Assessment of Feigned Cognitive Impairment: A Neuropsychological Perspective

"Provide[s] useful psychometric strategies and clinical wisdom for uncovering and dealing with malingered neuropsychological performance....Special strengths...include how to retool standard neuropsychological tests to be utilized as malingering-detectors....Recommended for serious neuropsychological practitioners....The tools and techniques provided...will give neuropsychological practitioners a head start in maintaining the credibility of our evaluations and―just as important―assuring that patients receive proper clinical care."

"A timely publication. Although its intended audience is practicing psychologists and graduate students, Boone's book will help forensic psychiatrists become better informed consumers of neuropsychological effort testing. Boone and the contributing authors describe new research in three key areas: novel instruments for detecting deigned cognitive deficits; psychometric properties of existing instruments; and existing psychological tests used to describe performance patterns that are specific to malingering....The topic of neuropsychological effort testing can admittedly be a daunting one. Fortunately, this book presents it in a highly comprehensive manner. Boone and her collaborators have synthesized recent scientific advances in the area of effort testing into a text that will become an invaluable tool for all practitioners who rely on neuropsychological testing data."

"Editor Kyle Brauer Boone has assembled the 'best and the brightest' contributors to help current clinicians and researchers minimize the effects if sub-optimal effort or symptom exaggeration in their conduct of psychological and neuropsychological assessments....Forensic psychologists should find what they need to support testimony they provide and to refute testimony offered by someone who has not reviewed the material herein....This 'encyclopedia' is the type of reference that should be on the desk of every psychologist who conducts psychological assessments of any kind and is a must for all neuropsychologists who function in clinical and/or research settings. Each chapter provides the reader with the latest recommendations for assessing effort with clients requiring a determination of cognitive and/or emotional status. The psychologist interested in practical and precise assessment of clients in identified clinical groups will find answers in these chapters....The text is helpful to the researcher as well as the clinician because the data presented is current and relevant to both. Many topics are reviewed including attorney coaching, avoiding the death penalty, gaining entitlements, and how symptom validity tests may help in differential diagnosis."

"Some of the most prominent experts in the field contribute chapters that are comprehensive literature reviews on their respective topics....Clinicians and researchers in forensic psychology and neuropsychology will find this volume most valuable. It describes and advances technology for determining the validity of our assessments. The chapters inform the interested reader of applicable instruments, settings, and medical/psychological conditions....While the reader would certainly benefit from familiarity with the entire book, the collection can be viewed as a valuable and convenient reference guide for deciding which measures of malingering are appropriate in individual circumstances, specific disorders, particular demographics, and various levels of impairment....This book offers quantitative, actuarial decision formulas based on empirical evidence for assessing malingering....Will become a classic text that any forensic neuropsychologist must have on his or her shelf....We believe that this book has genuinely improved the scientific quality and diagnostic accuracy of our clinical assessments."

"It is not possible to imagine a competent, ethical practitioner of forensic neuropsychology who should not read this book or one who would not routinely use it in day-to-day practice. Kyle Boone has amassed an impressive array of some of the most well respected scholar-clinicians in forensic neuropsychology in a volume that, as nearly as possible, provides cogent summaries of the burgeoning research literature in motivational assessment....Compelling in style and breadth...must be considered essential reading for forensic neuropsychologists, beginners, and journeymen alike. With the research literature so handily summarized, and recommendations for practical use that follow logically, it is likely that this will become a desk-side companion for practitioners. While many issues remain to be understood regarding effort and feigned illness, it is comforting to know that the state of the science is so well represented in this volume."

"A timely and welcome addition to the field of symptom exaggeration and fabrication, an area that has been relatively neglected, traditionally fraught with methodological difficulties, and, until recently, limited by a lack of suitable evaluation measures....Boone takes on the task of bringing together historical, conceptual, and methodical aspects of cognitive effort assessment and the contributing authors provide useful guidance in the form of evidence-based practice recommendations....This comprehensive and up-to-date review provides a sound conceptual basis for the understanding of symptom invalidity and how it is best measured....One of its strengths lies in the practice recommendations made by the various contributors. Highly recommended."

"This is an outstanding clinical reference that would benefit every neuropsychologist and student of neuropsychology. If one's goal is to be an informed, savvy evaluator of feigned cognitive impairment, there is no better resource on the market. Weighted Numerical Score: 100 - 5 Stars!"