing — “used in detect­ing neg­a­tive response bias aso­ci­ated with symp­tom exag­ger­a­tion, par­tic­u­larly over­re­ported symp­toms of severe psy­chopathol­ogy.”   The Sellbom arti­cle used the SIRS–the Cadillac of malin­ger­ing measures–as an exter­nal …

October 11, 2010 – 8:06 pm | By Marvin W. Acklin, Ph.D. | Posted in Assessment | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)