Estimating the efficacy of Fptsd Scale to report malingering of PTSD: A meta-analytic review

• Published in: Revista iberoamericana de psicología y salud 2021-01, Vol.12 (1), p.44-57
• Main Authors: Gancedo, Yurena, Sanmarco, Jéssica, Marcos, Verónica, Seijo, Dolores
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Comorbidity; Forensic sciences; Investigations; Post traumatic stress disorder; Psychologists; Quantitative psychology; Validity; Victimization; Victims of crime
• ISSN: 2171-2069; 1989-9246
• DOI: 10.23923/j.rips.2021.01.044

The scientific-forensic and clinical literature have determined different disorders as damage. [...]the disorder that has been identified with the fingerprint of the victimization of a crime is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD; Kessler et al., 1995, 2005), both direct and indirect victimization (Gallego et al., 2019; Marcos et al., 2020); o not being a forensic print of damage to other disorders (Brown et al., 2001), nor subsyndromes (O'Donnell et al., 2006). [...]the clinic diagnosis cannot guarantee either that the cause (Criterion A) is the one referred by the patient, or the reality of the event. [...]forensic evidence must comply with the principle of presumption of innocence (i.e., the innocent must always be protected from unfounded sentences, while it is sufficient that the guilty be generally punished; Supreme Court [Sentence of the Spanish Supreme Court] 213/2002). [...]forensic evidence is required to have a zero rate of false positives -that is, to determine that there is psychological harm resulting from the facts under investigation, when this is not the case (e.g., Supreme Court [Sentence of the Spanish Supreme Court] 1029/1997). [...]the forensic diagnosis is required in court to ensure that causal link between the act under investigation for each symptom, as well as the reality of the event (Arce, 2018).