ABSTRACT
Malingering of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has become a growing concern in healthcare settings, related in part to the fact that PTSD claims are increasing in number, and estimates of symptom exaggeration and malingering in these cases indicate an increasing loss of societal resources to fraud (Taylor, Frueh, & Asmundson, 2007). Questions regarding the possible presence of PTSD arise with some regularity in personal injury and worker’s compensation cases. As such, numerous treatises have appeared in the relevant literature regarding the importance of carefully considering the logical difficulties in establishing the degree of evidence necessary for forensic assessment of stress claims, including differential diagnosis involving PTSD (e.g., Hall & Hall, 2006; Sparr & Pitman, 1999).
