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- Title
Social Work and Malingering.
- Authors
Murdach, Allison D.
- Abstract
This article discusses malingering through a sociological lenses and presents several methods for social workers to adopt when confronting this mindset in patients. It defines malingering as the production of false or grossly exaggerated physical or psychological symptoms in pursuit of external incentives, such as escaping criminal prosecution, receiving financial compensation, or gaining access to drugs. In most situations malingering is viewed as a highly stigmatizing pattern of behavior, a form of social disability that requires careful assessment, monitoring, and management for the client to be helped. Treatment suggestions include keeping discussions with malingering clients focused on well-defined, immediate, and verifiable problems, and maintaining clinical distance.
- Subjects
SOCIAL workers; MANIPULATIVE behavior; PATIENT psychology; HUMAN services; PATIENT compliance; SOCIAL case work; INTERVENTION (Social services); COUNSELOR-client relationship; SOCIAL psychology; HUMAN behavior
- Publication
Health & Social Work, 2006, Vol 31, Issue 2, p155
- ISSN
0360-7283
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/hsw/31.2.155