ASSESSING THE SPECTRUM OF PERSONALTY DISORDERS AND PSYCHOPATHY: Cognitive, Clinical, and Forensic Update

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1 The Nineteenth Annual Conference on Contemporary Applications of Psychological Testing ASSESSING THE SPECTRUM OF PERSONALTY DISORDERS AND PSYCHOPATHY: Cognitive, Clinical, and Forensic Update Pre-conference: Cognition and Personality Disorders: Reciprocal Influences and Neuroscientific Perspectives with a Focus on the Cluster B Syndromes November 17-19, 2016 William James College, Newton, MA Speakers J. Reid Meloy, PhD Christopher Hopwood, PhD Frank DiCataldo, PhD Philip Erdberg, PhD Gregory Meyer, PhD William Stone, PhD Sarah Fineberg, MD, PhD Donald Lynam, PhD John D. Mayer, PhD Joshua Miller PhD Presented by The Department of Psychology, Massachusetts Mental Health Center William James College Course Directors Robert Kinscherff, PhD, JD June G. Wolf, PhD William Stone, PhD Lisa Iguchi, PhD Anthony Giuliano, PhD Philip Erdberg, PhD Gregory Meyer, PhD Stephen Behnke, JD, PhD, MDiv Kerry Nelligan, PsyD 21 CE credits available

2 Thursday, November 17, 2016 Cognition and Personality Disorders: Reciprocal Influences and Neuroscientific Perspectives with a Focus on the Cluster B Syndromes Course Description Assessing cognition and personality allows a multidimensional picture that is useful clinically. This program will focus on reciprocal influences of cognition and personality in the development and clinical expression of personality disorders, e.g., executive dysfunction in Cluster B personality disorders. Invited speakers will present evidence from research, provide illustration by way of a case presentation, and discuss implications and future directions in a panel discussion. Learning Objectives (1) Participants will learn the clinical symptoms of borderline and other personality disorders. (2) Participants will learn ways in which cognition and brain function provide core features of personality disorders (3) Participants will learn ways in which demographic factors such as age, gender, mental health, socioeconomic status, and cultural diversity affect the expression of personality disorders. Schedule 8:00 8:30 Registration 8:30 8:45 Welcome Bill Stone, PhD 8:45 9:45 Deconstructing the personality disorders using the basic elements of personality: A Five Factor Model Approach Donald R. Lynam, PhD 9:45-10:45 The nomological networks of grandiose and vulnerable narcissism and their implications for assessment Joshua D. Miller, PhD 10:45 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:00 Interactive social tasks to quantify social functioning in Borderline Personality Disorder Sarah K. Fineberg, MD, PhD 12:00-1:00 Lunch (provided) 1:00-2:00 Case Presentation 2:00-3:00 Personality disorders and the ability to reason about ourselves John D. Mayer, PhD 3:00-3:15 Coffee Break 3:15-4:30 Panel Discussion

3 Friday, November 18, 2016 Assessing the Spectrum of Personality Disorders and Psychopathy: Cognitive, Clinical, and Forensic Update Course Description This two-day, integrative conference begins by focusing on understanding and assessing personality disorders and psychopathy using self-report inventories, multimethod semi-structured interviews, and performance measures. An emphasis is placed on the personality disorder model found in Section III of the DSM-5, which encompasses two fundamental dimensions of personality disorder Self (identity and self-direction) and Interpersonal (empathy and intimacy). With this foundation, the focus shifts to the intersection of the law with psychopathy and traditional PDs in terms of criminal responsibility and other forensic issues, including recent court rulings that affect juvenile sentencing and findings related to the adult follow-up of juveniles sentenced for murder. Cases and case vignettes are presented throughout to ground the workshop in practice. Learning Objectives 1) Become familiar with supportive research and clinical utility of the DSM-5 Alternative Model of Personality Disorders (AMPD) 2) Understand the DSM-5 AMPD and its relationship to other dimensional theories of personality 3) Learn evidence-based approaches to assessing DSM-5 AMPD constructs 4) Learn about current Rorschach research for personality disorders 5) Understand how Rorschach variables can help describe the principal dimensions of personality disorders and contribute to intervention planning 6) Apply learning and understanding to a clinical case Upon completion of the program the student will be able to: 1) Use the Rorschach to assess personality disorders 2) Compare DSM-5 personality diagnoses to other paradigms of personality 3) Delineate evidence of psychopathy in psychological assessment Schedule 8:00 8:15 Registration 8:15 Introduction and Welcome June Wolf, PhD 8:30 9:30 Review of personality disorders with focus on DSM-5 AMPD Christopher Hopwood, PhD 10:00 10:15 Personality disorder assessment with DSM-5 AMPD Christopher Hopwood, PhD 10:15 12:15 Rorschach assessment of personality disorders within DSM-5 AMPD Philip Erdberg, PhD and Gregory Meyer, PhD 12:15 1:00 Lunch (provided) 1:00-3:00 Assessing the case of Madeline Gregory Meyer, PhD, Philip Erdberg, PhD, and Christopher Hopwood, PhD 3:00 3:15 Break 3:15 4:30 Case presentation William Stone, PhD and Philip Erdberg, PhD

