Assessment of Malingering
20 hours | 20 CEs
This on-demand professional training program on Assessment of Malingering is presented by Barry Rosenfeld, Ph.D., ABPP. This badge-earning program can be shared digitally on platforms like LinkedIn or your resume and counts towards a certificate. Enroll in this program to earn credit towards Criminal Forensic Assessment Certificate and share your new digital credentials with prospective employers and colleagues.
This program reviews the tests and techniques currently available for assessing malingering of cognitive impairment and psychiatric disturbance. The tests reviewed in this program are the measures such as the Test of Memory Malingering (TOMM), Validity Indicator Profile (VIP), MMPI (all versions), Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms (SIRS), and the Miller Forensic Assessment of Symptoms Test (M-FAST).
This program describes the use and interpretation of the individual test. It addresses the integration of multiple instruments into an assessment battery and decision-making in equivocal cases or when test data appear contradictory. Finally, the use and misuse of malingering tests with linguistic and culturally diverse evaluatees are described.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
- Describe the psychometric principles underlying classification accuracy, including sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, and base rates, as applied to the assessment of feigning and malingering
- Describe the types of instruments used to detect feigning
- Describe the strengths and limitations of commonly used instruments used to detect feigning
- Describe the different indices of classification accuracy
- Describe the tests and techniques available to assess malingering
- Describe the importance of base rate information
- Describe standard errors on the interpretation of psychological test results
- Describe alternative decision-making strategies for selecting and integrating multiple tests into an assessment battery
- Describe the impact of different types of diversity on the interpretation of test data
- Describe the culture, language, and intelligence on the interpretation of test data
- Describe the psychometric principles underlying classification accuracy, including sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, and base rates, as applied to the assessment of feigning and malingering
- Describe strategies for integrating test data, clinical observations, collateral information, and contextual factors when forming conclusions about feigning and malingering in forensic evaluations
Intended Audience
This on-demand professional training program is intended for mental health and other allied professionals
Experience Level
This on-demand professional training program is appropriate for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level clinicians.
CE / CPD Credit
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Presented By
Barry Rosenfeld, PhD, ABPP
Barry Rosenfeld is a Professor of Psychology and Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University. He is currently the President of the American Psychology-Law Society and past president of the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services. Dr. Rosenfeld has published more than 200 peer...
Curriculum
1. Introduction
2. Overview of Techniques
3. Primer in Classification
4. Test Selection and Interpretation
5. Cognitive Effort Testing - Part 1
6. Cognitive Effort Testing - Part 2
7. Cognitive Effort Testing - Part 3
8. Evaluating Symptom Validity - Part 1
9. Evaluating Symptom Validity - Part 2
10. Evaluating Symptom Validity - Part 3
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Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT), SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0356 and the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0073. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6811. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CONCEPT Professional Training, #1480, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CONCEPT Professional Training maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 11/22/23-11/22/26. Social workers completing this course receive (clinical or social work ethics) continuing education credits.