Advancing Detection Strategies for Feigned Mental Disorders Across the Decades.

Abstract

A seminal BSL article in 1984 provided a conceptual framework for systematically applying detection strategies to feigned mental disorders. Over the decades, gradual advances have emerged for delineating and operationalizing these strategies. The first major section follows the developments in feigning strategies for the MMPI family and the SIRS/SIRS-2 as leading measures for multiscale inventories and structured interviews, respectively. The second major section critically reviews two unlikely detection strategies (i.e., rare symptoms and symptom combinations) and two amplified detection strategies (i.e., symptom severity and symptom selectivity). The article concludes with recommendations for future research on potential strategies.