Using the IOP-29 in the Assessment of Disability and Impairment

The CAPDA Board of Directors is pleased to offer a series of monthly Zoom sessions titled "Truth Through Discourse", which offers open discussion on various topics of interest to psychologists, psychological associates and clinical psychology graduate students.

Scheduled from 7:30 - 8:30 pm each month, these discussions are offered free for CAPDA members and $5 for non-members for each session.


Our next session is scheduled for Wednesday November 10 on Using the IOP-29 in the Assessment of Disability and Impairment, and presented by Luciano Giromini, Donald J Viglione, & Laszlo A Erdodi

ABOUT THE SESSION
Evaluating the credibility of presented symptoms is a key component of psychological and neuropsychological assessments focused on possible disability or impairment. The Inventory of Problems-29 (IOP-29) is a useful addition to both routine clinical and high-stake forensic evaluations. The IOP-29 is a brief self-administered symptom validity test that is resistant to coaching and has superior excellent classification accuracy. The IOP-29 has been published It is available in several languages, allowing assessors to evaluate non-English speaking examinees without the involvement of translators.

This workshop will describe its development, research foundation, and how it can be integrated into existing assessment batteries to consolidate the empirical evidence used to determine the credibility of a given clinical presentation. The workshop concludes with case studies from Ontario to illustrate the benefits of using the IOP-29 in clinical and forensic settings.

NOTE: This session is open to psychologists, psychological associates and clinical psychology graduate students only. 

 ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

Luciano Giromini, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, and core faculty member for the Ph.D. program in Psychological, Anthropological and Educational Sciences of the University of Turin, Italy. He has taught psychological assessment and psychometrics at two Italian and one Californian universities, and is currently the coordinator of the Evidence-Based Psychological Assessment research team of University of Turin. He is the Assessment Section Head of the journal Psychological Injury and Law, and a consulting editor of several assessment journals, including Journal of Personality Assessment and Psychological Assessment. Luciano Giromini is also one of the authors of the Inventory of Problems (IOP-29 and IOP-M).

Donald J. Viglione, Ph.D. is a Distinguished Professor at Alliant International University in San Diego. He maintains an active practice in clinical, forensic, and high-stakes assessment, as well as supervising graduate practicum students. He has published over 100 articles and presented or co-presented approximately 70 workshops and 140 presentations around the U.S., Europe, South America, and Brazil. He teaches applied and psychometric assessment courses. He has served as the Director of the Clinical Ph.D. and Clinical Psy.D. Programs at Alliant. Donald J Viglione is also one of the authors of the Inventory of Problems (IOP-29 and IOP-M).

Laszlo A Erdodi, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Windsor and a registered Clinical Neuropsychologist in the Province of Ontario, Canada. His main research interests revolve around performance validity tests (PVTs), emergent markers of neuropsychological status and the link between emotional and cognitive functioning. The common thread connecting these areas is the search for contextual variables associated with non-credible responding during neuropsychological assessment. The ultimate goal is to develop a better understanding of the complex relationship between the examinee’s personal history, current stressors and demands, psychiatric conditions, instrumentation artifacts and their effect on neurocognitive profiles. At the practical level, his research program is designed to identify clinically relevant and statistically robust predictors of invalid response patterns using embedded PVTs in isolation and aggregated into composite scores. Developing novel indices in well-established tests and exploring the advantages of a multivariate approach to performance validity assessment over single indicators is a recurrent theme in these investigations.