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The
First European Symposium on Symptom Validity Assessment
08th - 9th May 2009 (EUR-SVA) |
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Würzburg/Germany
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| Convenors: | Prof.
Dr. Rolf Schneider, Aschaffenburg, Germany Prof. Dr. Claus-W. Wallesch, Elzach, Germany |
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| Program Chair: | Dr. Stuart Anderson, Shoreham-by-Sea, UK | ||
| UK: | Dr. Vicki Hacker, Birmingham, UK | ||
| USA: | Dr. Glenn Larrabee, Sarasota, FL, USA | ||
| Germany: | Dr.
Robbi Brockhaus, Krefeld, Germany Dr. Thomas Merten, Berlin, Germany |
| Organization | |||
| Akademie
bei König & Müller, Würzburg, Germany, (www.koenigundmueller.de) Dipl.-Psych. Herbert König, Dipl.-Psych. Gerhard Müller |
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| Conference Report (Dr. Stuart Anderson) | ||
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Program
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Friday
08 May 2009
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| 12:00 - 13:00 | Arrival / Registration | Akademie
bei König & Müller |
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| 13:00 - 13:10 | Welcome | Rolf Schneider, Aschaffenburg, GermanyClaus-W. Wallesch, Elzach, Germany | ||
| 13:10 - 13:15 | Keynote introduction | Stuart Anderson, Shoreham-on-Sea, UK |
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Session
1: Conceptual and Methodological Issues
Moderation: Kevin Bianchini |
| 13:15 - 14:00 | Keynote Speaker | Jerry Sweet, Evanston, IL, USA | ||
| Toward consensus on assessing the validity of symptoms | ||||
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Talk 2 | Manfred Greiffenstein, Royal Oak, MI, USA | ||
| Challenges in the diagnosis of malingering | ||||
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Talk 3 | Shane Bush, Lake Ronkonkoma, NY, USA | ||
| Ethical Considerations in SV assessment |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Coffee
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| 15:30 - 16:15 | Keynote Speaker | Kevin Greve, New Orleans, LA, USA | ||
| Different methods of assessment: What are the choices? | ||||
| 16:15 - 16:35 | Talk 5 | Robbi Brockhaus, Krefeld, Germany | ||
| Cross-cultural symptom validity assessment | ||||
| 16:55 - 17:15 | Talk 6 | Thomas Merten, Berlin, Germany | ||
| Symptom validity assessment in German speaking countries |
| 17:15 - 17:45 |
Coffee
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| 17:45 - 18:05 | Talk 7 | Alan Moss, Sutton Coldfield, UK | ||
| SVT in the UK: Perceptions and challenges | ||||
| 18:25 - 18:45 | Talk 8 | Bernhard Widder, Günzburg, Germany | ||
| Validation problems in the assessment of chronic pain and stress-related disorders | ||||
| 18:45 - 19:00 | Diskussion | Plenum |
| 20:00 |
Evening
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Saturday
09 May 2009
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Session
2: Assessment and Forensic Issues
Moderation: Jerry Sweet |
| 09:00 - 09:50 | Keynote Speaker | Rolf Schneider, Aschaffenburg, Germany | ||
| Medical experts and evidence based medicine | ||||
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Talk 10 | Claus-W. Wallesch, Elzach & Matthias Henry, Magdeburg, Germany | ||
| Symptom validation in neurological legal evaluations | ||||
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Talk 11 | Kevin Greve, New Orleans, LA, USA | ||
| Diagnostic statistics |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee
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| 11:00 - 11:20 | Talk 13 | Ben Schmand, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | ||
| On the limits of effort testing | ||||
| 11:20 - 12:10 | Keynote Speaker | Paul Green, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | ||
| Data from 8- and 80-year-olds on the MSVT, NV-MSVT & WMT | ||||
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Talk 14 | Chris Jones and Vicki Hacker, Birmingham, UK | ||
| How useful are the WAIS-III and WMS-III in symptom validity testing? |
| 12:30 - 13:30 |
Lunch
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| 13:30 - 14:00 | Talk 15 | Harald Merckelbach, Maastricht, The Netherlands | ||
| Symptom validity assessment: effects of coaching and setting | ||||
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Talk 16 | Manfred Greiffenstein, Royal Oak, MI, USA | ||
| Use of psychopathology measures in the assessment of symptom validity | ||||
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Talk 17 | Kevin Bianchini, Metairie, LA, USA | ||
| Malingered pain-related disability | ||||
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Round table | Jerry Sweet, Kevin Greve, Rolf Schneider, Paul Green | ||
| Moderation: Thomas Merten |
| 16:00 |
Close
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Stuart Anderson, Shoreham-by-Sea, UK |