Course Details
Course Description
This 3-hour continuing education program examines the psychometric equivalence, documented benefits, and limitations of telehealth-administered preemployment psychological evaluations for peace officer candidates under California POST requirements. Participants will analyze the evidence base component by component—covering remote test administration, proctoring, clinical interviewing, and records review—and translate that analysis into defensible, standards-compliant practice. The program integrates guidance from APA telepsychology guidelines, APA Division 41 recommendations, and IACP guidelines to support evaluators in making professionally grounded modality decisions.
Course Objectives
After completing this course, participants will be able to:
Identify the components of a preemployment psychological evaluation that are differently affected by remote versus in-person delivery modality.
Describe the current stat of psychometric equivalence evidence for remote administration of the MMPI-2-RF and MMPI-3 in peace officer candidate populations.
Distinguish between the equivalence of measurement properties across administration modalities and the broader question of preemployment screening effectiveness.
Apply relevant professional guidelines - including APA telepsychology guidelines, APA Division 41 recommendations, and IACP guidelines - to evaluate the defensibility of specific remote evaluation protocols under California POST requirements.
Analyze the limitations of the current teleassessment evidence base, including gaps in instrument-specific research and the relative absence of remote clinical interview equivalence data, when main component-level decisions about remote evaluation procedures.