Assessment of Feigned Cognitive Impairment: A Neuropsychological Perspective

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.

• Assessment of Malingered Neuropsychological Deficits
• Clinical Assessment of Malingering and Deception, Fourth Edition
• Clinical Practice of Forensic Neuropsychology: An Evidence-Based Approach (Evidence-Based Practice in Neuropsychology)
• Neuropsychological Evaluation of Somatoform and Other Functional Somatic Conditions (American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology/Routledge Continuing Education Series)
• Neuropsychological Assessment
• Clinical Neuropsychology: A Pocket Handbook for Assessment
• A Practical Guide to Geriatric Neuropsychology (AACN Workshop Series)
• Neuropsychological Report Writing (Evidence-Based Practice in Neuropsychology)
• The Neuropsychology Fact-Finding Casebook: A Training Resource
• Forensic Neuropsychology: A Scientific Approach