Clinical Assessment of Malingering and Deception, Second Edition

Richard Rogers, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., is nationally recognized for his work in clinical and forensic psychology. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Contributions to Forensic Psychology Award from the American Academy of Forensic Psychology and the Amicus Award from the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law.

Introduction, Rogers. Part 1 Diagnostic issues: psychiatric and medical syndromes associated with deception, Cunnien; malingered psychosis, Resnick; sociopathy, malingering and defensiveness, Clark; simulated amnesia and the pseudo-memory phenomena, Cercy et al; denial and misreporting of substance abuse, Rogers and Kelly; malingering of posttraumatic disorders, Resnick; children and deception, Oldershaw and Bagby. Part 2 Psychometric assessment: assessment of malingering and defensiveness by multiscale personality inventories, Greene; dissimulation on the Rorschach and other projective measures, Schretlen; malingering on intellectual and neuropsychological measures, Pankratz and Binder. Part 3 Specialized methods: drug-assisted interviews to detect malingering and deception, Rogers and Wettstein; polygraph and integrity testing, Iacono and Patrick; hypnosis and dissimulation, Miller and Stava; structured interviews and dissimulation, Rogers; understanding and detecting dissimulation in sex offenders, Sewell and Salekin; assessment of malingering with self-report instruments, Smith. Part 4 Summary: current status of clinical methods, Rogers; researching dissimulation, Rogers.