title: My favorite tips for detecting malingering and violence risk.
abstract: This article presents specific tips for detecting malingering and the risk of violence. Specific topics include detailed inquiry into symptoms, endorsement of bogus symptoms, and confrontation of a patient with a paranoid persecutor. It ends with strategic tips and an illustrative dialogue showing how these tips can be implemented in practice.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve, 11100 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA. phillip.resnick@cwru.edu
authors.forename: Phillip J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Resnick
mesh_terms: D003415:Crime; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological / Q000379:methods*; D008306:Malingering / Q000175:diagnosis*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology*