
Discrediting Psychological and Neuropsychological Defenses - On Demand
*Plaintiff-only product Defense psychologists, neuropsychologists, and psychiatrists are often used to defend a variety of personal injury cases. They are also commonly used in family law (divorce and child custody) and criminal cases. Additionally, neuropsychological testing is used by the defense in traumatic brain injury cases in an attempt to undermine the plaintiff’s credibility, as well as question the plaintiff’s effort on the tests (and the validity of abnormal test scores). To combat these tactics you must understand the basics of psychological and neuropsychological testing. This online program will include the following topics: The MMPI and its present variants used in litigation, the MMPI-2 and MMPI-2-RF, and the importance of their differences Injuries that will create abnormal MMPI scale scores Conditions under which the MMPI is invalid The importance of “Comparison Group Data” in the MMPI-2-RF A brief overview of the Fake Bad Scale/Symptom Validity Scale and how to d