DEISJ Resources

2023 | 2022 | 2021

2023

Webinars | Presentations | Research Grant Winners

Webinars 

SPA Convention Presentations

  • Therapeutic Assessment with Children: A Brief Intervention to Address the Current Mental Health Crisis in Children and Families 
  • Assessing Multicultural Bipolar Disorder: Challenges, Implications, and Solutions
  • Culturally Responsive Personality Assessment 
  • Cultural Mistrust and Psychological Assessment: A Nuance Look at Paranoia Scores
  • Psychological Assessment of Racial and Cultural Trauma 
  • SPAGS Presents: From Supervision to Classrooms: Where Do We Go When Conversations on Diversity go Awry? 
  • Advocacy within Psychological Assessment: Addressing Client Concerns and Challenging Beliefs of Clinicians and Systems 
  • From Assessment Coursework to Clinical Work: The Intricacies of Graduate Assessment Training 
  • Use of Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) with Diverse Populations: Exploring Trainee Psychologists' Experiences 
  • Interpersonal Valence of Ethnocultural Empathy
  • Assessing Personality Pathology 
  • Integrating Multicultural Competencies and Social Justice into Assessment through Use of the Wright-Constantine Structural Cultural Interview 
  • You're Invalid? A Case Discussion Highlighting the Complications When Diversity, Identity, Cognitive Decompensation, and Validity Measures Collide 
  • Disambiguating the "Right Voice" from the "White Voice" When Teaching Report Writing
  • Predictive Invariance of a Measure of Perfectionism Across Race When Predicting Mistake Rumination 
  • Intersecting Identities: Masculine Gender Norm Values and MMPI-3 Pathology Endorsement 
  • Measurement Invariance Across Sexual and Gender Identity for the Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale 

Research Grant Winners 

Use of Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) with Diverse Populations: Exploring Trainee Psychologists' Experience

Casey Lee | Duquesne University 

2022 

Presentations | Poster Award Winner | Dissertation Grant Winners 

SPA Convention Presentations

The Elephant in the Room: Whiteness in Psychology and Law 

Antoinette Kavanaugh | Feinberg School of Medicine

"Me entiendes?": The Complexity of Assessing Bilingual Youth with Trauma 

  • Assessing the Functions of Language: Language as a Tool to Create New Connections and to Distance from the Past | Catherine Anicama, PhD 
  • Regulating with Language: Using Bilingual Therapeutic Collaborative Assessment to Support a Parent-Child Relationship | Vanessa Shafa, PhD 

Utilization of a Culturally Focused Semi-Structured Interview (WCSCI) in Clinical Assessment Training: Input from Trainees , Supervisors, and Clients 

  • The Wright-Constantine Structured Interview (WCSCI) | A. Jordan Wright, PhD
  • Using a Culturally Focused Interview in Assessment Training: Client Feedback and Lessons Learned | Emily Crew & Manizeh Raza 

Using Network Analysis to Understand Antisocial and Borderline Personality Disorder Across Race/Ethnicity in a Justice-Involved Sample 

Sarah Hernandez | Sam Houston State University 

Jared Ruchensky | Sam Houston State University 

SPAGS Presents- Blended Families: Cultivating a Culturally Inclusive Approach to Supervision and Mentorship 

