“…In this regard, Bush, Ruff, Troster, Barth, Koffler, Pliskin, Reynolds, and Silver (2005) and Heilbronner, Sweet, Morgan, Larrabee, Millis, and Conference Participants (2009) published position statements on the use of PVTs/SVTs in neuropsychological assessment. Under the auspices of the Association for Scientific Advancement in Psychological Injury and Law (ASAPIL), Bush, Heilbronner and Ruff (2014) broadened the scope of their prior position statements (Bush et al, 2005;Heilbronner et al, 2009) so that their new statement considers more than neuropsychological assessment; the revised version that they created also is applicable to assessments for PTSD and for chronic pain. In the following, I summarize the key points of the two articles.…”