Clinical and conceptual problems in the attribution of malingering in forensic evaluations

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 98-106

  Drob, Sanford L ^a   Meehan, Kevin B ^b   Waxman, Shari E ^a  

^a FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISSOCIATION; FACTITIOUS DISEASE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; HYSTERIA; MALINGERING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY; NOTE; COGNITION; ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; FORENSIC MEDICINE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW;

FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; LIE DETECTION; MALINGERING; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VOLITION;

EID: 66149147085     PISSN: 10936793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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