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Malingering - APCJ
Malingering . Mary Alice Conroy Phylissa P. Kwartner Sam Houston State University Malingering is almost always a rule-out in any forensic evaluation. The adversarial process and the high stakes involved in criminal proceedings may affect the likelihood that an individual will distort his or her symptom presentation. In cases where a forensic evaluation is sought, the defendant may be feigning illness to gain admission to a psychiatric hospital, to reduce culpability with an insanity defense, or to seek a more lenient sentence. Self-report information is an important aspect of any psychological evaluation. mental health professionals often proceed on the assumption that clients will provide an honest and complete description of their symptoms.
CONROY & KWARTNER 31 malingering and mental disorders may co-exist and some malingerers are simply embellishing symptoms of genuine psychopathology (Rogers & Bender, 2003).
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