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Apr 20, 2024
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PSY-765F Malingering and Deception2 semester credits
This class will provide students with a general framework for evaluating malingering of both cognitive and functional psychological symptoms. A comprehensive model for assessing malingering and exaggeration, utilizing psychological tests, interview data, historical records, collateral interviews and longitudinal observation will be described and applied to case examples. The use of forced choice and graded difficulty techniques for assessing malingering of cognitive deficits and self-report and interview instruments for assessing functional psychopathology will be reviewed and their use demonstrated. Relevant readings will be assigned and students will be expected to submit written work that reviews and critiques one instrument used in the assessment of malingering and addresses one significant controversy in the assessment of malingering–and to comment briefly on their classmates’ submissions.
Co-requisites: Prior completion of or concurrent registration in PSY-765
Delivery Method: In person/Blended
Grading Default: Letter
Note: Elective
Learning Outcome(s):
- To achieve a conceptual and clinical understanding of malingering and to be able to differentiate malingering from other syndromes, such as Factitious Disorder and Ganser Syndrome that are often confused with it.
- To incorporate into ones forensic psychological thinking and practice a comprehensive model for assessing malingering that involves clinical interviewing, psychological testing, longitudinal observation, collateral interviews, and record review, and to understand how to utilize this data in arriving at a reliable forensic psychological opinion.
- To understand the various pitfalls that can arise in the assessment of malingering, including problems in the assessment of truthfulness, and the establishment the basde rates relevant to assessment of malingering.
- To understand that uses in limits of standard psychological tests in the assessment of malingering
- To achieve basic familiarity with specialized instruments that are utilized in the assessment of malingering an exaggeration of cognitive deficit’s and functional psychopathology.
- To achieve an understanding of the dangers of misclassification and the ethical issues that can arise when one labels and individual a malingerer.
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