Author: Grant L. Hutchinson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781887841368
Category : Compensation (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An essential desk reference that answers the basic questions all clinicians must ask when faced with an apparently simulating patient: What is the next step once simulation is suspected? Should the valuation be standard or modified? What modifications should be made? Should the patient be confronted? How can the clinicians know when his or her suspicions are wrong? What constitutes legitimate proof of simulation? Is the patient consciously faking? This book goes a long way toward undoing the confusion engendered by DSM's inadequate definitions, minimal criteria, and vague standards for the three Disorders of Simulation: Malingering, Factitious Disorder, and Compensation Neurosis.