Assessment of Malingering in a Jail Referral Population : Screening and Comprehensive Evaluation
Description:
Psychological assessment of mentally disordered offenders requires a systematic consideration of response styles, including malingering and defensiveness. Important components of these evaluations are standardized diagnostic interviews. However, the ability of offenders to feign mental disorders on such measures to achieve such external incentives as treatment, placement on safer units, or possible release from jail remains uninvestigated. With a known-groups comparison with the data from the S…
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Date:
August 1997
Creator:
Ustad, Karen L. (Karen Lee)
Partner:
UNT Libraries