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Access to malingering assessments

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• Feb 22, 2022

Does anyone know how I am able to get online access to malingering assessments, especially the inventory of legal knowledge or The M-FAST? Thank you

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Descriptions of Tests by Four Areas of Core Mental Residual Functional Capacity. Remember location and work-like procedures Understand and remember very short and simple instructions

This chapter has identified some of the basic foundations underlying the use of psychological tests including basic psychometric principles and issues regarding test fairness. Applications of tests can inform disability determinations. The next two chapters build on this overview, examining the types of psychological tests that may be useful in this process, including a review of selected individual tests that have been developed for measuring validity of presentation. Chapter 4 focuses on non-cognitive, self-report measures and symptom validity tests. Chapter 5 then focuses on cognitive tests and associated performance validity tests. Strengths and limitations of various instruments are offered, in order to subsequently explore the relevance for different types of tests for different claims, per category of disorder, with a focus on establishing the validity of the client's claim.

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This may be in comparison to a nationally representative norming sample, or with certain tests or measures, such as the MMPI, particular clinically diagnostic samples.

The brief overview presented here draws on the works of De Ayala (2009) and DeMars (2010), to which the reader is directed for additional information.