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Comprehensive and user friendly, this book synthesizes the growing literature on symptom feigning in cognitive testing and translates it into evidence-based recommendations for clinical and forensic practice. A wide range of cognitive effort assessment techniques and strategies are critically reviewed, including both dedicated measures and the use of embedded indicators in standard clinical tests. The book describes approaches to distinguishing between credible and noncredible performance in specific clinical populations: persons presenting with head injury, chronic pain and fatigue, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and learning disability, mental retardation, seizures, and exposure to environmental toxins. Special topics include the potentially confounding effects of psychiatric disorder and ethnocultural factors on effort testing, and cognitive assessment in the criminal forensic setting.
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Boone (psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, U. of California, Los Angeles, and Harbor-UCLA Medical Center) compiles 20 chapters on symptom feigning in neuropsychological testing. They mostly describe assessment techniques and strategies (such as forced-choice and non-forced-choice measures, standard memory tests, and motor and sensory tests) and cognitive effort testing in different clinical populations, with a chapter on functional neuroimaging. Chapters on testing in groups with low intelligence and psychiatric illness, and different cultural backgrounds are included, as well as testing relating to mild head injury, chronic pain or fatigue, multiple chemical sensitivity and exposure to mold, non-epileptic seizures, adult learning disability and ADHD, and in correctional settings. Contributors work in psychiatry, psychology, and neurology mostly in the US. The volume is aimed at psychologists and graduate-level students. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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