Assessing Negative Response Bias in Competency to Stand Trial Evaluations

Steven J. Rubenzer

Assessing Negative Response Bias in Competency to Stand Trial Evaluations

Steven J. Rubenzer
Steven J. RubenzerForensic Sobriety Assessment, LLCClose

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Assessing Negative Response Bias in Competency to Stand Trial Evaluations provides a comprehensive guide to assessing malingering, feigning, poor effort, and lack of cooperation in competency to stand trial (CST) examinations. It draws on both the author’s extensive experience as a CST examiner and the vast, dynamic professional literature from forensic psychology, clinical psychology, and neuropsychology on assessing response style. The assessment process is considered from beginning to report writing and testimony, with tips regarding interview strategies, fact patterns and behaviors suggestive of feigning, testing, and creative and ethical use of collateral data. Every major validity test used by CST examiners is thoroughly and critically reviewed, as are others that are promising and not yet widely adopted. This includes self-report inventories such as the MMPI-2, MMPI-2-RF, PAI, and SIMS; structured interviews like the SIRS, SIRS-2, and M-FAST; performance validity tests like the TOMM, VIP, 15 item Test, and WMT; and CST-specific tests like the ILK and ECST-R Atypical Presentation Scales. A complete chapter is devoted to means to summarize and combine data from different tests and sources, and another to special populations such as defendants who claim amnesia, are intellectually disabled, or are adolescents. Report writing and testimony considerations are discussed in detail, with implications for the assessment and practice. In Chapter 10, CST examiners’ practices, including preferences for tests and collateral sources, are reported along with the perceived prevalence of various invalid presentation styles. Finally, policy implications of feigning and suggestions for cost-effective practice are provided.

Keywords: feigning, malingering, poor effort, competency to stand trial evaluations, response style

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Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: Mar 2018

Print ISBN-13:: 9780190653163

Published online:: Aug 2018

DOI:: 10.1093/med-psych/9780190653163.001.0001

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Steven J. Rubenzer, author Forensic Sobriety Assessment, LLC

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