SPA Mall - Tapes CDs and DVDs From Past Annual Meetings

If you are interested in purchasing either tapes CDs or DVDs of some of the sessions at past SPA Annual Meetings, click on the appropriate link below, download the order form, complete and mail it to Gene Nebel, who does all of our taping at the Annual Meetings.

  2009 Tape Order Form
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  2008 Tape Order Form
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  2007 CD Order Form
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  2006 Tape Order Form
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  2005 Tape Order Form
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Master Lecture I, March 9, 2007: in memory of John E. Exner, Ph.D.
Roads to Enriching Rorschach Theory, Research, and Practice
Irving B. Weiner, Ph.D., University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Master Lecture II, March 9, 2007: in memory of Paul M. Lerner, Ed.D.
A Boston Yankee: Paul M. Lerner and the “Heart” of Assessment
Bruce L. Smith, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, CA

 

Master Lecture I, March 27, 2008: Heisenberg, Kandinsky, and the Heteromethod Convergence Problem: Lessons from Within and Beyond Psychology
Robert F. Bornstein, Ph.D., Adelphi University, Garden City, NY

This session explores common themes and challenges in 20th century psychology, physics, and art, with the goal of understanding how these themes and challenges provide a framework for interpreting personality test results. We begin with a discussion of Heisenberg’s Observer Effect, Kandinsky’s perspective on nonrepresentation art, and Rorschach’s classic Psychodiagnostik, noting overlapping assumptions and implications of these three phenomena. With this material as context we explore in detail the psychological processes that occur as patients complete self-report and free-response personality tests, using research in this area—and parallel writings in physics and art—to describe a process based model of test score integration.

Master Lecture II, March 28, 2008: “The five things you learn about assessment when you go to heaven”
Gary Groth-Marnat, Ph.D., Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA

This one-hour presentation will focus on the future of personality assessment by highlighting five crucial future goals of assessment. These include new trends in report writing, optimizing assessment and treatment planning, visions of a revised Rorschach, how acturial predictions can reach prime time, and high tech future assessment. A case will be used to illustrate how the above trends can be incorporated into an assessment.

 

Master Lecture I, March 5, 2009: Detecting Malingering on Personality Tests: Impossible Dream or Glorious Quest
John R. Graham, Ph.D., Kent State University, Kent, OH

This presentation will inform attendees of important issues involved in trying to detect malingering on personality tests, using the MMPI as an example.

Master Lecture II, March 6, 2009: Five-Factor Model Assessment of Personality Disorder
Thomas A. Widiger, Ph.D., University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

This session will describe how personality disorders would be assessed by the five-factor model of general personality structure. A four-step procedure for the diagnosis of personality disorder will be presented. Issues and concerns with respect to the five-factor model as an alternative to the DSM-IV personality disorder nomenclature will be discussed.


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