Assessment of Feigned Cognitive Impairment A

Comprehensive and user friendly, this book synthesizes the growing literature on symptom feigning in cognitive testing and translates it into evidence-based recommendations for clinical and forensic practice. A wide range of cognitive effort assessment techniques and strategies are critically reviewed, including both dedicated measures and the use of embedded indicators in standard clinical tests. The book describes approaches to distinguishing between credible and noncredible performance in specific clinical populations: persons presenting with head injury, chronic pain and fatigue, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and learning disability, mental retardation, seizures, and exposure to environmental toxins. Special topics include the potentially confounding effects of psychiatric disorder and ethnocultural factors on effort testing, and cognitive assessment in the criminal forensic setting.

Kyle Brauer Boone, PhD, is Professor-in-Residence in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, and Director of Neuropsychological Services and Training in the Department of Psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in professional journals in the area of neuropsychological assessment and is a coauthor of Handbook of Normative Data for Neuropsychological Assessment. Dr. Boone has also published two tests used to assess for effort on neuropsychological exams: the b Test and the Dot Counting Test.

Feigning of physical, psychiatric, and cognitive symptoms examples from history, the arts, and animal behavior	p. 3
Functional neuroimaging of deception and malingering	p. 13
A reconsideration of the Slick et al. (1999) criteria for malingered neurocognitive dysfunction	p. 29
Spoiled for choice : making comparisons between forced-choice effort tests	p. 50
Non-forced-choice measures to detect noncredible cognitive performance	p. 78
Intelligence tests as measures of effort	p. 103
Use of standard memory tests to detect suspect effort	p. 128
Validity indicators within executive function measures : use and limits in detection of malingering	p. 152
Use of motor and sensory tests as measures of effort	p. 178
The MMPI-2 fake bad scale in detection of noncredible brain injury claims	p. 210
Malingering mild traumatic brain injury : behavioral approaches used by both malingering actors and probable malingerers	p. 239
Including measures of effort in neuropsychological assessment of pain- and fatigue-related medical disorders : clinical and research implications	p. 259
The impact of psychiatric disorders on cognitive symptom validity test scores	p. 281
Identification of feigned mental retardation	p. 310
Symptom validity tests in the epilepsy clinic	p. 346
The use of effort tests in the context of actual versus feigned attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and learning disability	p. 366
Cognitive complaints in multiple chemical sensitivity and toxic mold syndrome	p. 384
The use of effort tests in ethnic minorities and in non-English-speaking and English as a second language populations	p. 405
Assessment of malingering in criminal forensic neuropsychological settings	p. 428
Future directions in effort assessment	p. 453
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Assessment of Feigned Cognitive Impairment A Neuropsychological Perspective

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