Validity Testing in Child and Adolescent Assessment

Michael W. Kirkwood, PhD, ABPP-CN, is Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He is also Director of the Psychology/Neuropsychology Program in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Children’s Hospital Colorado, and founder and Codirector of the hospital’s Concussion Program. Dr. Kirkwood is board certified in Clinical Neuropsychology and board certified as a subspecialist in Pediatric Neuropsychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology, and has served on multiple boards of directors and expert committees. He has conducted extensive research on traumatic brain injury and pediatric validity testing in children and teens, has lectured widely, and has published more than 50 journal articles and 10 book chapters. He is coeditor of the book Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Children and Adolescents.

I. Introduction
1. A Rationale for Performance Validity Testing in Child and Adolescent Assessment, Michael W. Kirkwood
2. Terminology and Diagnostic Concepts, Elisabeth M. S. Sherman
3. Understanding Deception from a Developmental Perspective, Eric Peterson & Robin L. Peterson
4. Performance and Symptom Validity: A Perspective from the Adult Literature, Glenn J. Larrabee
II. Detection Methods and Other Validity Test Usage Matters
5. Review of Pediatric Performance and Symptom Validity Tests, Michael W. Kirkwood
6. Clinical Strategies to Assess the Credibility of Presentations in Children, Dominic A. Carone
7. Motivations Behind Noncredible Presentations: Why Children Feign and How to Make This Determination, David A. Baker & Michael W. Kirkwood
8. Managing Noncredible Performance in Pediatric Clinical Assessment, Amy K. Connery &Yana Suchy
9. Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Validity Testing, William S. MacAllister & Marsha Vasserman
III. Validity Testing across Evaluative Settings
10. Child and Adolescent Psychoeducational Evaluations, Allyson G. Harrison
11. Pediatric Clinical Neuropsychological Evaluations with Medical Populations, Brian L. Brooks
12. Pediatric Sports-Related Concussion Evaluations, Martin L. Rohling, Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling, & Melissa M. Womble
13. Pediatric Forensic Neuropsychological Evaluations, Jacobus Donders
14. Disability: Social Security Supplemental Security Income Exams for Children, Michael D. Chafetz