Conceptualization and Assessment of Malingering

Handbook of Forensic Assessment: Psychological and Psychiatric Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 659-678

  Rogers, Richard ^a   Granacher, Robert P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisocial personality disorder; Construct drift; Malingering; Response styles; V code classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886552382     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118093399.ch29     Document Type: Chapter

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