Title: Performance Validity Testing, Suboptimal Effort, and Malingering Presenter: Nancy Minniti, Psy.D., ABPP-CN Affiliation: Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine
Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will be able to describe why PVTs are an important part of a clinical assessment, and be able to list settings where higher base rates of PVT failures are found. 2. Participants will be able to describe measures that can be used in the clinic to detect a noncredible performance, including embedded and free-standing measures of performance validity. 3. Participants will be able to discuss the difference between malingering and a noncredible performance.