Assessment of genuine and simulated dissociative identity disorder on the structured interview of reported symptoms

Journal of Trauma and Dissociation

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 63-85

  Brand, Bethany L ^a   McNary, Scot W ^b   Loewenstein, Richard J ^c   Kolos, Amie C ^a   Barr, Stefanie R ^a  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Diagnosis; Dissociation; Factitious; Malingering; Simulation; SIRS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FACTITIOUS DISEASE; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MALINGERING; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT; SIMULATION; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MALINGERING; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 33746529235     PISSN: 15299732     EISSN: 15299740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J229v07n01_06     Document Type: Article

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