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Although specific sessions are still being finalized, in-person attendees may be eligible for up to 13.75 CEs through APA.
Sessions noted with LIVE STREAMED are being presented both in person and live streamed to virtual registrants. All registrants will have access to these sessions and lectures for a limited time after the convention.
Thursday, March 10th
Concurrent Session 1 | 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
“¿Me entiendes?”: The Complexity of Assessing Bilingual Youth with Trauma (LIVE STREAMED) |
SPAGS Presents | Applying to Internship: A How-To Guide Written by Successful Applicants (LIVE STREAMED) |
"Do Other Kids have Dark Thoughts?...Maybe I'm a Psychopath?!" Using Multi-Method Collaborative Assessment to "Sign Post" Results and Next Steps for Parents and Therapists in a Dialectical Behavior Therapy Clinic |
Integrated Papers: Assessment of Suicide |
A Noose is Tightening: Performance-Based Personality Data Associated with Sub-Intentioned Suicidal Behavior in Combat Veterans |
Suicide Risk Screening in the Primary Medical Care Setting: A New Approach |
Integrated Papers: Assessing Response Style with PAI and Other Tests |
Adjusting for Defensiveness in MMPI-2-RF Substantive Scale Scores of Sex Offenders |
Assessing Defensive Functioning and Interpersonal Relatedness in an Outpatient Psychiatric Population |
Assessing Demoralization with the Personality Assessment Inventory: Introducing the PAI-DEM-27 |
Behavioral Indicators to Detect Socially Desirable Responding |
Integrated Papers: Single Tests and New Scales |
C.W.S. (Crisi Wartegg System) and Early Psychosis (“First-Episode Psychosis” or “First-Break Psychosis”) |
Development and Evaluation of an Object Relations Measure for the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank |
How Starke Hathaway and William Estes Extracted Most of the Signal in the MMPI Psychasthenia Scale (Pt), While Retaining Most of the Noise |
Screening Air Traffic Control Specialists with the MMPI-2: Two New Scales to Increase Predictive Utility |
Poster Sessions 1 | 5:15 pm - 6:15 pm
Friday, March 11th
Concurrent Session 2 | 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Building an Assessment Practice: Practical Applications and Real World Experience (LIVE STREAMED) |
Utilization of a Culturally Focused Semi-Structured Interview (WCSCI) in Clinical Assessment Training: Input from Trainees, Supervisors, and Clients (LIVE STREAMED) |
Clinical Utility of the AMPD in a Specialized Clinic for Personality Disorder: Case-Conceptualization and Client Feedback |
Integrated Papers: Children and Rorschach |
How Often Does that Happen? Insights from 20 years of Adolescent Rorschachs |
Rorschach Introversive Style and Its Relation to Psychopathology and Symptom Presentation in Inpatient Children |
Multimethod Assessment of Psychosis |
New Advances in Malingering Research and Symptom Validity Assessment |
Concurrent Session 3 | 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Can We Talk? Facilitating a Dialogue Between Clinicians and Researchers (LIVE STREAMED) |
Flourishing, Languishing, and Just Getting By: Applied and Empirical Perspectives on Personality and the COVID-19 Pandemic (LIVE STREAMED) |
Integrated Papers: Alternative Model of Personality Disorders |
Associations between MMPI-3 Scale Scores and AMPD/ICD-11 Personality Disorder in a Community Mental Health Sample |
Constructing an Item-Level Measure of Criterion A of the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders with the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) |
Trading Patients: Applying the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders to Two Cases of DSM-5 Borderline Personality Disorder Over Time and Across Therapists |
Use of Criterion A Elements to Discriminate Borderline and Antisocial Personality Features |
What’s in a name: Can a dimensional trait model reduce bias against borderline personality disorder? |
Reigniting the Flame of Hope: CTA Approaches to Attachment, Shame, Mistrust, and Suicide |
Rorschach History Roundtable |
SPA's Education & Training Interest Group Presents: Common Pitfalls and Roadblocks to Successful Assessment Training |
Flash Sessions 1 | 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Effects of Adolescent Motivation and Personality on Adherence and Success in a Voluntary Residential Bootcamp Program |
Examining the Construct Validity of the MMPI-3 SUI scale in a Sample of Depressed College Students |
Implications of Understanding Clients’ Attachment Patterns on Psychotherapy Processes and Outcomes |
Predictive Validity of the Structured Assessment of Protective Factors (SAPROF): A Meta-Analytic Review |
Saturday, March 12th
Concurrent Session 4 | 9:00 am - 10:30 am
A Roundtable Discussion of the Professional Practice Guidelines for Personality Assessment (LIVE STREAMED) |
Integrated Papers: Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) and the MMPI-A-RF/MMPI-2-RF/MMPI-3(LIVE STREAMED) |
A Proposed HiTOP Classification System for the MMPI-A and MMPI-A-RF |
Further Mapping of the MMPI-3 onto HiTOP in a Primary Medical Care Sample |
Interpreting the MMPI-A-RF in the context of the HiTOP Psychosis Superspectrum: Findings from an adolescent inpatient sample. |
Somatoform's Placement and Validity in the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) In Persons Seeking Treatment for Chronic Low Back Pain |
Integrated Papers: Varied Papers: Sexual Offenses, Personality Disorders, and Criminal Justice |
An Examination of Criterion B Traits within a Sample of Men Charged with/Convicted of Sexual Offenses |
Identifying meaningful subtypes in patients with BPD using the MMPI-2-RF: A Latent Profile Analysis approach to the BOOTS data |
Using Network Analysis to Understand Antisocial and Borderline Personality Disorder Across Race/Ethnicity in a Justice-Involved Sample |
Object Relations and Multi-Method Assessment |
