Author Archives: Dr. Ingram's Psychology Research Lab

Nicole did some excellent work to build on the limited literature on PAI validity scales, evaluating their effectiveness in a military sample evaluated within a neuropsychology clinic. We used performance validity (PVT; MSVT, NVMSVT) to compare group differences. Limited work has been done prior to now on some of the PAI validity scales (see McCredieContinue reading “Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) Over-reporting Scale Effectiveness”

One of my fantastic undergraduates conducted a study using existing MMPI-3 study data (Morris et al., 2021; Reeves et al., 2022) to compare the effectiveness of the over-reporting scales across in person and virtual administrations. Given the guidelines put out about telehealth assessment (Corey & Ben-Porath, 2020) and the expanding research on general comparative effectsContinue reading “Undergraduate Research: MMPI-3 scales are similar in-person and virtual”

In case you’re wondering, how does what I do make sense to me? This is how! I try to involve most of my projects with at least two of these intersecting areas of focus. I also wanted an excuse to post a stick figure.

Today (in about 30 minutes from my writing this) I’m going to be presenting to Division 12 (Clinical Psychology)’s section for Students and Early Career Professions (formally called Section Ten). I’m super excited to help demystify the internship process and help applicants maximize their success and desired career trajectories. I also want to make sureContinue reading “Webinar on Internship: Get the Materials here!”

Over the last few years I’ve started to delve into competency research, particularly around psychological assessment. In brief, research over the last two decades has clearly detailed that students do not have a sufficient amount of training in psychological assessment to effectively and efficiently conduct the higher-order conceptual tasks associated with diagnosis and behavior predictionContinue reading “Assessment competency: What is it, who has it, and how do we move the needle for masters level providers in psych science?”

Suicide is a low frequency, high impact behavior. By extension, assessment of suicide is a critical component to effective mental health intervention. Research on suicide has expanded (see Bryan’s [2021] Rethinking Suicide: Why Prevention Fails, and how We Can Do Better, for instance) to suggest that future prediction of risk is also more complicated thatContinue reading “Clinical Judgement in Suicide Assessment: Using outpatient Veteran intakes to test the viability of high impact decision making”

I’m excited that the work out of the PATS lab is reaching the folks who can use it. Earlier this year, I published an article looking at internship site competitiveness for health service psychology graduate students from the perspective of Directors of Training. Next month, I will be presenting to the section for students andContinue reading “Sharing Research: Internship Application Process and Outcomes”

The Cognitive Bias Scale (CBS) was recently developed for the PAI (see Gaasedelen et al., 2019). The rationale behind the CBS’s development was that the PAI lacked any over-reporting indicators which assessed cognitive performance, and other personality inventories (i.e., MMPI-2-RF and MMPI-3) had such measures (e.g., Response Bias Scale [RBS]). Using similar methodology that wasContinue reading “The Personality Assessment Inventory’s Cognitive Bias Scale: Validation of the Scale of Scale Formats in a Military Sample”

New Paper Alert, with not 1 but THREE of my advisees! Download the paper HERE Study Context The MMPI-3 is the latest revision in the line of the MMPI family of instruments, and includes updated norms and scale revisions. Included within the revisions on the MMPI-3 are changes to several of the well-validated MMPI-2-RF over-reportingContinue reading “MMPI-3 Over-reporting Scales: A Simulation Study of PTSD, mild TBI, and co-morbid Presentation”

New Paper Alert! Service era is a huge part of how military/Veterans identify themselves, and it varies during their wartime and homecoming experiences. When it comes to psychological assessment, the question is do these variations in experience become important considerations to ensure culturally competent and responsible assessment practices. This has been investigated a little, butContinue reading “Service Era – Does it Matter for Assessment?”