Profiles
Richard W. Handel, PhD
Richard Handel, PhD, has spent his entire professional career on the faculty at EVMS. He currently serves in the dual roles of Institutional Wellness Officer and Director of the Student Mental Health Program. Over the course of his career, he has taught and mentored extensively at EVMS, including in the Doctor of Medicine, Psychiatry Residency and Psychology Internship programs, as well as through the Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology. He previously served in administrative roles for both the psychology internship program (Co-Director) and the VCPCP (Associate Director). Dr. Handel’s research has been focused in the area of self-report assessment of personality and psychopathology. He is a co-author of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent-Restructured Form (MMPI-A-RF). The MMPI-A-RF is widely-used throughout the United States as a clinical measure of adolescent personality and psychopathology. Moreover, Dr. Handel was the recipient of the 2006 Samuel J. and Anne G. Beck Award for Outstanding Early Career Research in the Field of Personality Assessment from the Society for Personality Assessment and the 2015 Bud Orgel Award for Distinguished Achievement in Research from the Association of Psychologists in Academic Health Centers. He currently serves on multiple scientific journal editorial boards.
Graduate Education
PhD, Clinical Psychology, Kent State University (2000)
Board Certifications
Licensure: Virginia Board of Psychology
Research Interests
The clinical assessment of psychopathology and personality with an emphasis on the MMPI-2-RF and MMPI-A-RF.
Presentations and Scholarships
Recent Publications
Shakalim, E., Ben-Porath, Y.S., Handel, R.W., Almagor, M., & Tellegen, A. (in press). Psychometric examination, adaptation, and evaluation of the Hebrew translation of the MMPI-2-RF VRIN-r and TRIN-r validity scales. Journal of Personality Assessment.
Burchett, D., Dragon, W. R., Smith Holbert, A. M., Tarescavage, A. M., Mattson, C. A., Handel, R. W., & Ben-Porath, Y. S. (in press). "False feigners": Examining the impact of non-content-based invalid responding on the MMPI-2-RF content-based invalid responding indicators. Psychological Assessment.
Archer, R.P., Handel, R.W., Ben-Porath, Y.S., & Tellegen, A. (2016). Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent-Restructured Form (MMPI-A-RF): Administration, Scoring, Interpretation, and Technical Manual. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Archer, R.P., Handel, R.W., Ben-Porath, Y.S., & Tellegen, A. (2016). MMPI-A-RF: User’s Guide for Reports. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Recent Presentations
McBride, W., LaTulip, S., Handel, R.W., Brokenbourgh, M., Arbisi, P., & Wygant, D. (2016, May). Examining the Measurement Invariance of the MMPI-2-RF Externalizing Specific Problems Scales in African American and Caucasian Men. Paper presented at the 51st Annual Workshop and Symposium on Recent MMPI-2/MMPI-2-RF/MMPI-A Research, Ft. