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malingerer

in military law, a person who pretends to be ill or who deliberately injures himself, as by shooting himself in the foot, to render himself unfit for service or to delay return to service.
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The coin-in-the-hand (CIH) test was developed by Professor Narinder Kapur to detect malingering in cognitive assessment.[34] Several studies have confirmed that the CIH could detect faking memory impairments[35],[36],[37] or even dementia,[38] and there are no reliable tools in Chinese for detecting such faking memory impairments.
When feigned disability is suspected, examiners can also administer standardized tests that are specifically designed to detect malingering. (44) For example, one such test is the Validity Indicator Profile ("VIP").
that he "saw no evidence of malingering" in cases a previous
Estimating the predictive value of the Test of Memory Malingering: an illustrative example for clinicians.
To summarize, I have cited five kinds of traumatic memory: iconic memory, memory of the future, Nachtmglichkeit, factious memory, and malingering. In each instance, memories are represented as if they were object-like things, stored in a librarylike mental location, waiting to be retrieved.
The DSM-IV-TR includes four criteria that are described as highly suggestive of malingering. These criteria are: (a) discrepancy between the reported impairment and objective findings, (b) insufficient cooperation during the interview and evaluation and/or non-compliance with treatment, (c) a medico-legal context of presentation and (d) the presence of antisocial personality disorder These criteria are included in the widely used DSM-IV diagnostic system, but still available data shows that these criteria are inadequate for diagnosis malingering and in the absence of a comprehensive evaluation this may result in significant false-positive or false-negative diagnoses (5).
In a second study, detection of malingering in a group of adolescents did not surpass chance level, despite clinicians being confident in their case appraisals (Faust et al., 1988b).
He was discharged on October 11 after being assessed as having no serious mental illness and was given the diagnosis of "malingering".
Malingering is the gross exaggeration or fabrication of physical and psychological symptoms for secondary gain.
simply hooded its roosting eyes And watched from a distance, malingering
The system is being abused because third parties are signing in for their colleagues or the records or kept so poorly, that it is possible for a malingering worker to go every once in a while and signing off as having been at work when they were no such thing.
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