Validity testing in child and adolescent assessment: evaluating exaggeration, feigning, and noncredible effort

by Kirkwood, Michael W.

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Full title :Validity testing in child and adolescent assessment : evaluating exaggeration, feigning, and noncredible effort / edited by Michael W. Kirkwood.

Summary

"Thoroughly covering the "why" and "how" of validity testing with children and adolescents, this book is edited and written by leaders in the field. Feigning or noncredible effort during psychological and neuropsychological assessments can have considerable repercussions for diagnosis, treatment, and use of resources. Practical guidance is provided for detecting and managing noncredible responding, including vivid case material. The reasons that children may feign during testing are also explored. Along with information relevant to all assessment settings, the book features specific chapters on educational, medical, sport-related, forensic, and Social Security Disability contexts"--

"Thoroughly covering the "why" and "how" of validity testing with children and adolescents, this book is edited and written by leaders in the field. Feigning or noncredible effort during psychological and neuropsychological assessments can have considerable repercussions for diagnosis, treatment, and use of resources. Practical guidance is provided for detecting and managing noncredible responding, including vivid case material. The reasons that children may feign during testing are also explored. Along with information relevant to all assessment settings, the book features specific chapters on educational, medical, sport-related, forensic, and Social Security disability contexts"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):The Guilford Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015.

The Physical Object

Description:xviii, 302 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781462521852, 1462521851
oclc:ocn915774280
LC Classification:RJ486.6
Dewey Decimal:618.92/80475

Pt. I INTRODUCTION -- 1.A Rationale for Performance Validity Testing in Child and Adolescent Assessment / Michael W. Kirkwood -- 2.Terminology and Diagnostic Concepts / Elisabeth M. S. Sherman -- 3.Understanding Deception from a Developmental Perspective / Robin L. Peterson -- 4.Performance and Symptom Validity: A Perspective from the Adult Literature / Glenn J. Larrabee -- pt. II DETECTION METHODS AND OTHER VALIDITY TEST USAGE MATTERS -- 5.Review of Pediatric Performance and Symptom Validity Tests / Michael W. Kirkwood -- 6.Clinical Strategies to Assess the Credibility of Presentations in Children / Dominic A. Carone -- 7.Motivations Behind Noncredible Presentations: Why Children Feign and How to Make This Determination / Michael W. Kirkwood -- 8.Managing Noncredible Performance in Pediatric Clinical Assessment / Yana Suchy -- 9.Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Validity Testing / Marsha Vasserman -- pt. III VALIDITY TESTING ACROSS EVALUATIVE SETTINGS -- 10.Child and Adolescent Psychoeducational Evaluations / Allyson G. Harrison -- 11.Pediatric Clinical Neuropsychological Evaluations with Medical Populations / Brian L. Brooks -- 12.Pediatric Sports-Related Concussion Evaluation…

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Adolescent Child Children children (people by age group) Deception EDUCATION -- Educational Psychology Enfants Enfants -- Tests psychologiques MEDICAL -- Neurology MEDICAL -- Psychiatry Neuropsychological Tests Neuropsychological tests for children Psychodiagnostics Psychological tests for children PSYCHOLOGY -- Assessment, Testing & Mea… PSYCHOLOGY -- Neuropsychology Reproducibility of Results Tests neuropsychologiques Tests neuropsychologiques pour enfants Tromperie