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Book review of \u201cPersonality Assessment in Police Psychology.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

When you start reading Personality Assessment in Police Psychology: A 21st Century Perspective<\/i><\/b> <\/b>\u00a0(Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd\u00a0 June 14, 2010,\u00a0 Peter A. Weiss, Editor)<\/i><\/b>, you are hit in the face with a history of the personality testing in law enforcement written by Peter Weiss, the editor, and Robin Inwald.\u00a0 Gee, I think I\u2019ve heard her name before.\u00a0 The history section held a lot of surprises for me.\u00a0 Some of the names of the early pioneers like Joe Fabricatore and Jim Shaw were people I met originally when I came to join the organizations in the field, and people that accepted me with open arms.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t realize they were so impactful and important in building the profession.\u00a0 The history of the Society for Police and Criminal Psychology, the APA Division 18 and the IACP Police Psych Services Section all had one or two things that I didn\u2019t know about.\u00a0 But the real history that surprised me was the history of personality testing for Law Enforcement populations.\u00a0 Some of this history was downright enlightening, and the presentation was very good, and more than that, it was written in a style that made sense on the first read through which is often difficult when writing history.\u00a0 That is worth the price of admission, but there is so much more here.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the articles, you hear various professionals in our field give their view of certain tests, or processes, and at the end, some unusual situations where personality testing was important in police psychology.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For example, John (Jack) Jones wrote a brilliant piece on integrity testing in pre-offer that was a combination of history, education and a how-to article.\u00a0 It was well-written for the consumer and gave practical advice.\u00a0 It promoted a bifurcated model of testing with testing for issues like integrity and conscientiousness pre-offer, and testing for pathology post-conditional offer.\u00a0 It was excellent and got me thinking about specifics of the whole pre-offer-post offer paradigm that is out-front since the ADA laws.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then there was Mike Aamodt\u2019s article on the meta-analysis of the various types of testing for Law Enforcement candidates.\u00a0 Now I will preface this by saying Mike Aamodt is one of the best presenters I have ever seen in police psychology, and his research makes some of the most sense of anyone I have ever read in all police psychology.\u00a0 He has a way about him that makes the most intricate principles simple, the most esoteric ideas commonplace, and the most convoluted concepts sequential.\u00a0 He starts off his article by saying we are not predicting whether a person is good on the job, we are predicting supervisors ratings when the person is on the job \u2013 right to the root of what is going on.\u00a0 Then he goes on to show evidence that psychologists are not good at connecting pathology predictions from a test to supervisors\u2019 ratings of job performance.\u00a0 Further stating that even with predictors of normal personality, only a few scales have significant level of predictive significance, for example the tolerance scale on the CPI is a good predictor of supervisor ratings.\u00a0 Mike Aamodt is a brilliant man and his inclusion in this wonderful collection of essays was very important.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are other essays by authors like Eric Ostrov on using multiple sources of information, JoAnne Brewster, Philip Wickline and Mike Stoloff on the use of the Rorschach in personality testing with Law Enforcement screenings,\u00a0 Cary Rostov and Bob Davis on the M-Pulse, Gerald Serafino on fundamental issues, and of course Peter Weiss\u2019 own father, the ex-editor of the Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, William Weiss.<\/span><\/p>\n

Faults with the book?\u00a0 Damn, I can\u2019t think of many.\u00a0 The essays cover the topic well, they are interesting, there is some new stuff here, and where needed they are well researched.\u00a0 If there is s a fault, I would suggest the history article has some bias toward telling history with a little angle, but this is not a big thing.\u00a0 This is a good book with a lot of good information.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, try to get a copy of Personality Assessment in Police Psychology: A 21st Century Perspective.<\/i><\/b>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b>You will find it worth your time and no matter what level you are at you will learn a lot.\u00a0\u00a0 It is a wonderful reference to add to your library.<\/span><\/p>\n

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