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Current understanding of the cost-effectiveness of testing sexual assault kits
Published in Rachel E. Lovell, Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling, Sexual Assault Kits and Reforming the Response to Rape, 2023
Beyond the efforts to measure the impact of growth in the DNA database, early examination of case submissions suggests that efforts to reduce the TAT for DNA analysis have even greater dynamic benefits. Since most forensic laboratories do not bill the policing agencies for submission of evidence, price is replaced by queuing time to receive results. When TAT is reduced, there tends to be an increase in the submissions of casework to the forensic laboratory. FORESIGHT data suggests that a one percent reduction in TAT will increase DNA submissions by 1.2%. That increase may come from all sources of DNA analysis, including increased reporting of sexual assaults as faster action is taken in support of the survivors of sexual assault. Regardless of the source cases, the ROI will continue to climb, providing even greater economic justification for increased resource allocation for testing.
Planned Compulsive Homicides
Published in Louis B. Schlesinger, Sexual Murder, 2021
He responded on the TAT in a fairly guarded fashion as the purpose of this test was apparent to him. He produced only innocuous stories, attempting to project an image of normalcy. For example, on Card 13MF, which typically elicits themes of violence, sex, and aggression, the offender said,This guy got up early in the morning with a hangover, and that’s it. Or it could be a woman asleep while her husband is getting ready to go to work. Two married people. Or it doesn’t look like a man with a prostitute. She is naked in bed. I don’t know what it is.
Psychological Testing
Published in Mohamed Ahmed Abd El-Hay, Understanding Psychology for Medicine and Nursing, 2019
In the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), the subject is shown a series of 20 pictures, each of which can be interpreted in a variety of ways, and is asked to construct a story based on each one. Responses tend to reflect a person’s problems, motives, preoccupations, and interpersonal skills.
Interpersonal Decentering and Interpersonal Problems: Testing the Multi-Method Utility of Person-Situation Interactions in Thematic Apperception Tests
Published in Journal of Personality Assessment, 2022
Sharon Rae Jenkins, Alana Harrison Fondren, Richard S. Herrington
Doing justice to the complexity of human social cognition requires reconceptualization of decentering processes beyond the classic categorical definitions of ability, trait, situation, and mechanistic analysis of variance interaction terms. Thematic apperceptive techniques (TATs) are the premier clinical assessment tool for appraising social cognition in adolescents and young adults, but TAT researchers have long struggled to make this complexity understood by psychometricians (e.g., Atkinson, 1981; McClelland, 1980). As a developmental construct, decentering is an ability normally acquired with maturation. However, the inclination to exercise this ability or not might be a stable trait. Decentering processes might also be situationally activated, depending on whether the demand characteristics of the situation cue maximal performance (defined by one’s ‘best effort’) or more typical behavior (Annotti & Teglasi, 2017; Teglasi, 2013). Like many other human abilities, once attained, decentering processes may be used selectively in situations that require mature perspective-taking (Jenkins et al., 2020). Thus, in late adolescents and adults, a high decentering score includes presumed mature ability and some balance of trait tendency and situational activation. Similarly, Schultheiss and Brunstein (1999) showed the effects of situational activation of mental imagery on the congruence between implicit motives and motive-related incentives in pursuit of a social interaction goal.
Clinical considerations in the psychological evaluation of gestational surrogates: uses of narrative assessment
Published in Human Fertility, 2022
Mary P. Riddle, Sharon R. Jenkins
The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) was developed by Harvard psychologists, Henry Murray and Christiana Morgan (Morgan & Murray, 1935) and is a series of cards with ambiguous drawings. Most include one or more people engaged in various activities. Subjects are asked make up stories about the cards noting what happened before the picture scenes, the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours of the characters, and how the story will end (Groth-Marnat, 2009). The scoring systems utilised in scoring the TAT protocols were Rosenzweig and Fleming’s Apperceptive Norms (Rosenzweig & Fleming, 1949), Leonard Eron’s Rating Scales for Emotional Tone and Outcome (Eron et al., 1950) and Reuben Fine’s Scoring Scheme for the Thematic Apperception Test (Ornduff, 2008). These are long-used, objective, validated, and low-inference content analysis systems that can be scored easily with high interrater reliability and were chosen, in part, because none require subjective interpretation of the content of the stories. The following uniform instructions were given to each GS candidate in the administration of the TAT:
A systems approach to mapping performance in Indian healthcare organizations
Published in International Journal of Healthcare Management, 2021
Priya Harikumar, P. G. Saleeshya
TAT is one of the most visible signs of laboratory service effectiveness and is used as a key performance indicator. Ninety per cent completion time of less than an hour for normal laboratory tests is recommended as a primary goal for acceptable TAT [55]. In our case, hospital studied the laboratory experience significant delay in the arrival of test results. We analysed the factors which cause the delay and hence the waiting at the lab counters (Figure 4). Normal lab TAT is determined by the specimen order collection time, analysis, and post-analysis time. These parameters are determined by the availability of sufficient resources, qualified, and trained employees in the laboratory. Number of lab counters functioning at each time also affects the productivity. Insufficient or inefficient resources lead to major delay in lab TAT.