Nathan Weed Ph.D.
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Address: Email: weed1nc@cmich.edu |
Bio:
Nathan Weed received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1992. He joined the CMU faculty in 2001 after nine years on the clinical psychology faculty at the University of Mississippi. His chief teaching, research, and clinical interests are in the area of clinical psychological assessment. He directs a psychological assessment research laboratory and a specialty training clinic (the Psychological Assessment Clinic) devoted to psychological assessment. Dr. Weed is a Consulting Editor for Assessment, published by Sage, and for the Journal of Personality Assessment, published by Erlbaum.
Research Interest:
My research centers on problems in construction and validation of psychological assessments, particularly those involving the assessment of personality and psychopathology. Recent scale construction projects have included the development and validation of MMPI-2 scales used to: (1) screen for substance abuse problems, (2) identify symptoms associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and (3) assess features of the Korean culture-bound syndrome of Hwa-Byung. Recent validation studies include examinations of: (1) the relative validity of commercially available computer-based test interpretations, (2) the utility of the MMPI-2 PSY-5 scales as measures of dispositional coping, and (3) the field reliability of clinical MMPI-2 interpretation. Many of my current projects apply a novel q-sort methodology to validate personality test inferences.
Recent Research:
Cox, A. C., Weed, N. C., & Butcher, J. N. (2008). The MMPI-2: History, interpretation, and clinical issues. In J. N. Butcher (Ed.), Handbook of personality and clinical assessment. New York: Oxford University Press.
Chung, J., Weed, N. C., & Han, K. (2006). Evaluating cross-cultural equivalence of the Korean MMPI-2 via bilingual test-retest. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 30, 531-543.
Roberts, M. E., Han, K., & Weed, N. C. (2006). Construction of an MMPI-2 scale to assess Hwa-Byung, a Korean culture-bound syndrome. Transcultural Psychiatry, 43, 383-401.
Weed, N. C. (2006). Syndromal complexity, paradigm shifts, and the future of validation research: Comments on Nichols and Rogers, Sewell, Harrison, and Jordan. Journal of Personality Assessment, 87, 230-235.
Young, K. R., & Weed, N. C. (2006). Assessing alcohol and drug abusing clients with the MMPI-2. In J. N. Butcher (Ed.), Practitioner's guide to the MMPI-2. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Weed, N. C., & Deskovitz, M. A. (2004). Not a very objective view of psychological assessment. [A review of the book Comprehensive handbook of psychological assessment, Volume 2: Personality assessment]. PsycCRITIQUES:
Contemporary Psychology--APA Review of Books, 49, Supplement 3.
Williams, J. E., & Weed, N. C. (2004). Relative user ratings of computer-based test interpretations for the MMPI-2. Assessment, 11, 316-329.
Williams, J. E., & Weed, N. C. (2004). Review of computer-based test interpretation software for the MMPI-2. Journal of Personality Assessment, 83, 78-83.
Han, K., Weed, N. C., & Butcher, J. N. (2003). Dyadic agreement on the MMPI-2. Personality and Individual Differences, 35, 603-615.