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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.

  2011 CD Order Form
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  2010 CD Order Form
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  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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Presidential Address, March 10, 2011: The Proficient Personality Assessor, Robert E. Erard, PhD, President, SPA Board of Trustees

• 2011 Order Form @ $10.00 per set

 

Master Lecture I: Assessment of Pretend Play: Why it is Important Friday, March 11, 2011, Sandra Russ, PhD, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

This session will provide an overview of definitions of pretend play; key cognitive and affective processes in pretend play; and correlates of pretend play in child development. The Affect in Play Scale (APS) and its’ various versions will be presented. A video will be shown to provide examples. Psychometric properties of the measure will be discussed. Research supporting the validity of the APS will be presented. The role of pretend play assessment in treatment planning and evaluation of treatment effectiveness will be discussed.

Master Lecture II: Adolescent Assessment: Are We Good Enough? Friday, March 11, 2011, Nancy Kaser-Boyd, PhD, Keck School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

This lecture will orient the audience to the statistics on juvenile crime and important current topics such as juveniles and sentences of life without parole. It will highlight the importance of competent psychological assessment of juveniles. Standards for psycho-legal evaluations of juveniles will be presented on topics such as understanding Miranda Warnings, false confessions and suggestibility, competence to stand trial, maturity, and waivers to adult court. Court cases pertinent to these topics will be reviewed with a focus on legal standards. Designing test batteries to assess focused issues such as competence or maturity will be presented. Suggestions for future development of assessment methods will be made.

• 2011 Order Form @ $22.00 per set

 

Presidential Address, March 25, 2010: How to Cook without a Book (and how not to), Robert E. Erard, PhD, President, SPA Board of Trustees

• 2010 Order Form @ $10.00

 

Master Lecture I, March 25, 2010: The Assessment of Trauma-Related Symptomatology, John N. Briere, PhD, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

The presenter will describe the increasing role of trauma-specific psychological tests in the identification and treatment of those exposed to overwhelmingly negative life events. Specific tests will be suggested for the major domains of trauma-related symptomatology. Finally, the presenter will introduce the upcoming new edition of the Trauma Symptom Inventory (the TSI-2), which has undergone significant revision, added subscales, and a new approach to negative bias assessment.

Master Lecture II, March 26, 2010: Giving Personality Assessment Away, S. Philip Erdberg, PhD, Corte Madera, CA

This master lecture suggests that assessment psychologists can share their expertise with professionals in a variety of human service occupations by teaching them to do assessment and then to utilize ongoing consultation.  Two examples – one from law enforcement and one from school psychology – illustrate this approach.  The lecture then discusses administrative and ethical issues surrounding this approach.

• 2010 Order Form @ $22.00 per set

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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.

• 2009 Order Form @ $20.00 per set

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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.

• 2008 Order Form @ $20.00 per set

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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

• 2007 Order Form @ $22.00 per set