Self-Supervision and Psychological Testing: Second and Third Looks |
SPAGS PRESENTS | Blended Families: Cultivating a Culturally Inclusive Approach to Supervision and Mentorship |
Concurrent Session 5 | 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Personality Assessments in Legal Contexts: A SpecialIssue of the Journal of Personality Assessment (LIVE STREAMED) |
Using the Personality Assessment Inventory to Assess the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (LIVE STREAMED) |
"Going Down Rabbit Holes in the Basement": Using Collaborative, Multi-Method Assessment to Clarify a Case of ADHD in an Adolescent |
Integrated Papers: International & Multi-ethnic Studies |
Convergence between Rorschach and Self-Report Data of Traumatized Refugees Assessed Before and After Psychotherapy |
Exploring Potential Ethnic Bias among MMPI-3 Scales in Assessing Personality Psychopathology |
Measurement Invariance of the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire across China, Hong Kong, and the United States |
Multi-National Evaluation of the Measurement Invariance of the Level of Personality Functioning Scale – Brief Form 2.0: Comparison of Student and Community Samples Across Seven Countries |
Translation, adaption and validation of the LPFS-BF 2.0 and PID5BF+ M for assessing PD criterion A and B in Spanish speaking Chilean population |
Integrated Papers: Varied Papers: Assessment Practices and Rorschach Variables |
An Examination of the Oral Dependent Language Variable in the Rorschach Inkblot Test |
An Investigation of Errors Produced by Psychological Trainees in Rorschach Administration: Implications for Determinants and Protocol Complexity |
Assessment Practices: Findings from a 2020 Survey |
Emotion regulation processes: an integrative investigation of cognitive, affective, and neurobiological features |
Understanding the Role of Therapeutic Techniques in the Provision of Psychological Assessment |
Integrated Papers: Varied Papers: Personality Disorders in Sexual Minorities, and Psychopathy/Dark Triad |
Personality Pathology among Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Individuals: Factor Analysis of the Personality Inventory for the DSM-5 Brief Form |
Psychopathy Testing Bias in Sexual Orientation Minorities: A Slope-Intercept Bias Approach |
Using Latent Profiles of Impulsivity to Differentiate Constructs of the Dark Triad |
Flash Sessions 2 | 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm
Congruence of the Self-Concept and Criterion A Personality Functioning |
Dynamic Assessment of Affective Variability in Narcissistic Grandiosity and Vulnerability |
Exploring the Relationship Between Personality Pathology and Political Extremism: Issues with Empathy and Stress Regulation |
The Effect of Borderline Personality Disorder Traits & Aversive Relationship Maintenance Tactics on Sexual Violence Perpetration |
Concurrent Session 6 | 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Multimethod Assessment of PTSD in Psychological Injury Evaluations (LIVE STREAMED) |
Annual Update on Experimental and Neurophysiological Rorschach Research (LIVE STREAMED) |
Authenticity in Potential Space : The Work of Bruce Smith |
Integrated Papers: MMPI-3: New Research |
Examining Links between (Low) MMPI-3 Discontraint Scale Scores and the Five Factor Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory |
Examining the criterion validity of the MMPI-3 Substance Abuse (SUB) scale in a clinical neuropsychological assessment sample |
MMPI-3 Scores and Psychological History Data in Public Safety Preemployment Evaluations |
The Structure of the Internalizing Spectrum: Conjoint Analyses of MMPI-3 and MEDI Scales |
Integrated Papers: Multi-Method Assessment in Varied Contexts |
Assessing pain perception through the MMPI-3: A comparison of multimethod measures |
Multi-method, Multi-rater Validation of Interpersonal Behavior Measured by Ambulatory Assessment |
Multiple Approaches to Examining Measurement Invariance of Schizotypy Scales Across Gender |
Personality Assesment of Adolescents in Virtual Reality Space |
Poster Sessions 2 | 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
A Construct Validation of Malignant Self-Regard and a Bridge to its Neurobiological Substrates |
An Alternative Approach to TOMM Validity: Examining the Role of Balanced Accuracy Scores in Determining Cut-off Values |
Authoritarian Personality Revisited: Assessing Social Manifestations of Authoritarianism, Ethnocentrism, and Political-Economic Conservatism |
Dependency, Detachment, and Interpersonal Functioning: A Meta-Analytic Review of Evidence from the Relationship Profile Test |
Dependency and Detachment Across Culture and Context: Contrasting Relationship Profile Test Scores in Taiwanese and American Participants |
Development of a Self-Report Measure of Object Relations Based on the SCORS-G |
Dreams and Rorschach: A Study of Possible Correlations |
Elucidating the Dark Side of Personality: The Psychometric Properties of the Dark Core Inventory – Norwegian Version |
Facets of the Five Factor Model and Negative Thoughts Predicting Non-Suicidal Self-Injury |
Histrionic Personality Pathology and the Triarchic Model of Psychopathy |
Influence of Maladaptive Personality Traits on Machiavellianism |
IPIP-NEO-120 in Norwegian: A Pilot Study of Psychometric Properties |
LIWC Versus Interpersonal Decentering from Breakup Narratives and Their Relationship to Depressed Mood |
Psychological Symptoms and Performance as a Function of the Menstrual Cycle |
Psychopathy and Informed Consent Completion |
Shortlisted: A Comparison of the Psychometric Properties of Two Short Forms of the Experiences in Close Relationship (ERC) Scale in a Clinical Sample |
The Comparability and Validity of the Remote and In-Person Administrations of the IOP-29 and IOP-M |
The Effects of COVID-19 on the Mental Health of Gamers |
The Impact of Perfectionism on Grit and Self-Handicapping |
Understanding the Relationship Between Criterion A's Personality Functioning and NSSI |