Course Details

Course Title	Using the MMPI-2-RF and CPI-434 in Peace Officer Candidate Screening
Date	4/24/2017
Provider	Mindset Continuing Education
Phone	(916) 488-6463
Email	info@mindsetce.com
Website	www.MindsetCE.com
Location	Sacramento
Credit Hours	14
Instructor(s)	Yossef S. Ben-Porath, Ph.D., David Corey, Ph.D. ABPP, and Mike Roberts, Ph.D., ABPP
Method of Instruction	Workshop/Seminar
Approving Agency	APA
Course Syllabus

Course Description

This comprehensive two-day, 14 Credit Hour workshop is designed for licensed psychologists that take part in CDCR and CalHR’s preemployment screening process. It is designed to provide POST approved psychologists with the background and tools necessary in using and integrating the MMPI-2-RF and CPI in the assessment of candidates applying for peace officer and public safety positions. The first day of workshop will begin Dr. Corey and Ben-Porath providing an overview of the MMPI-2-RF, a discussion of special considerations when using the test in personnel screening context and an overview of research findings that are available to guide use of the test in this setting. The end of the first day and the beginning of the second day will involve Dr. Mike Roberts providing an overview of the CPI-434 and how to integrate results from the CPI selection report with other data sources in preemployment evaluations of peace officer candidates. A series of cases will be discussed to illustrate the interpretation of MMPI-2-RF and CPI findings of peace officer and correctional officer candidates and and how the CPI and MMPI-2-RF can be integrated into the preemployment selection process to help clinicians in their determination of applicant’s suitability.

Course Objectives

<ul><li>Describe the 51 scales of the MMPI-2-RF.</li><li>Identify assessment targets when using the MMPI-2-RF to assess peace officer candidates.</li><li>Apply adjustments to traditional clinical cutoffs when using the MMPI-2-RF to assess peace officer candidates.</li><li>Incorporate MMPI-2-RF research findings when using the MMPI-2-RF to assess peace officer candidates.</li><li>Consider the impact of under-reporting when using the MMPI-2-RF to assess peace officer candidates.</li><li>Incorporate MMPI-2-RF findings in assessments of police officer candidates.</li><li>Rely on the MMPI-2-RF Police Candidate Interpretive Report when assessing law enforcement candidates.</li><li>Incorporate comparison group data when assessing correction officer candidates.</li><li>Integrate MMPI-2-RF with other data sources in preemployment evaluations of peace officer candidates.</li><li>Discuss the primary “folk” scales of the CPI and the differences between T scores created by using Community Norms versus T scores produced by using Incumbent, and Applicant norms.</li><li>Identify how the CPI scales “map” onto the POST screening dimensions used to assess peace officer candidate suitability.</li><li>Apply adjustments to traditional interpretive scale cutoffs when using the CPI report to assess peace officer candidates.</li><li>Consider the impact of under-reporting when using the CPI to assess peace officer candidates.</li><li>Incorporate corrections officer comparison group provided by the JR&A CPI report when assessing correction officer candidates.</li><li>Integrate results from the CPI selection report with other data sources in preemployment evaluations of peace officer candidates.</li></ul> <o:p></o:p>