Neuropsychology of Malingering and Non-Credible Presentations

Joel E. Morgan is double board certified in clinical neuropsychology and pediatric neuropsychology. He is in independent practice of lifetime clinical and forensic neuropsychology in New Jersey, USA.Jerry J. Sweet is board certified in clinical neuropsychology and clinical psychology. He has taught and supervised young neuropsychologists in Evanston, Illinois, most of whom were about to enter the field.Kyle B. Boone is board certified in clinical neuropsychology and is in independent practice in forensic neuropsychology in Torrance, California, USA.Ryan W. Schroeder is a board‑certified clinical neuropsychologist. He evaluates clinical patients at the Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center and also performs forensic evaluations in his private practice in Wichita, Kansas, USA.

• ForewordSection 1 Foundations of Validity Assessment in Neuropsychology1- Deception, Response Bias, Malingering, Effort, and Invalidity: The Conceptual Evolution of Neuropsychological Validity Testing – Ryan W. Schroeder & Phillip K. Martin2- What Clinicians Really Need to Know about Symptom and Performance Validity: Statistical and Measurement Matters – Jeremy J. Davis & Scott R. Millis3- Case History and Psychometric Characteristics of False Positive Cases – Glenn J. Larrabee4- Including Symptom Validity Assessment in Forensic Evaluations - Megan R. Whitman & Yossef S. Ben-Porath5- Validity Testing within the Context of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Examinees – Farzin Irani & Karim Z. Yamout6- The Critical Importance of Assessing Validity in Forensic Neuropsychological Evaluations – Tannahill GlenSection 2 Civil Litigation7- Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in a Preschool Child: Untying the Gordian Knot - Robert J. McCaffrey & Julie K. Lynch8- A Case of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in a Child: Malingering of Neurocognitive Dysfunction or Malingering by Proxy- Elizabeth M. S. Sherman & Brian L. Brooks9- Sport-Related Concussion and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Elite Athletes -William B. Barr10- Performance Validity Testing in Multiple Symptom and Ability Domains and Testing the Clinical Significance of Below Chance Results with p