Neuropsychology of Malingering and Non-Credible Presentations Perspectives on Validity Assessment

Foreword

Foundations of Validity Assessment in Neuropsychology

1- Deception, Response Bias, Malingering, Effort, and Invalidity: The Conceptual Evolution of Neuropsychological Validity Testing – Ryan Schroeder & Phillip Martin

2- What Clinicians Really Need to Know about Symptom and Performance Validity: Statistical and Measurement Matters – Jeremy Davis & Scott Millis

3- Case History and Psychometric Characteristics of False Positive Cases – Glenn Larrabee

4- Including Symptom Validity Assessment in Forensic Evaluations - Megan R. Whitman & Yossef S. Ben-Porath

5- Validity Testing within the Context of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Examinees – Farzin Irani & Karim Yamout

6- The Critical Importance of Assessing Validity in Forensic Neuropsychological Evaluations – Tannahill Glen

Civil Litigation

7- Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in a Preschool Child: Untying the Gordian Knot - Robert J. McCaffrey & Julie K. Lynch

8- A Case of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in a Child: Malingering of Neurocognitive Dysfunction or Malingering by Proxy- Elizabeth Sherman & Brian Brooks

9- Sport-Related Concussion and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Elite Athletes -

Bill Barr

10- Performance Validity Testing in Multiple Symptom and Ability Domains and Testing the Clinical Significance of Below Chance Results with p < .20.

11- Neurobehavioral Impairment Versus Malingering Following Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury - Stephen N. Macciocchi

12- Malingering by Proxy” in an Elderly Litigant – Tara Victor & Kyle Boone

13- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Malingering in Civil Litigation – Nancy Hebben

14- Noncredible cognitive and psychological presentations in forensic neuropsychological evaluations: Divergence of performance validity and symptom validity findings – Nat Nelson & Jerry Sweet

15- Is it now time to dispense with the concept of nonconscious conversion/functional neurological disorder? Kyle Boone

16- Diagnostic Determination, Fungal Fabrication and Mushrooming Litigation:

Neuropsychological Differential Diagnosis in Toxic Mold Claims – David Hartman

Criminal Litigation

17- Prescriptions for Profit: The Hippocratic Oath on Trial - Bob Denney

18- Defendants who Malinger Incompetence – Diana Goldstein

19- Feigning of Cognitive and Psychotic Disorders in a Criminal Forensic Context:

Competency to Stand Trial - Case of Mr. S – Bernice Marcopulos

20- Criminal Forensic Evaluation of An Intellectually Disabled Individual: The Importance of Addressing Diversity Issues – Joette James

21- Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Criminal Litigation – Christopher J. Graver & Maria Nikolova

Administrative Law, Disability, and Other Forensic Evaluations

22- An Integrated Approach to Validity Assessment - Kristin Fiano

23- Performance and Symptom Validity Assessment in Clinical and Forensic Patients with Depression- Thomas Merten and Brechje Dandachi-FitzGerald

24- The Feigned Trifecta: Malingered Psychopathology, Cognitive Disorder, and Somatic Disorders- Anthony De Marco & Joel E. Morgan

25- The Workers’ Compensation System in the United States: The Case of Mr. S.- Howard Oakes

26- Detecting Malingered Pain-Related Disability in the Context of a Presurgical Psychological Evaluation - James L. McAbee, Kevin J. Bianchini, Kevin W. Greve, & Matthew J. Holcomb

27- Invalidity in two civil competency examinations – George Demakis

28- Post-treatment Lyme Disease: Iatrogenic Somatic Symptom Disorder in combination with Secondary Gain Influences – Richard Kaplan

29- Claimed Disability due to Fibromyalgia, PTSD, Depression, Anxiety, and Cognitive Impairment Following Minor Motor Vehicle Collision - Roger O. Gervais, Dana Doucette, & Melanie Middelkoop

30- External incentive and performance validity in claimed Long COVID – Douglas Whiteside, Michael R. Basso, & Laura Fry

31-Evaluations of Active Duty Service Members in the Context of External Incentives - Patrick Armistead-Jehle

32- Feigned/Invalid Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Educational Settings – Jason Soble, Gabriel P. Ovsiew & Zachary J. Resch

33 -Feigned Learning Disability – Julie Suhr

Clinical Evaluations

34- Hidden External Incentives in Clinical Evaluations: A Case Example – Ryan Schroeder & Phillip Martin

35- Navigating Unforeseen Waters: When a Case Initially Involving Clinical Care Later Returns in a Forensic Context – Kristin Klipfel & Jerry Sweet

36- Even Young Children with Epilepsy Pass Freestanding PVTs – Bill MacAllister

37- Credibility concerns in psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) –

Kristy Bortnick & Lorna Myers

38- Evaluating Veterans: External Incentives in Clinical Settings – Robert Shura

39- A dementia evaluation that uncovered feigning by a patient ultimately diagnosed with factitious disorder superimposed on borderline personality disorder – Phillip Martin & Ryan Schroeder

Ethics and Professional Issues

40- Ethical and Professional Issues in Assessing Malingering in a Neuropsychological Examinee – Jim Seward & Tom Guilmette

41- After the Detection of Invalid Performance: Process and Feedback – Shane Bush

42- Breaking Bad in Neuropsychology – Mike Chafetz, Diana Campos & Paige Haley

43- Admissibility of Expert Opinions based on Neuropsychological Evidence of Malingering – Paul Kaufmann & Kevin Greve

Biography

Joel E. Morgan is double board certified in clinical neuropsychology and pediatric neuropsychology. He is in independent practice of lifetime clinical and forensic neuropsychology in New Jersey, USA.

Jerry J. Sweet was board certified in clinical neuropsychology and clinical psychology. He taught and supervised young neuropsychologists in Evanston, Illinois, most of who were about to enter the field.

Kyle B. Boone is boarded in clinical neuropsychology, and is in independent practice in forensic neuropsychology in Torrance, California, USA. 

Ryan W. Schroeder, PsyD, ABPP-CN is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist. He evaluates clinical patients at the Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center, and he also performs forensic evaluations in his private practice in Wichita, Kansas, USA.