SPA has a variety of program types at our Annual Convention. Click on each category to learn more about each type.
Symposia are professional talks on theory, research, or practice given by presenters individually in authoritative expert style to the audience. These sessions entail the presentation of a series of papers in which presenters make an effort to integrate the content of the papers with one another. Integration can be achieved in a number of ways (for example, presenters may comment on one another’s papers, or a discussant may provide a commentary integrating the material in the papers). Presenters may range from students to seasoned professionals. Symposia require joint submission of papers, typically by the session organizer, who chairs the session. Generally, papers are allowed 15 minutes for presentation and questions, but the session organizer may prepare a program with fewer, but longer, presentations at their discretion.
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Case discussions offer the opportunity to share specific details with attendees around uses and experiences with assessment, whether it is in individual, couple, family, group, or organizational contexts. Although we are interested in learning about the case context, method, and description, we encourage case discussions to also discuss the substantive clinical and/or theoretical contributions to the literature.
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Roundtables are an opportunity for attendees to gather around a specific topic or issue. Although we encourage some theoretical foundation to these discussion, roundtables offer an opportunity for attendees to evolve professionally and occupationally, including acquiring skills to develop professional endurance, acquiring specializations, balancing individual and professional needs, etc. Topics welcomed include for example:
- Career Strategy
- Organization of a Private Practice
- Preventing Burn Out
- Advice to Acquire Advanced Residency
- Trainings or Diplomate Degrees
- Financial Considerations in Practice
- Advice to Progress into Leadership Positions
- Advertise or the Use of Media to Enhance Private Practice
- How to Access Open-Source Data for Research
- How to Obtain Government Contracts or Grants
- Balancing Career and Family, etc.
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If you have a compelling individual paper topic focusing either on research or clinical material but do not or cannot submit it as a symposia, please submit it as an individual paper. If accepted, the Convention Program Chair will group individual papers into a topic area and assign a session title. Presenters may range from students to seasoned professionals. Papers are allowed 15 minutes for presentation and questions.
View Our 2022 Papers Below
| A Noose is Tightening: Performance-Based Personality Data Associated with Sub-Intentioned Suicidal Behavior in Combat Veterans |
| A Proposed HiTOP Classification System for the MMPI-A and MMPI-A-RF |
| Adjusting for Defensiveness in MMPI-2-RF Substantive Scale Scores of Sex Offenders |
| An Examination of Criterion B Traits within a Sample of Men Charged with/Convicted of Sexual Offenses |
| 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 |
| Assessing Defensive Functioning and Interpersonal Relatedness in an Outpatient psychiatric population |
| Assessing Demoralization with the Personality Assessment Inventory: Introducing the PAI-DEM-27 |
| Assessing Pain Perception through the MMPI-3: A Comparison of Multi-Method Measures |
| Assessment Practices: Findings from a 2020 Survey |
| Associations between MMPI-3 Scale Scores and AMPD/ICD-11 Personality Disorder in a Community Mental Health Sample |
| BEHAVIORAL INDICATORS TO DETECT SOCIALLY DESIRABLE RESPONDING |
| C.W.S. (Crisi Wartegg System) and Early Psychosis (“first-episode psychosis” or “first-break psychosis”). |
| Congruence of the Self-Concept and Criterion A Personality Functioning |
| Constructing an Item-Level Measure of Criterion A of the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders with the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) |
| Convergence between Rorschach and Self-Report Data of Traumatized Refugees Before and After Psychotherapy |
| Development and Evaluation of an Object Relations Measure for the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank |
| Emotion regulation processes: an integrative investigation of cognitive, affective, and neurobiological features |
| 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 |
| Exploring Potential Ethnic Bias among MMPI-3 Scales in Assessing Personality Psychopathology |
| Further Mapping of the MMPI-3 onto HiTOP in a Primary Medical Care Sample |
| How Often Does that Happen? Insights from 20 years of Adolescent Rorschachs |
| How Starke Hathaway and William Estes Extracted Most of the Signal in the MMPI Psychasthenia Scale (Pt), While Retaining Most of the Noise |
| Identifying meaningful subtypes in patients with BPD using the MMPI-2-RF: A Latent Profile Analysis approach to the BOOTS data |
| Interpreting the MMPI-A-RF in the context of the HiTOP Psychosis Superspectrum: Findings from an adolescent inpatient sample. |
| Manifestation of complex and single trauma in children's rorschach: A comparative Study |
| Measurement Invariance of the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire across China, Hong Kong, and the United States |
| MMPI-3 Scores and Psychological History Data in Public Safety Preemployment Evaluations |
| Multi-method, Multi-rater Validation of Interpersonal Behavior Measured by Ambulatory Assessment |
| 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 |
| Multiple Approaches to Examining Measurement Invariance of Schizotypy Scales Across Gender |
| Personality Assessment of Adolescents in Virtual Reality Space |
| 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 |
| Rorschach Introversive Style and Its Relation to Psychopathology and Symptom Presentation in Inpatient Children |
| Somatoform's Placement and Validity in the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) In Persons Seeking Treatment for Chronic Low Back Pain |
| Screening Air Traffic Control Specialists with the MMPI-2: Two New Scales to Increase Predictive Utility |
| Suicide Risk Screening in the Primary Medical Care Setting: A New Approach |
| The Effect of Borderline Personality Disorder Traits & Aversive Relationship Maintenance Tactics on Sexual Violence Perpetration |
| The pre-employment psychological evaluation of the police officer recruit: It is time for a change. |
| The Structure of the Internalizing Spectrum: Conjoint Analyses of MMPI-3 and MEDI Scales |
| Trading Patients: Applying the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders to Two Cases of DSM-5 Borderline Personality Disorder Over Time and Across Therapists |
| 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 |
| Understanding the Role of Therapeutic Techniques in the Provision of Psychological Assessment |
| Use of Criterion A Elements to Discriminate Borderline and Antisocial Personality Features |
| Using Latent Profiles of Impulsivity to Differentiate Constructs of the Dark Triad |
| Using Network Analysis to Understand Antisocial and Borderline Personality Disorder Across Race/Ethnicity in a Justice-Involved Sample |
| What’s in a name: Can a dimensional trait model reduce bias against borderline personality disorder? |
Poster presenters will prepare a visual depiction of a research study, case analysis, or other type of material relevant to personality assessment, typically including descriptive text along with tables and/or figures. New this year, poster sessions may be for a completed study or a proposed study, so no need to have your research complete to present.
