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Assessing Psychological Injuries and Malingering: PTSD and Evaluee Considerations

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Malingering, Feigning, and Response Bias in Psychiatric/ Psychological Injury

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This chapter and the next one conclude the series of chapters on assessment in forensic disability and related determinations. It begins with a section on a primary topic in this monograph – malingered PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorder). Then, it examines evaluee factors as opposed to evaluator factors that might influence the assessment process. The next chapter deals with disability and report writing and, for the latter purpose, attempts an integration of evaluee factors in assessment. I developed my own tables for the task based on the many tables culled from literature that have been presented over the chapters on the topic.

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Young, G. (2014). Assessing Psychological Injuries and Malingering: PTSD and Evaluee Considerations. In: Malingering, Feigning, and Response Bias in Psychiatric/ Psychological Injury. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 56. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7899-3_13

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