MMPI-2™, MMPI-2-RF™, & MMPI-A™ Workshops & Symposia

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The MMPI-2/MMPI-2-RF/MMPI-A Workshop & Symposia program, sponsored by Kent State University Department of Psychology, and coordinated
by the University of Minnesota Press, regularly conducts workshops and an annual symposium on recent research on the MMPI-2 and MMPI-A.

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WORKSHOP PRESENTERS

Paul A. Arbisi, Ph.D., ABAP., Mpls. VA Medical Center
Dr. Paul A. Arbisi is a staff clinical psychologist at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1990. Dr. Arbisi consults with inpatient and outpatient psychiatric teams and conducts disability evaluations for veterans seeking benefits for PTSD. Dr. Arbisi has published extensively on detecting malingering with the MMPI-2 and using the MMPI-2 in psychiatric settings. He has a private practice specializing in disability evaluations and fitness for duty examinations.

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Robert P. Archer, Ph.D., ABPP (CL), Eastern Virginia Medical School
Dr. Robert P. Archer is the Frank Harrell Redwood Distinguished Professor and Director of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, at the Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia. Dr. Archer is the author of numerous books, articles and book chapters related to psychological assessment. He is also author of the texts, Using the MMPI with Adolescents, and MMPI-A: Assessing Adolescent Psychopathology (3rd edition) (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1987; 2005), and Forensic Uses of Clinical Assessment Instruments (2006), and co-author of the MMPI-A Casebook (PAR, 1994). Dr. Archer served on the advisory committee to the University of Minnesota Press for the development of the MMPI-A and is a co-author of the MMPI-A manual. He is currently working on a series of research projects related to the MMPI-2 and the MMPI-A. Dr. Archer served as the Founding Editor of Assessment, a quarterly journal that began publication in March 1994, and was an Associate Editor for the Journal of Personality Assessment. He is an Executive Board member and Diplomate of the American Board of Assessment Psychology.

R. Michael Bagby, Ph.D., University of Toronto
Dr. R. Michael Bagby is a Senior Psychologist and Director of the Clinical Research Department at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, Canada. He is also Director of the Psychological Assessment Service at CAMH. He is a Full Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. Dr. Bagby's primary clinical and research interests are response bias and self-report measures of personality and psychopathology, and the relation between personality and depression. He has published more than 200 articles and is the co-author (with Richard Rogers) of the widely used Structured Interview for Reported Symptoms (SIRS). He is consulting editor for several personality and assessment journals, including European Journal of Personality, Psychological Assessment and Journal of Personality Assessment and is an associate editor of the journal Assessment. He has a private practice in Toronto and specializes in disability evaluations.
Yossef S. Ben-Porath, Ph.D., Kent State University
Dr. Ben-Porath is a Professor of Psychology at Kent State University. He received his doctoral training at the University of Minnesota and has been involved extensively in MMPI-2 research for the past 22 years. He is a coauthor of test manuals and numerous books, book chapters, and articles on the MMPI-2 test. Dr. Ben-Porath is a co-developer of several MMPI-2 scales including VRIN, TRIN, and FP , the Content Scales, the PSY-5 Scales, and the RC Scales. He is editor of the journal Assessment, and a member of the editorial board of the other major assessment journals. His clinical practice involves consultation to agencies regarding use of the MMPI-2 in personnel screening, and conducting criminal court-ordered forensic psychological evaluations. Dr. Ben-Porath is a co-author of the MMPI-2-RF (Restructured Form).
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Stephen E. Finn , Ph.D., Center for Therapeutic Assessment
Dr. Stephen E. Finn is the founder of the Center for Therapeutic Assessment in Austin, TX, a group of psychologists specializing in the integration of psychological assessment and psychotherapy. Dr. Finn received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 1984 from the University of Minnesota.  He currently is an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, and is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 12) and of the Society for Personality Assessment, for which he served as President in 2002-3.  Dr. Finn is the author of A Manual for Using the MMPI-2 as a Therapeutic Intervention, published in 1996 by the University of Minnesota Press, and of  In Our Clients' Shoes:  Theory and Techniques of Therapeutic Assessment, published in 2007 by Erlbaum. Dr. Finn frequently lectures around the world on topics related to assessment.
John R. Graham, Ph.D., Kent State University
Dr. John R. Graham is Professor of Psychology at Kent State University. He is one of the authors of the MMPI-2 and the MMPI-A. He has been a substantial contributor to the MMPI research literature and is author of a widely used text, MMPI-2: Assessing Personality and Psychopathology, published by Oxford University Press. In addition to his University responsibilities, he consults with attorneys concerning the use of the MMPI-2 in forensic settings. He has offered MMPI workshops nationally and internationally.
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Martin Sellbom, Ph.D., University of Alabama
Dr. Sellbom is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at The University of Alabama. He received his Ph.D. from Kent State University, completed his APA-accredited internship at the Centre for Addition and Mental Health in Toronto, Ontario, and spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow at Kent State University and Psycho-Diagnostic Clinic in Akron, Ohio. Dr. Sellbom’s research focuses on the integration of personality and psychopathology, psychopathy, personality assessment with the MMPI-2 and MMPI-2-RF, and response bias on assessment instruments. His work has been featured in over 40 scholarly publications and he has won several awards, including the Society for Personality Assessment’s Samuel and Anne Beck Award for early career achievement. Dr. Sellbom serves on the editorial boards of Psychological Assessment, Journal of Personality Assessment, and Assessment as well as a regular ad hoc reviewer for numerous other journals. For his clinical practice, he specializes in court-ordered forensic psychological evaluation.
Dr. Kathleen P. Stafford, Ph.D., ABPP (Forensic), Cleveland VA Medical Center
Dr. Stafford  is a staff clinical psychologist and member of the Clinical Training Committee at the Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Kent State University. Her teaching, publications and practice focus on psychological assessment, forensic issues, treatment of substance abuse and mental disorder, and ethical issues in the practice of clinical and forensic psychology. She currently serves on the American Board of Forensic Psychology Examination Faculty, and she has served as president of the American Board of Forensic Psychology and as chair of the American Psychological Association Ethics Committee.
Auke Tellegen, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Dr. Auke Tellegen received a Ph.D. in personality psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1962 and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in clinical psychology at the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1963. He was a professor in the Department of Psychology from 1968 to 1999, when he became Professor Emeritus. He has published on the assessment of mood, personality, hypnotic responsiveness, and psychopathology.  He is author of the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ), a broadband personality inventory; co-author of the MMPI-2, MMPI-A, and MMPI-2-RF (Restructured Form); and author of the MMPI-2 Restructured Clinical (RC) Scales.
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Nathan C. Weed, Ph.D., Central Michigan University
Dr. Nathan Weed is Professor of Psychology at Central Michigan University, where he teaches assessment of cognitive abilities and assessment of personality for its APA-accredited Ph.D. program in clinical psychology and directs a specialty training clinic devoted to psychological assessment. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1992, where he studied with Jim Butcher and Auke Tellegen during the restandardization of the MMPI.  Dr. Weed is co-author of articles describing the development of substance abuse scales for the MMPI-A and the MMPI-2, and has been involved in a variety of lines of MMPI-2 validation research.  A current line of research investigates the relative merits of the MMPI-2 and MMPI-2-RF substance abuse scales.