Military psychiatry : new developments /

Military psychiatry : new developments / Dennis G. Stanton and Lawrence R. Castaneda, editors. - 1 online resource. - Psychiatry : theory, applications & treatments series . - Psychiatry- theory, applications, and treatments series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

MILITARY PSYCHIATRY: NEW DEVELOPMENTS ; MILITARY PSYCHIATRY: NEW DEVELOPMENTS ; CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF MALINGERING VERSUS POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER: SCIENTIFIC RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVE PSYCHOMETRIC METHODS; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; Definition ; Responsibilities and Diagnostic Challenge of Military Psychiatrists ; Brief Historical Framework ; Incidence of Malingering ; Impact of Malingering ; Physician's Attitudes on Malingering and a Rational Perspective ; PROBLEMATIC ISSUES IN ASSESSING MALINGERED PTSD. Limitations in Detecting Malingering by Clinical InterviewAlone Lack of Adherence to, and Verification of, Criterion A and Criterion F ; Reliance on the Accuracy of Patients' Memories of Traumatic Events ; False Beliefs Regarding Military Protocols and Procedures for Documenting Combat Operations ; False Beliefs Regarding How Military Personnel Are Assigned Job Classification and Special Operations ; False Belief That Military Records of Vietnam Veterans Were Destroyed in a Fire ; Reliance on Published Research That Is Biased, Problematic, or Incomplete. Overconfidence in Physiological or Medical Neuroimaging Test Results Use of Face-Valid Self Report Measures of PTSD ; Failure to Acknowledge or Identify Invalid Test Performance; Realistic Professional and Intrinsic Needs of Physician ; Altruism ; Restricted Clinical Experience and Confirmatory Biases ; Noncritical Acceptance of Previous Diagnosis ; Failure to Consider Alternative Diagnoses That May Result from Trauma; Differential Diagnoses: Separating Malingering from Factitious and Somatoform Disorders; Misunderstanding of How Malingering Is Inferred. Binary Classification of Non-exclusionary Data RATIONALE AND STATISTICAL METHODS TO DETECE SIMULATED PTSD; Differences between Analog and Known-Groups Design in Detecting Deception ; Statistical Methods to Augment the Use of Psychometric Tests ; Summary of Statistical Methods to Detect Malingering; PSYCHOMETRIC TESTS TO DIFFERENTIATE VALID AND INVALID RESPONSE PATTERNS FOR PTSD; Structured Clinical Interviews ; Validity Scales within Tests of Psychopathology ; Two-Alternative Forced-Choice Paradigm to Detect Simulated PTSD. General Cautions in the Use of Symptom Validity Measures of Malingered Psychopathology Summary of Psychometric Procedures to Detect Simulated PTSD ; SUMMARY AND CONCLUDING COMMENT ; REFERENCES; OPERATIONAL STRESS INJURY SOCIAL SUPPORT: MAKING SENSE OUT OF NONSENSE ; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; Making Sense out of Nonsense ; Not Everything is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) ; A Double Edged Sword ; It's Still an Issue of Vulnerability ; It Was Very Cathartic ; The Biggest Thing Is Membership ; Knowing That You're Not Different: It Has Helped Me ; These Guys Are the Same as Me.


English.

9781611227710 (ebook) 1611227712 (hardcover)

2020679855


Military psychiatry.
Psychiatrie militaire.
PSYCHOLOGY--Psychopathology--Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Military psychiatry.


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