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The MMPI-2-RF Personality Inventory in Psychological Injury Cases

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

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The MMPI-2-RF (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Second Edition, Restructured Form; Ben-Porath and Tellegen 2008/2011) is being used increasingly in the psychological injury context. It is a revised version of the MMPI-2 (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Second Edition; Butcher et al. 1989, 2001) that had an expanded family of F and related scales aimed at detecting negative response bias and malingering. In this chapter, I describe the test, describe in depth the research supportive of its use in psychological injury context, and indicate how it meets Daubert factors for admissibility court (Ben-Porath 2012a). Nevertheless, cautions in its use are provided.

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Young, G. (2014). The MMPI-2-RF Personality Inventory in Psychological Injury Cases. 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_4

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