View Our 2022 Posters Below
Posters
| A Cluster Analysis of Primary and Secondary Psychopathy |
| A Construct Validation of Malignant Self-Regard and a Bridge to its Neurobiological Substrates |
| Affect Scores and Big Five Personality Factors Predict Health Mandate Adherence for Older Adults During the COVID-19 Outbreak |
| An Alternative Approach to TOMM Validity: Examining the Role of Balanced Accuracy Scores in Determining Cut-off Values |
| An Exploration of the Relationship between Defense Mechanisms and the Dimensions of the HiTOP Model |
| Assessment of PTSD and Trauma Symptoms with the MMPI-3: Validity and Incremental Utility of the Anxiety Related Experiences (ARX) scale |
| Authoritarian Personality Revisited: Assessing Social Manifestations of Authoritarianism, Ethnocentrism, and Political-Economic Conservatism |
| Clinician and trainee familiarity with the DSM-5 Alternative Model of Personality Disorders |
| Cognitive complexity in the Rorschach and Zulliger tests : a convergent validity and feasibility study |
| Congruence of the Self-Concept and Criterion A Personality Functioning |
| Countdown to Launch: Using VR Escape Room Technology to Assess Team Performance and Leadership |
| Dependency and Detachment Across Culture and Context: Contrasting Relationship Profile Test Scores in Taiwanese and American Participants |
| Dependency, Detachment, and Interpersonal Functioning: A Meta-Analytic Review of Evidence from the Relationship Profile Test |
| Development of a self-report measure of object relations based on the SCORS-G |
| Distinctions in interpersonal influence tactics between psychopathic personality traits and the Big Five |
| Dreams and Rorschach: A study of possible correlations |
| Dynamic Assessment of Affective Variability in Narcissistic Grandiosity and Vulnerability |
| Effects of Adolescent Motivation and Personality on Adherence and Success in a Voluntary Residential Bootcamp Program |
| Elucidating the dark side of personality: The psychometric properties of the Dark Core Inventory – Norwegian version |
| Examining the Construct Validity of the MMPI-3 SUI scale in a Sample of Depressed College Students |
| Exploring the Relationship Between Personality Pathology and Political Extremism: Issues with Empathy and Stress Regulation |
| Facets of the Five Factor Model and Negative Thoughts Predicting Non-Suicidal Self-Injury |
| Histrionic Personality Pathology and the Triarchic Model of Psychopathy |
| IMPLICATIONS OF UNDERSTANDING CLIENTS’ ATTACHMENT PATTERNS ON PSYCHOTHERAPY PROCESSES AND OUTCOMES |
| Influence of Maladaptive Personality Traits on Machiavellianism |
| Interpersonal Functioning of Japanese Individuals with Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome |
| IPIP-NEO-120 in Norwegian: A Pilot Study of Psychometric Properties |
| Is there really a mental health crisis among today's college students? |
| Links between the Big Five Personality traits, Nostalgia and Happiness among older adults |
| LIWC Versus Interpersonal Decentering from Breakup Narratives and Their Relationship to Depressed Mood |
| Pathological Narcissism and Borderline Personality Organization |
| Pathological Personality Traits Predicting Interpersonal and Functional Impairment Among College Students |
| Predictive Validity of the Structured Assessment of Protective Factors (SAPROF): A Meta-Analytic Review |
| Psychological symptoms and performance as a function of the menstrual cycle |
| Psychopathy and Informed Consent Completion |
| Publication Rates and QRPs of MMPI and Rorschach Dissertations Compared to the Broader Field of Clinical Psychology |
| Relationships between Psychological Symptoms and the Variability in Self-Report Test Completion Time |
| Relative Influence of Big Five Traits and Mindfulness on Alcohol Use |
| Self-Orientation on the MMPI-3: Investigating Differences in Individuals with Elevated SFD with versus without Interpretable Low SFI |
| Shortlisted: A comparison of the psychometric properties of two short forms of the Experiences in Close Relationship (ERC) scale in a clinical sample |
| The Alternative Model of Personality Disorders and Older Adults: The Role of Perceived Health Status |
| THE COMPARABILITY AND VALIDITY OF THE REMOTE AND IN-PERSON ADMINISTRATIONS OF THE IOP-29 AND IOP-M |
| The Dark Triad, Anger Rumination, and Criminal Maladaptive Behaviors |
| 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 |
| Utility of Dimensional Personality Assessment in Capturing Disordered Eating Symptomology |
| Validity of the Somatic Symptom Scale (SSS-8) in a Community Sample |
| When Test Revisions Disrupt Our Lives, What’s a Psychologist to Do? Updates to Mihura et al.’s (2017) Survey of Doctoral Training in Adult Personality Tests |
In lieu of a 15- minute paper presentation or just a poster during the poster presentations, presenters are given the opportunity to give a live 3-minute overview of their completed project or proposal (using PowerPoint or similar) to all attendees. It is expected that these presentations will also have a poster featured during one of the two poster session time blocks on Thursday or Saturday.
To learn more about our Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice track, please click here.