Dr. Shura provides an overview of validity assessment in the Veterans Administration system, and in more general practice. He reviews DSM definition of malingering, the Slick (1999) criteria, and the Sherman (2020) criteria for assessing feigning. Dr. Shura then reviews specific psychometric approaches to assessing response style, including symptom validity and performance validity tests. He discusses base rates and nomenclature associates with response style assessment, as well as the adaptive model of malingering.
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