Law and Mental Health - Law and Mental Health: Administering and Interpreting Performance Validity Tests (PVTs)

Law and Mental Health: Administering and Interpreting Performance Validity Tests (PVTs) for Individuals with Suspected Low Intellectual Functioning - Sara Millspaugh, Ph.D. Sara Millspaugh, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist with a specialty in forensic psychology working for Gold Standard Forensics (GSF). She received her Ph.D. in 2021 from Rosalind Franklin University. Presently, she conducts forensic and clinical evaluations for various referral questions and engages in other clinical activities related to forensic and legal psychology, including consultation and testimony services during court martials for the United States Air Force and Army. She is also the program coordinator for research projects conducted within GSF, and one of her focuses is to create a research focus within the practice. She is the co-author and editor of the updated manual of the Competence Assessment for Standing Trial for Defendants with Intellectual Disability (CAST*ID) and has presented at academic conferences and co-authored peer-reviewed journal articles and a book chapter on a variety of topics related to psychology and the law. Additionally, she serves as the Citizen Representative with Behavioral Health Expertise on the New Mexico Law Enforcement Standards and Training Council. She completed her predoctoral internship at the Federal Correctional Center in Butner, NC, where she conducted forensic evaluations, provided residential treatment to inmates with severe mental illness, and provided correctional psychology intervention and assessment services. Her postdoctoral fellowship was completed with GSF. Learning Objectives: 1. Describe special considerations for how to administer performance validity tests (PVTs) to individuals with suspected low intellectual functioning. 2. Critique the research on interpreting PVTs administered to individuals with suspected low intellectual functioning. 3. Assess the utility and importance of PVT information for forensic evaluations of individuals with suspected low intellectual functioning. Please note: CEUs, CEs, and CMEs, as well as Certificates of Completion are not available from viewing recordings. In order to be eligible for credit, trainings and presentations must be attended live. Copyright Notice All Rights Reserved. All material appearing on the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube (“content”) is protected by copyright under U.S. Copyright laws and is the property the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences or the party credited as the provider of the content. You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, display, perform, modify, create derivative works, transmit, or in any way exploit any such content, nor may you distribute any part of this content over any network, including a local area network, sell or offer it for sale, or use such content to construct any kind of database. You may not alter or remove any copyright or other notice from copies of the content on the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube. Copying or storing any content except as provided above is expressly prohibited without prior written permission of the University or the copyright holder identified in the individual content’s copyright notice. For permission to use the content on the University’s website, please contact [email protected]. Disclaimer The content contained in University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube is provided only for educational and informational purposes or as required by U.S. or N.M. law. The University attempts to ensure that content is accurate and obtained from reliable sources, but does not represent it to be error-free. University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences may add, amend or repeal any policy, procedure or regulation, and failure to timely post such changes to its website shall not be construed as a waiver of enforcement. University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences does not warrant that any functions on its website will be uninterrupted, that defects will be corrected, or that the website will be free from viruses or other harmful components. Any links to third party information on the University’s YouTube are provided as a courtesy and do not constitute an endorsement of those materials or the third party providing them.