The VIP test is useful to neuropsychologists, forensic, and clinical psychologists in a variety of situations, including civil and criminal trials, competency-to-stand-trial evaluations, and medical insurance examinations.
Benefits
- Support conclusions that may impact the awarding of large sums of money or the determination of competence or culpability.
- Categorize the individual's response style into four categories: compliant, inconsistent, irrelevant, suppressed.
- Conduct a general assessment of response style, including invalid response styles in addition to outright malingering or intentional deception.
- Identify who may not benefit from further, more extensive neuropsychological testing.
Features
The VIP test uses six primary validity indicators to classify an individual's performance as either valid or invalid.
- Each VIP measure captures a different element of the deviations from this expected pattern.
- The test helps assess the relationship between the individual's intention and the effort in completing the test.
- A graph of results helps explain the results in hearing or court proceedings.
- Contains verbal and nonverbal subtests, each of which can be administered independently.
- Scoring rules for the VIP test were developed using a sample of more than 1,000 clinical and nonclinical subjects.
Sample Reports
Interpretive reports compares a respondent's answers to a normative group and against the individual's own demonstrated abilities. Profile reports provide a graphical representation of the respondent's performance on test items.
