It is time to renew your membership and advance the evidence-based practice and impact of personality assessment! This year, SPA launched our 2022-2027 Strategic Framework with the goal of becoming the indispensable resource and advocate for personality assessment internationally. It is through... Continue Reading
If you haven't noticed, SPA has been evolving over the past year. From a new website in September to a re-imagined convention in March, we are excited to announce the next piece to the puzzle, our 2022-2027 Strategic Framework, which includes our new vision, mission, values, and logo! Watch... Continue Reading
I wanted to reach out to members to introduce myself in the new role as President of SPA and provide details on a number of advancements we are making at this time. First let me say how proud I am to be a long-time member of SPA. SPA is an organization dedicated to advancing the field of... Continue Reading
Dear friends and colleagues: Greetings to everyone in whatever part of the world you are reading this. As you probably know, SPA recently had its first in-person convention since New Orleans in 2019, which was held in Chicago, March 9th to 13th. I was grateful to see friends and colleagues who... Continue Reading
Hello friends and colleagues: This past couple of years have been extremely challenging for people across the globe, and often for reasons that are not yet clear to us. I think, as humans, we will be able to look back and understand this phenomena better a few years from now. There is a... Continue Reading
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
