A New Take on Adaptive Functioning Within Correctional Facilities
Date of Award
2020
Document Type
Doctoral Research Paper
Degree Name
Psy.D.
Organizational Unit
Graduate School of Professional Psychology
First Advisor
Lavita Nadkarni
Second Advisor
W. Neil Gowensmith
Third Advisor
Jessica Flermoen
Keywords
Forensics, Tests, Adaptive, Adaptive functioning, Measures, Inmates, Assessments, Corrections
Abstract
Although correctional facilities have been utilizing adaptive functioning measures for decades, none of the current measures are normed to the correctional population. The present research is an exploratory study of the opinions of psychologists working within correctional facilities in a Western state regarding their understanding and utilization of adaptive functioning measures as well as their related opinions regarding what those tests could improve on when using them with a correctional population. This researcher hypothesized that psychologists would endorse minimal numbers of assessment measures that they have available to them and that they find many of the assessments not applicable to a correctional population. This hypothesis was supported. Additionally, this researcher provided recommendations for future adaptive functioning measures, as well as recommendations for what practitioners could do to improve on their current practices.
Publication Statement
Copyright held by the author. Permanently suppressed.
Extent
31 pgs
Recommended Citation
Metropoulos, Deanna, "A New Take on Adaptive Functioning Within Correctional Facilities" (2020). Graduate School of Professional Psychology: Doctoral Papers and Masters Projects. 380.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/capstone_masters/380