Detecting Malingering and Deception: Forensic Distortion Analysis, Second Edition (Pacific Institute Series on Forensic Psychology) - Hardcover

Hall, Harold V.; Pritchard, David A.; Poirier, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1574440233 ISBN 13: 9781574440232

Publisher: CRC Press, 1995

Synopsis

This book is the culmination of more than 20 years of study, research, and the direct evaluation of thousands of forensic clients. The authors provide the reader with the highest caliber of professionalism and make clear that the current state of the art in deception analysis is crude to say the least. They challenge readers to closely examine their own decision processes in regard to deception. And they admit that they have no sympathy for the common complaint that proper deception analysis requires much time and effort, which can be a burden to the busy professional. They make clear that the days of administering an MMPI and a Rorschach to a client and thereby knowing everything there is to know about that person are gone forever.

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"The text is quite readable and free of jargon... Hall and Poirier unfold their approach without rancor toward other clinicians or toward clients, and they do much to rectify the stuffy, overlitigious image of forensic psychology in their humane and sensible stance. They do a marked service by reassuring therapists relationship; in the process of seeking the truth, forensic specialists do not have to abandon decency. I recommend this carefully written and thorough text to all therapists who may themselves be drawn, or see clients who may be drawn, into the forensic arena." -T. Richard Saunders, Ph.D. in Psychotherapy "It can be indeed a daunting task to compile a text appropriately bridging [psychology/psychiatry and the judicial system], two seemingly disparate worlds; yet Hall and Poirier accomplished just that with their updated volume. The quality and scope of this work sustained their conviction that not only was this doable, but it was possible to do it exceedingly well. They have produced a reference work, copiously detailed with an abundance of practical 'how to' information that both the novice and the seasoned practitioner concerned with detecting malingering will find invaluable." -George G. Katz, J.D., Ph.D., in the Academy of Clinical Psychology Bulletin

Synopsis

Psychological consultants offer aid for attorneys dealing with cases that involve violent, nonviolent, or white-collar crime; faking; deception; distortion; and similar behavior. They summarize the current information on detecting distortion, and present guidelines that take into account the variable accuracy rates for the different methods of dece

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1574440233
• ISBN 13: 9781574440232
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384