Corresponding Author Information: Luciano Giromini
Session Abstract: Recent research has demonstrated that the IOP-29 is a perfect complement to performance validity tests like the TOMM in the multi-method assessment of symptom validity. As such, we developed an incidental recall task to be used immediately after administering the IOP-29 to evaluate the credibility of presented memory problems. In this paper, we present the development of this new IOP-29 add-on application, which we named the IOP-M, and report on some initial research testing its validity and utility. More specifically, we describe the leading principles we attended to when refining the IOP-M throughout its six versions, as well as the empirical findings we obtained in this pilot research. Additionally, we also summarize findings from six international studies investigating the classification accuracy and incremental validity of the IOP-M with participants from Italy, France, Slovenia, Brazil, England and Australia. Taken together, these preliminary reports suggest that using the IOP-M in combination with the IOP-29 yields some incremental validity, not only when inspecting feigned cognitive problems (e.g., mTBI symptoms) but also when focusing on feigned depression, PTSD or schizophrenia.
Presenters:
Luciano Giromini | Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Italy
Donald J. Viglione | California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, San Diego, CA
Alessandro Zennaro | Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Italy
Anna Maffei | Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Italy
Laszlo Erdodi | University of Windsor, Canada
Dr. Luciano Giromini
Luciano Giromini, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, and core faculty member for the Ph.D. program in Psychological, Anthropological and Educational Sciences of the University of Turin, Italy. He has taught psychological assessment and psychometrics at two Italian and one Californian universities, and is currently the coordinator of the Evidence-Based Psychological Assessment research team of University of Turin. He is one of the authors of the Inventory of Problems (IOP-29 and IOP-M) and Assessment Section Head for the journal Psychological Injury and Law.
Dr. Donald J. Viglione
Donald J. Viglione, Ph.D. is a Distinguished Professor at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University in San Diego. He is a co-author of the two international measures, the Inventory of Problems, a malingering test, and the Rorschach Performance Assessment System, a widely used Rorschach system. At Alliant in San Diego, he was the founding Director of the Doctor of Psychology degree program and later the Director of Doctor Philosophy degree. He trained with Dr. John Exner at Long Island University, where he was awarded his Ph.D and served an internship in the United States Navy. He has focused his teaching, research, and clinical/forensic practice on assessment and has published more than 100 professional papers. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Assessment Psychology and a Fellow of the Society for Personality Assessment.
Dr. Laszlo Erdodi
Dr. Erdodi is an Associate Professor in Psychology and a licensed clinical neuropsychologist. He completed his PhD in Clinical Psychology at Eastern Michigan University, and pre-doctoral internship at the London Health Sciences Center specializing in clinical neuropsychology. After one year in private practice focusing on forensic neuropsychology, he completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in clinical neuropsychology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He joined the Department of Psychology in 2014 as a member of the Clinical Neuropsychology Track. His long-standing research interests revolve around psychometrics, performance validity testing in neuropsychological assessment, the relationship between cognitive and emotional functioning, and limited English proficiency as a confounding variable in neurocognitive testing. He is also interested in the broader issue of instrumentation in psychological assessment: the interaction among administration time, order effects, testing paradigms, the influence of contextual variables (geographic region, incentive status, trauma history, current psychosocial functioning) on the clinical interpretation of test data. The psychometric, diagnostic and clinical challenges inherent in the assessment and treatment of patients with medically unexplained symptoms or with complex psychological trauma history, along with cross-cultural neuropsychology are his emerging areas of interest.