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Personality Assessment in Legal Contexts Webinar Series

May 2022 - September 2022 

Overview

In an effort to increase online learning for the SPA community, SPA has created a new webinar series based on many of the articles in the Journal of Personality Assessment special issue regarding Personality Assessment in Legal Contexts. This special issue addressed a major gap in the literature by providing comprehensive, credible reviews of the psychometric evidence for and legal status of some of the most commonly-used psychological and personality assessment measures used in forensic evaluations. This webinar series expands on these articles and is an opportunity to engage with some of the authors of many of the articles.

The Special Issue responds to Neal and colleagues’ (2019) call for research to improve the state of and access to knowledge about psychological assessments in legal contexts, and encourages critical thinking about forensic assessment in the spirit of improvement. These articles offer clarity about the strengths and weaknesses of a number of assessment instruments to inform psychologists’ preparation for expert testimony, lawyers’ preparation for direct and cross-examination, judges’ evidence admissibility determinations, and scholars’ future research. We assembled teams of authors with different perspectives and areas of expertise to review each tool fairly, including several adversarial collaborations. Articles on the Rorschach and R-PAS, MMPI-3, PCL-R, MCMI-IV and MACI-II, PAI and PAI-A, SIRS-2, HCR-20V3, TSI and TSI-2, and the MacCAT-CA, ECST-R, and CAST*MR are included.

As a SPA member benefit, we will be providing an opportunity to earn 1 FREE CE credit for the Introduction Overview of this webinar series. The recording is below, and click on the button to access your CEs. 

SPA Member CE Credit Access  AP-LS/Non-Member CE Credit Access

Special Issue Editors

Tess Neal, PhD | Arizona State University

Martin Sellbom, PhD | University of Otago

Corine de Ruiter, PhD | Maastricht University

Upcoming Webinars 

All trainings are listed in Eastern Time zone. Please note, webinars will be recorded and made available at a later time for those that missed or would like to rewatch the live version of the webinars. 

  • May 17 | Using the MMPI-3 in Legal Settings | 1 CE Credit
  • June 8 | The Personality Assessment Inventory in U.S. Case Law: A Survey and Examination of Relevance to Legal Proceedings | 1 CE Credit
  • June 9 | The Millon Clincal Multiaxial Inventory-IV (MCMI-IV) and Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory-II (MACI-II) in Legal Settings | 1 CE Credit
  • July 7 | Using the Personality Assessment Inventory-Adolescent in Legal Settings | 1 CE Credit
  • July 12 | The Utility of the Trauma Symptom Inventory as a Primary and Secondary Assessment Instrument for Forensic Practice Legal Settings | 1 CE Credit
  • August 16 | Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms- 2nd Edition (SIRS-2): Use and Admissibility in Forensic Mental Health
  • August 30 | Violence Risk Assessment with the HCR-20V3 in Legal Context | 1 CE Credit
  • September 19 | Combined Webinars: The MacCAT-CA and the ECST-R in Competency to Stand Trial Evaluations: A Critical Review and Practical Implications AND A Review of Standardized Instrument Use in Competency to Stand Trial Evaluations | 1 CE Credit 
  • September 21 (New date!) | Legal Admissibility of the Rorschach and R-PAS: A Review of Research, Practice, and Case Law | 1 CE Credit
  • Date TBA | Use of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised in Legal Contexts: Validity, Reliability, and Evidentiary Issues

The Society for Personality Assessment (SPA) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. SPA maintains responsibility for this program and its content. 

Pricing 

To register for any event, please login to your member or non-member profile on the SPA Website. You do NOT need to be a member to register for this webinar series. 

Member Type (1) Webinar (2) Webinars (3) Webinars (4) Webinars (5) Webinars (6) Webinars (7) Webinars (8) Webinars All (9) Webinars
Student Member $45 $80 $115 $150 $185 $220 $255 $290 $310
Early Career Member $79 $148 $217 $286 $355 $424 $493 $562 $599
Member/Fellow/Associate $99 $188 $277 $366 $455 $544 $633 $722 $749
Student Non-Member $75 $140 $205 $270 $335 $400 $465 $530 $595
Early Career Non-Member $134 $258 $382 $506 $630 $754 $878 $1002 $1126
Non-Member $174 $338 $502 $666 $830 $994 $1158 $1322 $1486

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Refund Policy 

Webinar bookings cancelled in writing more than 30 days before the event are entitled to a 50% discount. After this date there are no further refunds, though transfers to another registrant of the same member type or to an alternative webinar are available up until one week before the originally purchased event.

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