Symptom validity is highly relevant to neuropsychologists, forensic experts, psychiatrists, and clinical psychologists. Ongoing debates about whether or not PTSD rates are inflated, whether or not ADHD is an overdiagnosed condition, whether or not genuine amnesia in criminal offenders does exist, and how the demarcation line between feigned and truly functional symptoms can be established illustrate how significant the issue of symptom validity is.
This conference will focus not only on tools to evaluate symptom validity in patients, but also on basic issues related to diagnosis, therapy, epidemiology, and forensic implications.
Keynote speakers: Richard McNally, Michael Kopelman, Richard Rogers, and Richard Kanaan.
Poster submission is open till the end of April, 2015.
http://www.tmfi.nl/en/activities/sva/
Everyone who does clinical work, and particularly assessments, should be concerned with symptom validity and performance validity. I have seen cases of symptom exaggeration and fabrication in clinical patients who do not have traditional secondary gain (e.g., financial) motivations. This is why I talk about psychosocial secondary gain in my work.
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