Comprehensive and user friendly, this book synthesizes the growing literature on symptom feigning in cognitive testing and translates it into evidence-based recommendations for clinical and forensic practice. A wide range of cognitive effort assessment techniques and strategies are critically reviewed, including both dedicated measures and the use of embedded indicators in standard clinical tests. The book describes approaches to distinguishing between credible and noncredible performance in specific clinical populations: persons presenting with head injury, chronic pain and fatigue, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and learning disability, mental retardation, seizures, and exposure to environmental toxins. Special topics include the potentially confounding effects of psychiatric disorder and ethnocultural factors on effort testing, and cognitive assessment in the criminal forensic setting.

Table of Contents:
I. Symptom Fabrication: Social and Biological Perspectives 1. Feigning of Physical, Psychiatric, and Cognitive Symptoms: Examples from History, the Arts, and Animal Behavior, David C. Stone and Kyle Brauer Boone 2. Functional Neuroimaging of Deception and Malingering, Lisle R. Kingery and David J. Schretlen II. Cognitive Effort Assessment Techniques and Strategies 3. A Reconsideration of the Slick et al. (1999) Criteria for Malingered Neurocognitive Dysfunction, Kyle Brauer Boone 4. Spoiled for Choice: Making Comparisons between Forced-Choice Effort Tests, Paul Green 5. Non-Forced-Choice Measures to Detect Noncredible Cognitive Performance, Stephen R. Nitch and David M. Glassmire 6. Intelligence Tests as Measures of Effort, Talin Babikian and Kyle Brauer Boone 7. Use of Standard Memory Tests to Detect Suspect Effort, Po H. Lu, Steven A. Rogers, and Kyle Brauer Boone 8. Validity Indicators within Executive Function Measures: Use and Limits in Detection of Malingering, Jerry J. Sweet and Nathaniel W. Nelson 9. Use of Motor and Sensory Tests as Measures of Effort, Ginger Arnold and Kyle Brauer Boone 10. The MMPI-2 Fake Bad Scale in Detection of Noncredible Brain Injury Claims, Manfred F. Greiffenstein, David Fox, and Paul R. Lees-Haley III. Cognitive Effort Testing in Various Clinical Populations 11. Malingering Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Behavioral Approaches Used by Both Malingering Actors and Probable Malingerers, John E. Meyers 12. Including Measures of Effort in Neuropsychological Assessment of Pain- and Fatigue-Related Medical Disorders: Clinical and Research Implications, Julie Suhr and Brad Spickard 13. The Impact of Psychiatric Disorders on Cognitive Symptom Validity Test Scores, Hope E. Goldberg, Carla Back-Madruga, and Kyle Brauer Boone 14. Identification of Feigned Mental Retardation, Tara L. Victor and Kyle Brauer Boone 15. Symptom Validity Tests in the Epilepsy Clinic, David J. Williamson, Daniel L. Drane, and Elizabeth S. Stroup 16. The Use of Effort Tests in the Context of Actual versus Feigned Attention-Deficit /Hyperactivity Disorder and Learning Disability, Kimberly Alfano and Kyle Brauer Boone 17. Cognitive Complaints in Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and Toxic Mold Syndrome, Robert J. McCaffrey and Christine L. Yantz 18. The Use of Effort Tests in Ethnic Minorities and in Non-English-Speaking and English as a Second Language Populations, Xavier F. Salazar, Po H. Lu, Johnny Wen, and Kyle Brauer Boone 19. Assessment of Malingering in Criminal Forensic Neuropsychological Settings, Robert L. Denney 20. Future Directions in Effort Assessment, Martin L. Rohling and Kyle Brauer Boone