Detection of feigned psychosis with the Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology (SIMS): A study of coached and uncoached simulators

Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-22

  Jelicic, Marko ^a   Hessels, Annemarie ^a   Merckelbach, Harald ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coaching; Forensic assessment; Malingering; Psychosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MALINGERING; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SIMULATION; STUDENT; SYMPTOM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 21544443893     PISSN: 08822689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10862-006-4535-0     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Abrahamsen, D. (1985). Confessions of the Son of Sam. New York: Columbia University Press.
2. Beaber, R. J., Marston, A., Michelli, J., & Mills, M. J. (1985). A brief test for measuring malingering in schizophrenic individuals. American Journal of Psychiatry, 142, 1478-1481.
3. Dunn, T. M., Shear, P. K., Howe, S., & Ris, D. M. (2003). Detecting neuropsychological malingering: Effects of coaching and information. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 18, 121-134.
4. Edens, J. F., Otto, R. K., & Dwyer, T. (1999). Utility of the Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology in identifying persons motivated to malinger psychopathology. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 27, 387-396.
5. Fauteck, P. K. (1995). Detecting the malingering of psychosis in offenders: No easy solutions. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 22, 3-18.
6. Hilsabeck, R. C., LeCompte, D. C., Marks, A. R., & Grafman, J. (2001). The Word Completion Memory Test (WCMT): A new test to detect malingered memory deficits. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 16, 669-677.
7. Jaffe, M. E., & Sharma, K. K. (1998). Malingering uncommon psychiatric symptoms among defendants charged under California's "Three Strikes and You're Out" Law. Journal of Forensic Science, 43, 549-555.
8. Lewis, J. L., Simcox, A. M., & Berry, D. T. R. (2002). Screening for feigned psychiatric symptoms in a forensic sample by using the MMPI-2 and the Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology. Psychological Assessment, 14, 170-176.
9. Merckelbach, H., & Smith, G. P. (2003). Diagnostic accuracy of the Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology (SIMS) in detecting instructed malingering. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 18, 145-152.
10. Powell, M. R., Gfeller, J. D., Hendricks, B. L., & Sharland, M. (2004). Detecting symptom - and test - coached simulators with the Test of Memory Malingering. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 19, 693-702.
11. Resnick, P. J. (1999). The detection of malingered psychosis. The Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 22, 159-172.
12. Rogers, R., Harrell, E. H., & Liff, C. D. (1993). Feigning neuropsychological impairment: A critical review of methodological and clinical considerations. Clinical Psychology Review, 13, 255-274.
13. Rogers, R., Hinds, J. D., & Sewell, K. W. (1996). Feigning psychopathology among adolescent offenders: Validation of the SIRS, MMPI-A, and SIMS. Journal of Personality Assessment, 67, 244-257.
14. Rogers, R., & Shuman, D. W. (2000). Conducting insanity evaluations, 2nd ed. New York: Guilford Press.
15. Rosenfeld, B., Sands, S. A., & Van Gorp, W. G. (2000). Have we forgotten the base rate problem? Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 15, 349-359.
16. Rosenhan, D. (1973). On being sane in insane places. Science, 172, 250-258.
17. Smith, G. P. (1997). Assessment of malingering with self-report instruments. In R. Rogers (Ed.), Clinical assessment of malingering and deception, 2nd ed. (pp. 351-370). New York: Guilford Press.
18. Smith, G. P., & Burger, G. K. (1997). Detection of malingering: Validation of the Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 25, 183-189.
19. Spitzer, R. L. (1975). On pseudoscience in science, logic in remission, and psychiatric diagnosis: A critique on Rosenhan's "On being sane in insane places." Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 84, 442-452.
20. Youngjohn, J. R. (1995). Confirmed attorney coaching prior to neuropsychological evaluation. Assessment, 2, 279-283.
21. Youngjohn, J. R., Lees-Haley, P. R., & Binder, L. M. (1999). Comment: Warning malingerers produces more sophisticated malingering. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 14, 511-515.