Course Details
| Course Title | AAFP Workshop: Conducting Police Suitability Evaluations Using the MMPI-3 and MPQ |
| Date |
1/24/2025
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| Provider | American Academy of Forensic Psychology |
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https://aafpforensic.org/
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| Location | Seattle |
| Credit Hours | 7 |
| Instructor(s) | David M. Corey, PhD, ABPP |
| Method of Instruction | Workshop/Seminar |
| Approving Agency | ABPP |
| Course Syllabus |
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Course Description
This workshop will begin with a brief review of best practices in preemployment suitability evaluations of police candidates and the legal, ethical, and empirical foundations that inform them. Participants will then learn how to make evidence-based suitability determinations using a 5-step data integration model applied to redacted, real-life case materials that include the MMPI-3 Police Candidate Interpretive Report (PCIR; Corey & Ben-Porath, 2022), the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ) Police Preemployment Interpretive Report (PPIR; Corey, Sellbom, & Ben-Porath, 2023), and findings from collateral background information, self- reported history, and clinical interview. Although the focus of the workshop is on law enforcement suitability evaluations, the content is applicable to the evaluation of candidates for other public safety positions, including correctional officers, emergency communication dispatchers, and firefighters/paramedics.
Course Objectives
Participants attending this workshop will be able to: <span style="text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: black;">1.
<span style="text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align);"> <span style="text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: black;">Explain the importance of the criterion standard in assessing the psychological suitability of police candidates; <span style="text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: black;">2.<span style="text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align);"> <span style="text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: black;">Describe how a police applicant’s race, gender, and other protected demographic statuses can still be appropriately considered despite U.S. law prohibiting their use to adjust test scores in preemployment testing; <span style="text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: black;">3.<span style="text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align);"> <span style="text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: black;">Describe a rational strategy for interpreting underreporting scales; <span style="text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: black;">4.<span style="text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align);"> <span style="text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: black;">Identify the benefits of using an explicit model for integrating disparate sources of data in a suitability evaluation; <span style="text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: black;">5.<span style="text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align);"> <span style="text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: black;">List the five steps in the data integration model introduced in the workshop; <span style="text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: black;">6.<span style="text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align);"> <span style="text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: black;">Describe the structure and rationale for the MMPI-3 Police Candidate Interpretive Report and the MPQ Police Preemployment Interpretive Report; <span style="text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: black;">7.<span style="text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align);"> <span style="text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: black;">Explain how evidence-based findings from the MMPI-3 and MPQ can be integrated with information from the background investigation, self-reported history, and clinical interview to reach a suitability determination.