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- Covers the topic of malingering in psychiatry and psychology
- Includes a comprehensive analysis of the definitions, concepts, and recent research on malingering, feigning, and other response biases in psychological injury/ forensic disability populations
- Gives suggestions for future research based on the reviews and the new systems which can be readily used by psychiatrists and psychologists
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine (LIME, volume 54)
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Table of contents (34 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Psychological Injury, Malingering, Definitions, Gold Standards, Models
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Front Matter
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Malingering Detection, Law, Causality
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Psychological Injury, Assessment, Most Recent Literature
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About this book
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the definitions, concepts, and recent research on malingering, feigning, and other response biases in psychological injury/ forensic disability populations. It presents a new model of malingering and related biases, and develops a “diagnostic” system based on it that is applicable to PTSD, chronic pain, and TBI. Included are suggestions for effective practice and future research based on the literature reviews and the new systems, which are useful also because they can be used readily by psychiatrists as much as psychologists.
In Malingering, Feigning, and Response Style Assessment in Psychiatric/Psychological Injury, Dr. Young ambitiously sets out to articulate and synthesize the polarities involved in the assessment of response styles in psychological disabilities, including PTSD, pain, and TBI. He does so thoroughly and very even-handedly, neither minimizing the degree that outright faking can be found in substantial numbers of examinees, nor disregarding the possibility that there can be causes for validity test failure other than malingering. He reviews the prior systems for classifying evidence of malingering, and proposes his own criteria for feigned PTSD. These are conservative and well-grounded in the prior literature. Finally, the book contains dozens of very recent references, giving testament to Dr. Young's immersion in the personal injury literature, as might be expected from his experience as founder and Editor in Chief for Psychological Injury and the Law.
Reviewer:
Steve Rubenzer, Ph.D., ABPP
Board Certified Forensic Psychologist
Reviews
“Malingering, Feigning, and Response Bias in Psychiatric/Psychological Injury provides much food for thought and contains a great deal of content that forensic psychiatrists and psychologists, as well as clinicians, would find helpful. It would be a worthy holding for libraries at academic medical centers, as well as for specialists who frequently encounter feigned presentations of psychopathology.” (Nicholas Kontos, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Vol. 76 (4), April, 2015)
Authors and Affiliations
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Glendon College, York University, Toronto, Canada
Gerald Young
About the author
Gerald Young, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Glendon College, York University. He is Editor-in-Chief of Psychological Injury and Law and President of the Association for Scientific Advancement in Psychological Injury and Law. He has published other works in the area (e.g., Causality of Psychological Injury: Presenting Evidence in Court, 2007). His other area of research is in child development (Development and Causality: Neo-Piagetian Perspectives, 2011), which was referred to in a review as his “magnum opus” and as “remarkable.” His most recent trade book is called You Can Rejoin Joy: Blogging for Today’s Psychology (2013; rejoiningjoy.com). He may be reached at gyoung@glendon.yorku.ca.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Malingering, Feigning, and Response Bias in Psychiatric/ Psychological Injury
Book Subtitle: Implications for Practice and Court
Authors: Gerald Young
Series Title: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7899-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7898-6Published: 21 February 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0671-9Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7899-3Published: 11 February 2014
Series ISSN: 1567-8008
Series E-ISSN: 2351-955X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 925
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ethics, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry