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Riggs Staff to Present at 2026 Society for Personality Assessment Convention
March 25, 2026 at 8:15 AM to March 29, 2026 at 12:15 PM Eastern
Riggs staff members Mark Hayden; Katie Lewis, PhD; and John Rucker, PsyD, will present at the 2026 Society for Personality Assessment (SPA) Workshops & Convention.
Mark Hayden; Katie Lewis, PhD; and John Rucker, PsyD, will present at the 2026 Society for Personality Assessment (SPA) Workshops & Convention, being held March 25 - 29, 2026 at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel in Toronto, Ontario.
Thursday, March 26
- 1:05-2:50 p.m. (Eastern)
Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks: Idiographic Interpretation of EMA Data through the Lens of Performance-Based Measurement
Speaker: Katie Lewis, PhD
Part of the Presidential panel: Assessing Personality as it is Lived: Integrating Context and Daily Life Through Technology
Friday, March 27
- 2:00-2:20 p.m. (Eastern)
Using the Sentence Completion Method to Inform Ratings within the AMPD Framework
Speaker: John Rucker, PsyD - 3:20-3:40 p.m. (Eastern)
Using the Thematic Apperception Test to inform AMPD Ratings
Speaker: Katie Lewis, PhD
Part of the session: Performance-Based Assessment of the DSM-5 Alternative Model of Personality Disorders
- 2:00-2:20 p.m. (Eastern)
Relationships Between Personality Organization, Attachment, and Likelihood of Future Self-Harm in a Depressed Inpatient Sample
Speakers: Alex Ray, John Rucker, PsyD
Part of the session: Psychoanalytic Papers
Saturday, March 28
- 8:50-9:10 a.m. (Eastern)
Preliminary Development and Psychometric Properties of the Adoption-Related Issues Narrative Codes (ARINC)
Poster presentation featuring: Mark Hayden, Alex Ray, and Katie Lewis, PhD
Part of the Saturday Poster Session