Psychological screening of police officer candidates occurs in the vast majority of jurisdictions across North America, and in nearly all agencies serving communities of 25,000 or more residents. How do I see the PCIR most benefiting today’s police forces? Finally, Auke Tellegen and Yossef Ben-Porath had established a commitment to interpretive source transparency in their publication of the MMPI-2-RF Clinical Settings Interpretive Report, which made the PCIR a natural extension of that legacy. Third, the accumulating empirical evidence supporting both the psychometric advantages and validity of the MMPI-2-RF made it a compelling choice for the PCIR. Second, because the MMPI-2-RF derives from a subset of the MMPI-2 items, it was possible for us to conduct longitudinal outcome studies of police candidates who had taken either the MMPI-2-RF or the MMPI-2, which gave us immediate access to a much larger pool of subjects.
What advantages did the MMPI-2-RF offer as the instrument from which the PCIR was derived?įirst, the MMPI-2-RF’s hierarchical organizing structure overlays nicely onto the common psychological screening criteria for police applicants, with their shared focus on personality and psychopathology.
Test users could certainly access that information on their own through a careful analysis of the published literature, but the PCIR simplifies and standardizes that task. The individual psychologist is responsible for assessing a candidate’s suitability for police work based on consideration of test scores, personal history and other collateral information, and clinical observations, but we wanted to facilitate that task by providing easy access to the evidence-based meaning of a candidate’s MMPI-2-RF scores. Our primary goal was to provide users of the MMPI-2-RF with a useful bridge between the science and practice of police candidate screening. What was your primary goal in developing the PCIR? It’s evidence based (all correlate-based interpretations derive from published studies), transparent (the source for every interpretive statement is identified in the report), and relevant (all interpretive statements pertain to behaviors and performance domains that are meaningful in police work). What are the three most important things that people should know about the MMPI-2-RF Police Candidate Interpretive Report (PCIR)? Since 1980, my primary area of practice has been in the assessment-both preemployment and fitness-for-duty-of police and public safety personnel. I continued to pursue this area of study in graduate school and conducted my doctoral dissertation research on the use of the MMPI in predicting counterproductive behavior in police officers. My undergraduate adviser was an early pioneer in police psychology and I had the good fortune of becoming his research assistant. How did you first get involved in the public safety sector? shares details about his background in police psychology and the development of this brand new report: MMPI-2-RF Police Candidate Interpretive Report co-author David Corey, Ph.D.
The University of Minnesota Press is pleased to announce the publication of the MMPI-2-RF Police Candidate Interpretive Report!įor additional information or to order the PCIR, visit our distributor, Pearson Assessments.
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