Course Details
| Course Title | JRA Conference 2025 |
| Date |
10/17/2025
|
| Provider | Johnson, Roberts, and Associates |
| Phone | 408-356-9696 |
| Email | office@jra-assessment.com |
| Website |
www.jra-assessment.com
|
| Location | Denver, CO and Online |
| Credit Hours | 7 |
| Instructor(s) | Ryan Roberts, JD, PhD, ABPP, Michael Bricker, PhD, Nameeta Sahni, PsyD, Cerise Vablais, MBA, PhD, ABPP, Jeni McCutcheon, PsyD, MSCP, ABPP, Jocelyn Roland, PhD, ABPP, Maria Galmarini, PsyD, ABPP, Matt Guller, PhD, ABPP, Casey Stewart, PhD, ABPP |
| Method of Instruction | Lecture |
| Approving Agency | APA |
| Course Syllabus |
2025-JRA Conference Agenda.pdf
|
Course Description
Emerging topics and police and public safety psychology
Course Objectives
New Challenges in Preemployment Psychological Screening:
Working with agency HR to address legal challenges
Ryan Roberts, JD, PhD, ABPP, Michael Bricker, PhD, Nameeta Sahni, PsyD, Cerise Vablais, MBA, PhD, ABPP
- Compare state laws regulating the disclosure of preemployment psychological screening reports to public safety applicants.
- Explain how the high-stakes nature of a police officer's job makes the "job-related" scope of a preemployment evaluation far broader and more intrusive than for almost any other civilian position.
Detecting Sexual Predators and Public Safety Preemployment Evaluations
Nameeta Sahni, PsyD
- Identify some of the generational shifts in attitudes around sex and sexuality given the average age of our typical LE applicant.
- Identify that non-normative sex practices are part of a continuum in human sexuality that may not constitute deviant behavior.
- Identify several POST-related domains/dimensions that are relevant to the evaluation of a candidate’s sexual attitudes, behaviors and interests, when relevant and applicable.
- Identify why use of available sex offender tools/instruments are not appropriate in pre-employment evaluations.
- Identify the importance of collaboration with your Agency and/or staff, as well as the potential cost of careless work.
Update on PAI-2 Development and Public Safety Norm Collection
Ryan Roberts, JD, PhD, ABPP
- Explain how modifying PAI item phrasing improved the variability of applicant responses.
Relational Resilience: Navigating Change Without Compromising Integrity in Police and Public Safety Psychological Evaluations
Jeni McCutcheon, PsyD, MSCP, ABPP, Jocelyn Roland, PhD, ABPP, Ryan Roberts, JD, PhD, ABPP, Maria Galmarini, PsyD, ABPP, and Nameeta Sahni, PsyD
- Identify several challenges in the changing world of Public Safety Psychological Assessments.
- Explain POST guidance regarding the review of collateral mental health records.
- Identify ethical and professional dilemmas that commonly arise when requesting collateral VA mental health records.
- Describe approaches to minimize legal and professional liability in public safety assessments when collateral mental health records are at issue.
Cousins or Twins? Equivalency of Paper-Pencil and Online Administration of the COPS-R and PAI
Matt Guller, PhD, ABPP
- Describe reliability in psychological testing.
- Explain how test-retest reliability may be affected in a public safety pre-employment screening setting.
- Describe the state of current research in equivalency of online versus paper-pencil administration of psychological testing.
- Describe the statistical relationship between online administered test scores and those obtained through paper-pencil administration for the COPS-R and PAI.
The Promise and Perils of Artificial Intelligence in Public Safety Psychological Assessment
Ryan Roberts, JD, PhD, ABPP and <span style="font-size: calc(var(--font-size-regular) + var(--ratio)); text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align);">Jeni McCutcheon, PsyD, MSCP, ABPP
- Describe the APA's guidance on use of artificial intelligence in psychological assessments.
- List two ways using artificial intelligence in public safety preemployment evaluations may pose both a legal and ethical risk.
- Explain how artificial intelligence can be used in a HIPAA-complaint manner.
An Investigation of the Convergent Validity of Measures of Implicit and Explicit Bias and the MMPI-3 and CPI Among Police Candidates
Casey Stewart, PhD, ABPP
- List two correlates of measures of explicit bias and the CPI.
- List two correlates of implicit bias and the CPI.
- Explain how the associations between psychological testing and bias (both implicit and explicit) differ between the CPI and MMPI.