Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-3

Audience

This learning track is best suited for individuals who conduct preemployment evaluations of public safety candidates.  

Course Description

This learning track focuses on using the MMPI-3 Public Safety Candidate Interpretive Reports (PSCIRs) in combination with measures of normal personality, collateral/background information, and clinical interview findings to determine a candidate’s psychological suitability for public safety work. Additional topics will include legal considerations and best practices. 

Learning Outcomes

After completing this session, participants will be able to:

• Discuss legal considerations in preemployment psychological evaluations.
• Describe procedures and best practices in preemployment psychological evaluations of public safety candidates. 
• Discuss the research literature available to guide use of the MMPI-3 in preemployment psychological evaluations. 
• Apply a model (Spilberg & Corey, 2022) for integrating data from multiple data sources, including information from written tests, personal history, and clinical interview, when conducting preemployment evaluations of public safety candidates.
• Use MMPI-3 PSCIR item-level information to assess for the impact of intentional deception on underreporting.
• Extract comparison group findings and job-relevant correlates from the PSCIRs to make evidence-based suitability determinations and prepare written reports.

Prerequisites

• To be eligible to purchase this content, individuals must be a registered Psychologist.
• It is assumed that attendees have had graduate-level training in psychological testing and assessment.  
• It is recommended that users have completed the MMPI 3 Introductory module training.