JoAnna Molina | 

Callie Jowers | 

Intergrated Papers: Varied Papers- International & Multi-Ethnic Studies 

  • Exploring Potential Ethnic Bias among MMPI-3 Scales in Assessing Personality Psychopathology 
    • Nicole Shumaker | Sam Houston State University 
    • Tessa Long | Sam Houston State University 
    • Andy Torres | The University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley 
    • Frances Morales | The University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley 
    • Alfonso Mercado | The University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley 
    • Ryan Marek | Sam Houston State University 
    • Jaime Anderson | Sam Houston State University 
  • Measurement Invariance of the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire across China, Hong Kong, and the United States 
    • Leila Z. Wu | Pennsylvania State University 
    • Natalia Van Doren | Pennsylvania State University 
    • Jose A. Soto | Pennsylvania State University 
  • Multi-National Evaluation of the Measurement Invariance of the Level of Personality Functioning Scale - Brief Form 2.0: Comparison of Student and Community Samples Across Seven Countries 
    • Adam Natoli | Sam Houston State University 
    • Bo Bach | Slagelse Psychiatric Hospital 
    • Yann Le Corff | Université de Sherbrooke 
    • Marianne Cottin Arredonde | Universidad de Chile 
    • Emanuela S. Gritti | Università di Pardova 
    • Joost Hutsebaut | De Viersprong National Institute of Personality Disorders 
    • Nishtha Lamba | Middlesex University Dubai 
    • Johannes Zimmermann | Universität Kassel 
  • Translation, Adoption and Validation of the LPFS-BF 2.0 and PID5BF+ M for Assessing PD Criterion A and B in Spanish Speaking Chilean Population 
    • Marianne Cottin | Universidad Finis Terrae 
    • Cristobal Hernández | Universidad Adolfo Ibañez 
    • Antonia Muzard | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 
    • Alex Behn | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 

Integrated Papers: Varied Papers: Personality Disorders in Sexual Minoritiesm and Psychopathy/Dark Triad 

  • Psychopathy Testing Bias in Sexual Orientation Minorities: A Slope-Intecept Bias Approach 
    • Kelci C. Davis | Sam Houston State University 
    • Jaime Anderson | Sam Houston State University 

Dependency and Detachment Across Culture and Context: Contrasting Relationship Profile Test Score in Taiwanese and American Participants 

Ting-Yun Tseng | Adelphi University 

Robert F. Bornstein | Adelphi University 

Multi-Method and Contextual, Diversity-Sensitive Methods in Assessment 

A. Jordan Wright | New York University 

Hadas Pade | Alliant International University - San Francisco 

Following Ethical Standards, Testing Standards, and Practice Guidelines in Psychological Testing in a Diverse Cultural World 

Lisa Suzuki | New York University 

Radhika Krishnamurthy | Florida Institute of Technology 

A. Jordan Wright | New York University 

Diversity Poster Award Winners 

Dependency and Detachment Across Culture and Context: Contrasting Relationship Profile Test Scores in Taiwanese and American Participants 

Ting-Yun Tseng | Adelphi University 

Robert F. Bornstein | Adelphi University 

Dissertation Grant Winners 

An Examination of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-3 (MMPI-3) Profiles of International Saudi Arabian College Students 

Emily Leonard | Florida Institute of Technology 

The Influence of Native Language on Thematic Apperception Test Assessment of Defenses in International Spanish-Speaking College Students

Ilena Perez-Palen | Florida Institute of Technology 

Personality, Acculturation, and Religious Beliefs and Practices: A Comparative Study of Characteristics Associated to Barriers to Seeking Mental Health Services Among Hmong Americas and Non-Hmong Populations 

Ethan Xiong | University of Detroit Mercy  

2021 

Presentations | Dissertation Grant Winners | Student Research Grant Winners

SPA Convention Presentations 

  • Shifting Cultural Lenses in Psychological Assessment: Integrating both Clinical and Statistical Approaches 
  • Assessment of Diverse and Minority Populations: Considerations in Personality Assessment Training 
  • English Language Learners, Monolingualism, and Bilingualism in Assessment Graduate Training 
    • English Speaking Student Working with Bilingual Client 
    • Bilingual Student Working with English Speaking Client 
    • Bilingual Student Working with Bilingual Client 
  • A Psychometric Comparison of the US Spanish and English MMPI-3 
  • Assessment Supervision within a Multicultural Context: Fostering Thinking Space for Supervisees and Supervisors

Dissertation Grant Winner

Assessing LGBTQ+ Community Connectedness, Positive Identity, and Mental Health Outcomes in Sexual Minority Emerging Adults 

Alana Fondren | University of North Texas 

Student Research Grant Winners

Psychopathy Testing Bias in Sexual Orientation Minorities: A Slope-Intercept Bias Approach

Kelci Davis | Sam Houston State University 

Impact of Culture on Interpersonal Dependency Scored: A Comparison of Second-Generation Taiwanese Immigrants and American Adults

Tingyun Tseng | Adelphi University