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I’m excited to share with you that the SPA Board has been hard at work developing a new Strategic Framework for 2022! This new framework will update and replace the Strategic Plan of 2018-2021. How Did We Develop this New Strategic Framework? The SPA Board met for 3 days (October 9th to... Continue Reading
Society for Personality Assessment (SPA) Members reflect on their Graduate Student to Early-Career Professional Journeys Continue Reading
The Standards of Accreditation for Health Service Psychology, Master’s Degree Programs were approved by the APA Council of Representatives in February of 2021. Following this approval, APA’s Commission on Accreditation began developing accompanying Implementation Regulations (IRs). IRs... Continue Reading
On September 8, 2021, SPA’s new blog went live on the new SPA website! Please keep your eye on our blog to hear about regular SPA updates plus information and resources shared by Joni Mihura in The President’s Corner. We also want to hear from you. Currently, The President’s... Continue Reading
ASSESSMENT CE SERIES: APA DIV 12 SECTION IX ASSESSMENT The first two webinars of this 6-part series have been presented live and the next webinar “A multimethod approach to psychological assessment” with Robert A. Bornstein is October 8, 2021, at 12:00PM EST / 4:00pm GMT. Read more... Continue Reading
One of my goals during the 2 years of my presidency is to provide regular updates and news that may be of interest to personality assessors related to practice, research, teaching, advocacy, and diversity and social inclusion. INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CONVENTION ANNOUNCEMENT: METASCIENCE The... Continue Reading
I am honored to be starting my 2-year service as the 2021-2023 President of the Society for Personality Assessment (SPA). For those of you who voted for me, I appreciate the trust you have placed in me. I hope I can meet your expectations. The past two years have been challenging for people,... Continue Reading
Welcome to our new website! We have a brand new look and updated technology in an effort to better serve all our members. We hope that you'll enjoy it as much as we do. In order to get the most out of your member experience, you will need to create a new login. Your previous username and password... Continue Reading
Dr. Joseph Masling, a pioneering researcher in Freudian psychology who taught at the University at Buffalo for more than half a century, also indulged an eclectic range of interests. He played classical violin and listened only to classical music with a fierce antipathy toward anything composed... Continue Reading
Dr. Lilienfeld was born and raised in New York City. He received his B.A. in Psychology from Cornell University in 1982 and his Ph.D. in Psychology (Clinical) from the University of Minnesota in 1990. He completed his clinical internship at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Pittsburgh,... Continue Reading
Our dear friend and colleague Dr. Bruce L. Smith passed away September 16, 2020. Born in San Francisco, CA in 1947, Bruce graduated cum laudefrom the University of California, Berkeley in Psychology in 1968 and went on to pursue both his masters and Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard... Continue Reading
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” -Martin Luther King Jr. The anti-Black racism that has shown itself in the... Continue Reading
