A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Malingering, Pedophilia, Pathological Lying
Document Summary
Handbook of forensic psychopathology and treatment: deception: faking good or bad malingering is defined as: the intentional production of false or grossly exaggerated physical or psychological symptoms motivated by external incentives. Types of deception: faking good: exaggerating positive features, systematic denial of coplaints, termination of mandatory psychiatric treatment, faking bad: malingering: deliberate exaggeration, fabrication, or misattribution of symptoms, financial compensation, get meds, reducing criminal responsibility. Identifies persons who are defensive or want to manipulate findings: symptom validity test svt, yes no, below chance performance indicates malingering. Diagnostic accuracy of the structured inventory of malingered. Sims (75 items: five subscales (15 each) Low intelligence (li: affective disorders (af, neurological impairment (n, psychosis (p, amnestic disorders (am, high sensitivity and specificity (total scores), lower in subscales. Correlation fantasy proneness and sims: positive response bias. Critiquing symptom validity tests for posttraumatic stress disorder: a modification of hartman"s criteria.
