Research Updates

Just a quick update of some goings on in the lab since the summer. This is just a snapshot of some of the projects in the works at different stages.

Personality Assessment
– Another meta-analytic evaluation of the MMPI-2-RF has completed data collection and analysis is beginning this week.
-IRB submission is beginning within a neuropsych clinic for active duty military. This project will examine the discriminant capacity of MMPI-2-RF validity scales. There is no timeline for this project currently.
-IRB submission is being finalized for one Veteran sample within an outpatient posttraumatic stress disorder clinic to examine the role of clinical personality measures in the classification of PTSD. This clinic utilized the PAI and MCMI. It is anticipated that analysis will be able to begin within 1-2 months.
-Analysis of the nationally-based veteran sample is ongoing. A first manuscript from this database is being prepared currently. Some preliminary data for this project was presented at the 2017 MMPI-2-RF/MMPI-2/MMPI-A-Rf/MMPI-A conference.
-IRB submission is being prepared for a malingering study of Veterans as it relates to comorbid PTSD and mTBI. This project is projected to begin data collection in Spring 2018.
Treatment Seeking and Initiation/Engagment
-IRB has approved a data collection project on stigma of mental health and how it relates to health factors. Data collection is beginning now in conjunction with a second University.
– A manuscript examining the role of masculine identity in treatment seeking is being prepared and is anticipated for submission within 1-2 months. This is based on the poster I presented with Dr. Brian Cole at 2017’s APA.

APA Reflections

This was a great conference and a lot of ideas are still stirring around in my head from the conversations I had over the last several days. I tried to share some thoughts on twitter (@IngramPsychLab) as I went, but I think the biggest take away is the importance of moving stigma research beyond correlations with attitudes about intention to seek.

Promoting engagement in psychotherapy needs to expand to behavioral correlates for us to understand the role stigma plays. It also became really clear to me that stigma should be couched as a health disparity barrier and that research on behaviors associated with self-stigma should also expand to encapsulate health psychology and the preventable impacts that it has.  This is a very real, very evident, and very serious impact of stigma and the more we do to bring this component of it to the forefront of stigma research the more attention I hope we can generate on changing the culture around mental illness. There were lots of exciting conversations that happened surrounding next-steps for this at the conference – stay tuned!

APA

The 2017 APA conference is less than a month away and getting excited for the annual trip, this time to Washington D.C. Want to talk? Come see work posters of Dr. Ingram is part of at the conference center! Poster locations are in parentheses.

Thursday

11:00-11:50       Self-stigma, gender role conflict, and help seeking (F-24)

12:00-12:50       The Role of Hope and Stigma in Treatment Seeking (E-14)

12:00-12:50       Structural evaluation of RIASEC assessment methods (E-21)

Friday

9:00-9:50           Readiness to Change As a Treatment for Stigma (A-27)

Lab research receives AACN Award

I’m thrilled to have my meta-analysis of the MMPI-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) recognized as runner-up for the best manuscript of the year by the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology (AACN) in their 2016 student research competition. The article was published last year in the academy’s flagship journal.

Ingram, P.B., & Ternes, M. (2016). The detection of content-based invalid responding: A meta-analysis of the MMPI-2-Restructured Form’s (MMPI-2-RF) over-reporting scales. The Clinical Neuropsychology, 30, 473-496. doi: 10.1080/13854046.2016.1187769

This paper was not only the first meta-analysis of the MMPI-2-RF validity scales but also provided an analysis of some important moderators deferentially impacting the detection of feigning across the over-reporting scales. Findings highlight the importance of considering context, client, and evaluation-specific information in making clinical interpretations. There are lots of exciting ways I will be building on this moving forward; I’ll be examining interactions between moderators, further study on specific clinical presentations like PTSD and TBI, and more.

Do you want to know more or are you interested in collaborating? Send me an E-mail.