Accuracy of adult recollections of childhood victimization: part 1. childhood physical abuse

Article Abstract:

The self-report measures of childhood physical abuse have discriminant validity and predictive efficiency, despite underreporting. Self-report measures obtained in young childhood and after 20 years show reasonable internal reliability, indicating the accuracy and discriminability of retrospective self-reports about physical abuse. Tests of construct validity show shared method variance in which self-report measures predict self-reported violence and official reports predict arrests for violence.

Child abuse, Child abuse reporting

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The 'Aleutian Enterprise' sinking and posttraumatic stress disorder: misdiagnosis in clinical and forensic settings

Article Abstract:

Clinicians assessed 19 of 22 survivors of a marine accident, claiming personal injury compensation, to be sufferers of posttraumatic stress disorder, thereby illustrating clinicians' tendency to overdiagnose survivors of traumatic events, involved in litigation. Clinicians need to exercise professional judgment in assessing the medical status of accident victims by relying less on their patient's self-appraisal.

Diagnosis, Prevention, Diagnostic errors, Post-traumatic stress disorder

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Predictive validity of psychological testing in law enforcement settings

Article Abstract:

Reactions of 69 law enforcement trainees to the Inwald Personality Inventory (IPI) and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) revealed psychological functioning as effective indicators of the future quality of the officers' performance. Subjective and some objective predictors of performance correlated more with IPI subscales than with MMPI subscales.

Law enforcement

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