Session Abstract: The presenters in this symposium will describe an evidence-based, multi-method approach to the evaluation of PTSD in psychological injury evaluations. Each presenter will describe the strengths and limitations of one method for testing rival hypotheses about the presence or absence of PTSD. Following a didactic presentation, each presenter will provide clinical data for the … Continue reading Multimethod Assessment of PTSD in Psychological Injury Evaluations
Assessment of PTSD and Trauma Symptoms with the MMPI-3: Validity and Incremental Utility of the Anxiety Related Experiences (ARX) Scale
Coordinating Author Information: Megan Keen | Texas Tech University Session Abstract: The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-3 (MMPI-3; Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2020a,b) was recently released and includes several important revisions, including item-content addition and wording revision to Anxiety [AXY], the premiere measures of PTSD symptoms on the MMPI-3’s predecessor (Sellbom et al., 2021; Wolf et al., 2008). … Continue reading Assessment of PTSD and Trauma Symptoms with the MMPI-3: Validity and Incremental Utility of the Anxiety Related Experiences (ARX) Scale
“¿Me entiendes?”: The Complexity of Assessing Bilingual Youth with Trauma
Session Abstract: Our symposium demonstrates the importance of language when assessing bilingual latinx youth’s social-emotional functioning. We discuss two clinical cases of youth of differing ages and clinical presentations. In one case, a first generation immigrant youth demonstrates how she uses language to adapt to a new country by adopted English as her preferred language. … Continue reading “¿Me entiendes?”: The Complexity of Assessing Bilingual Youth with Trauma
Considerations and Reflections on Collaborative Therapeutic Assessment in Community Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Coordinating Author Information: Jessica Lipkind, PsyD | WestCoast Children's Clinic Session Abstract: During the COVID-19 pandemic, assessors in community-based settings had to make a quick shift to tele-assessment (Corey & Ben-Porath, 2020; Wright & Raiford, 2021). Doing so has required flexibility, creativity, and a willingness to grow and reimagine how we engage with our clients. Over … Continue reading Considerations and Reflections on Collaborative Therapeutic Assessment in Community Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Reigniting the Flame of Hope: CTA Approaches to Attachment, Shame, Mistrust, and Suicide
Session Abstract: SPA’s 2022 Call for Programs requests offerings that 1) give fresh perspectives on personality assessment and 2) connections to overall psychological assessment. Hope is not a new idea; its use and perspective in psychology goes back decades. Its “freshness” stems from the perspective it continues to give in confronting and surmounting life’s challenges. This … Continue reading Reigniting the Flame of Hope: CTA Approaches to Attachment, Shame, Mistrust, and Suicide
Emerging Research with the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (1.25 CE Credits)
Corresponding Author Information: Donald J. Viglione Session Abstract: These five, diverse, international studies demonstrate the growth of the research base to R-PAS. Complexity as a Moderator of the Relationship of Rorschach Measures with Psychosis and Severity of Disturbance: Research has demonstrated that the R-PAS Perception and Thinking problems variables are valid measures of psychotic phenomena … Continue reading Emerging Research with the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (1.25 CE Credits)
Object Relations in Psychopathology in Cancer Patients
Corresponding Author Information: Kate Szymanski Session Abstract: BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Approximately 42 million people worldwide suffer from any form of trauma of cancer, and this number is growing. Research shows that negative interpersonal relationships with physicians, mental health workers and family members correlate with more severe psychopathology and less adherence to treatment for cancer patients … Continue reading Object Relations in Psychopathology in Cancer Patients
Paternal Attachment as a Mediator for the Transmission of Parental Trauma: Gender Effects
Corresponding Author Information: Lauren Loughlin Session Abstract: BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Research on parental traumas showed mediating effects of insecure paternal attachment in transmitting intergenerational trauma to young adult children (Spiel & Szymanski, 2018). Further studies demonstrated a gender effect in assessing impact of intergenerational parental trauma. For example, Godbout et al. (2019) found that father’s trauma … Continue reading Paternal Attachment as a Mediator for the Transmission of Parental Trauma: Gender Effects