This book is a comprehensive analysis of the definitions, concepts, and
recent research on malingering, feigning, and other response biases in
psychological injury/ forensic disability populations. It presents a new
model of malingering and related biases, and develops a "diagnostic"
system based on it that is applicable to PTSD, chronic pain, and TBI.
Included are suggestions for effective practice and future research
based on the literature reviews and the new systems, which are useful
also because they can be used readily by psychiatrists as much as
psychologists.
In Malingering, Feigning, and Response Style Assessment in
Psychiatric/Psychological Injury, Dr. Young ambitiously sets out to
articulate and synthesize the polarities involved in the assessment of
response styles in psychological disabilities, including PTSD, pain, and
TBI. He does so thoroughly and very even-handedly, neither minimizing
the degree that outright faking can be found in substantial numbers of
examinees, nor disregarding the possibility that there can be causes for
validity test failure other than malingering. He reviews the prior
systems for classifying evidence of malingering, and proposes his own
criteria for feigned PTSD. These are conservative and well-grounded in
the prior literature. Finally, the book contains dozens of very recent
references, giving testament to Dr. Young's immersion in the personal
injury literature, as might be expected from his experience as founder
and Editor in Chief for Psychological Injury and the Law.
Reviewer:
Steve Rubenzer, Ph.D., ABPP
Board Certified Forensic Psychologist