Practical Training: Malingering and All That

Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience

Practical Training: Malingering and All That

Full course description

Several tools exist that allow for the detection of faking. In this workshop – consisting of two sessions - students will be trained to use these so-called symptom validity tests (SVTs) by applying them in a known scenario where someone will be instructed to fake or deny symptoms. In addition, students will becomee familiar with concepts that are relevant in the context of symptom validity testing (e.g., fantasy proneness).

The final assessment for this course is pass or fail - and not a numerical grade between 0,0 and 10,0.

Course objectives

Knowledge of:

Malingering, Symptom Validity Testing, Faking good, Faking bad, and Fantasy proneness.

At the end of this practical, students:

can apply these tests, score them, and summarize the results;
can present the results in the form of a patient vignette/grand round.

PSY4653

Period 4

3 Feb 2025

4 Apr 2025

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ECTS credits:

0.0

Instruction language:

English

Coordinator:

B. Dandachi - Fitzgerald

Teaching methods:

Skills, Presentation(s)

Assessment methods:

Attendance, Final paper

Keywords:

malingering, SVT, faking good, faking bad, fantasy proneness