4 Saturday, November 19, 2016 Schedule 8:20 8:30 Welcome Stephen Behnke, JD, PhD, MDiv 8:30 10:00 Psychopathy and its intersection with traditional personality disorders and AMPD J. Reid Meloy, PhD 10:00 10:15 Coffee Break 10:15 12:00 Psychopathy and its intersection with traditional personality disorders and AMPD (contd) J. Reid Meloy, PhD 12:00 12:45 Lunch (provided) 12:45 2:00 The intersection of law with psychopathy and personality disorders: Criminal responsibility Stephen Behnke, JD, PhD, MDiv, Frank DiCataldo, PhD, and J. Reid Meloy, PhD 2:00 2:45 Are there adolescent psychopaths or just kids who need help? J. Reid Meloy, PhD 2:45 3:00 Coffee Break 3:00 4:30 Juvenile sentencing; Adult follow-up of juveniles sentenced for murder Frank DiCataldo, PhD, Stephen Behnke, JD, PhD, MDiv, and J. Reid Meloy, PhD 4:30-5:00 All Faculty Panel

5 Faculty Stephen H. Behnke, JD, PhD, MDiv Lecturer in Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Co-author, Essentials of Massachusetts Mental Health Law; and Essentials of California Mental Health Law.. Frank DiCataldo, PhD Assistant Professor of Psychology, Roger Williams University; Author The Perversions of Youth. 2009, NYU Press. Philip Erdberg, PhD, ABPP Associate Clinical Professor, University of California, San Francisco; faculty San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute; member of the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS) development team. Sarah K. Fineberg, MD, PhD Instructor, Yale School of Medicine; Attending psychiatrist, Connecticut Mental Health Center Transitional Living Program; Attending psychiatrist, Acute Services Clinic, Connecticut Mental Health Center. Christopher J. Hopwood, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University, and Director of the MSU Interpersonal Problems Clinic; board member the Society for Personality Assessment, North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, and Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research. Robert Kinscherff, PhD, JD Robert Kinscherff, PhD, JD Associate Vice President for Community Engagement and Associate Professor, William James College; Senior Associate, National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice; Senior Fellow in Law and Applied Neuroscience jointly for Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Law School. Lisa Iguchi, PhD Instructor in Psychology, Massachusetts Mental Health Center; Lecturer in Psychology, Harvard Medical School. Donald Lynam, PhD Distinguished Professor, Purdue University; Faculty Member of National Consortium on Violence Research. John D. Mayer, PhD Professor of Psychology, University of New Hampshire; Author Personal Intelligence: The Power of Personality and How it Shapes Our Lives, Scientific American/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (2014). J. Reid Meloy, PhD, ABPP (Forensic); Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UC San Diego School of Medicine; faculty, San Diego Psychoanalytic Center; his most recent book with Dr. Jens Hoffmann is the International Handbook of Threat Assessment (Oxford University Press, 2014). Gregory J. Meyer, PhD Professor of Psychology, University of Toledo; Author, with Viglione, D. J., Mihura, J. L., Erard, R. E., & Erdberg, P. (2011). Rorschach Performance Assessment System: Administration, Coding, Interpretation, and Technical Manual. Toledo, OH: Rorschach Performance Assessment System. (ISBN ; Joshua Miller, PhD Professor and Director Clinical Psychology Training Program, University of Georgia; Associate Editor, Journal of Abnormal Psychology; Co-author Handbook of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Theoretical Approaches, Empirical Findings, and Treatments. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley (2011). Kerry Nelligan, PsyD Director of Clinical Risk Management, Massachusetts Mental Health Center; Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School.. William S. Stone, PhD, ABPP Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Director of Clinical Neuropsychology, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Past President, Massachusetts Neuropsychological Society. June G. Wolf, PhD, ABPP Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Director of Psychology and Psychology Training, Massachusetts Mental Health Center.

6 Registration & details FEES:* Professionals (includes CEUs) Trainees and Other Professionals Thursday, November 17 $170 $85 Friday and Saturday, Nov $330 $165 * Lunch will be included each day LOCATION The conference will be held at William James College, 1 Wells Avenue, Newton, MA. ACCREDITATION This program is co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Mental Health Center Psychology Department and William James College. William James College is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. William James College maintains responsibility for this program and its content. For each day 7 hours of CE credit are designated REGISTRATION, CANCELLATION, AND REFUNDS Register at Requests for refunds received prior to November will be honored, minus $20 administrative fee. See William James College Continuing Education policies for full information (

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