Neuropsychology of Malingering Casebook

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
About the editors......Page 12
List of contributors......Page 13
Foreword......Page 15
Preface......Page 17
Acknowledgments......Page 18
SECTION I: FOUNDATIONS OF MALINGERING IN NEUROPSYCHOLOGY......Page 20
1 Neuropsychology and the law: Malingering assessment in perspective......Page 22
2 Why questions regarding effort and malingering are always raised in forensic neuropsychological evaluations......Page 28
3 What clinicians really need to know about symptom exaggeration, insufficient effort, and malingering: Statistical and measurement matters......Page 40
SECTION II: CIVIL LITIGATION......Page 58
4 Multifactorial contributions to questionable effort and test performance within a military context......Page 60
5 Mild traumatic brain injury, depression, or malingered neurocognitive dysfunction: Change in zeitgeist, change in diagnosis......Page 72
6 Factitious or fictitious brain injury? An adventure in applying the DSM–IV......Page 82
7 Mild traumatic brain injury in civil litigation......Page 92
8 Malingering brain injury after whiplash trauma......Page 102
9 Brain trauma, psychiatric disturbance, premorbid factors, and malingering......Page 110
10 Moderate to severe traumatic brain injury: Probable malingering . . . and then not......Page 120
11 Definite malingering or probable malingering: Multidimensional symptom exaggeration in a case of depression......Page 141
12 Questioning common assumptions about depression......Page 151
13 Feigning mental disorders with concomitant cognitive deficits......Page 164
14 Posttraumatic stress disorder and neuropsychological malingering: A complicated scenario......Page 174
15 Feigning of psychiatric symptoms in the context of documented severe head injury and preserved motivation on neuropsychological testing......Page 189
16 Fabrication of psychiatric symptoms: Somatoform and psychotic disorders......Page 199
17 Malingering of psychiatric disorders in neuropsychological evaluations: Divergence of cognitive effort measures and psychological test validity indicators......Page 214
18 Factitious disorder in civil litigation......Page 233
19 Malingered dementia and feigned psychosis......Page 250
20 Chronic fatigue syndrome and malingering......Page 264
21 Lyme disease: Consideration of malingered disability......Page 273
22 Fibromyalgia: Resignation, restitution, and response bias......Page 284
23 Mold and the joy of malingering......Page 301
24 Alleged mold toxicity......Page 313
25 Chronic pain as a context for malingering......Page 326
26 Alleged carbon monoxide poisoning......Page 352
27 HIV disease, AIDS, and HIV-associated dementia in a secondary gain context......Page 363
28 Electrical injury and malingered cognitive dysfunction......Page 378
29 Using objective effort measures to detect noncredible cognitive test performance in children and adolescents......Page 388
30 Malingering following documented brain injury: Neuropsychological evaluation of children in a forensic setting......Page 396
31 Malingered attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Effort, depression, and dependence in the pursuit of academic accommodations......Page 405
SECTION III: CRIMINAL PROSECUTION......Page 418
32 Competency to stand trial and the insanity defense......Page 420
33 Evaluating competency to stand trial and sanity in the face of marked amnesia and claimed psychosis......Page 432
34 The malingering incompetent defendant......Page 447
35 Malingering, mental retardation, and the death penalty......Page 457
SECTION IV: PERSPECTIVES OF LEGAL EXPERTS AND DISABILITY DECISION MAKERS......Page 474
36 Disability insurance case management: External consultant......Page 476
37 Disability insurance case management: Insurance company......Page 485
38 Disability benefits adjudication: Attorney representing disability claimants......Page 495
39 Social Security adjudication: Regional consultant......Page 507
40 Personal injury court: Plaintiff attorney......Page 513
41 Criminal court: Defense attorney......Page 527
SECTION V: ETHICAL AND PROFESSIONAL ISSUES......Page 534
42 Ethical issues in assigning (or withholding) a diagnosis of malingering......Page 536
43 What to do after making a determination of malingering......Page 549
SECTION VI: CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS......Page 560
44 Complexities of the differential diagnosis of malingering: Arguments for the use of effort tests with patients......Page 562
45 What we currently know about malingering “to a reasonable degree of neuropsychological certainty” vs. what we would like to know in the future......Page 576
Forensic bibliography: Effort/malingering and other common forensic topics encountered by clinical neuropsychologists......Page 585
Appendix A: Measures specifically intended to detect insufficient effort and motivation......Page 587
Appendix B: Neuropsychological and psychological measures used to identify insufficient effort and malingering......Page 605
Appendix C: Additional articles pertinent to malingering......Page 628
Appendix D: Topics common to forensic neuropsychology consultation......Page 633
Appendix E: General Resources......Page 646
Appendix F: Diagnostic criteria for malingered neurocognitive dysfunction......Page 650
Author index......Page 668
Subject index......Page 684