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About a year and a half ago I launched (and subsequently published) a pilot project with Drs. Adam Schmidt and Matt Cribbet to look at some trends in training for psychological assessment by asking trainees themselves about their experiences. This week, the first paper from the large scale study that followed-up on that pilot basedContinue reading “Training in Assessment: Current State and Future Directions”

Nicole recently presented research summarizing a paper we have out for review examining the utility of the MMPI-2-RF and MMPI-3 to predict treatment use and treatment-related attitudes in a short-term longitudinal sample of individuals with moderate to severe depressive symptoms. This was presented at the 2020 MMPI symposium and the PowerPoint may be FOUND HEREContinue reading “MMPI-2-RF and MMPI-3 : Implications on treatment engagement”

This is a difficult time for our society, as well as for our ourselves, our clients, and our communities. This year has posed substantial challenges to those within the United States, as well as those around the world. Most recently, the #BlackLivesMatter movement laid bare once again the difficulties that many individuals in our department,Continue reading “Lab Diversity Statement”

Recently accepted to Spirituality in Clinical Practice. Pre-print coming soon. Effective screening and psychological assessment is critical for identifying and screening out clergy candidates which may be inappropriate for these callings, based on psychopathology, addictive behavior, emotional immaturity, personality characteristics incongruent with effective ministry, or deviant sexual interests and behaviors. Emotional deficits such as avoidance of negativeContinue reading “New Paper on the MMPI-2-RF”

Last year Brian Cole (Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology and Director of Training at the University of Kansas) and I had an article examining the ways that stigma and masculinity predict different types of treatment seeking behaviors. KU had a news release today on his work on men’s depression, which includes our PAPER [click hereContinue reading “Depression in Men, KU press release on work with collaborator Brian Cole”

The first (but not last) paper with Joe Currin was accepted yesterday in Counseling Psychology Quarterly. In this paper, we examine ECP (those graduating within the last 10 years) Counseling Psychologists who are currently employed in Tenure Track (TT) positions at the 69 doctoral training programs for Counseling Psychology (APA, 2018) across the country. GivenContinue reading “What research is normal in Tenure Track for Counseling Psychology? Now we know”

The lab didn’t win the TTU Psych Department’s lab logo contest, but we certainly did well with a strong showing coming up short to our departmental collaborator’s lab, Dr. Schmidt. There were so many super cool logos from all the labs. Dr. Schmid’ts lab design was made by our lab’s very own Liz Morger [CLICKContinue reading “Lab logo contest”

I just got out of a meeting with Dr. Schmidt yesterday talking about one of our papers on training outcomes and it occurred to me that a summary of those projects is long overdue here. So here we go – how is PATS working to help train better clinicians and inform the field about outcomeContinue reading “Updates on training research”

I’m excited to have another paper in press, this time at the Journal of Personality Assessment. This paper utilizes the same national sample I’ve previously published on to examine service era differences, provide comparison groups for specific treatment clinics, and examine trends in validity scale performance. In my new paper, we provide correlations between theContinue reading “New Paper: MMPI-2-RF correlates in the VA”

This year the lab had two papers accepted with Brittney on them. The most recent was accepted into the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology and covered her AACN presentation from this summer on use of the MMPI-2-RF to detect invalid responding in a sample of active duty army. Download the paper HERE. Recap of theContinue reading “Nice Job Brittney!”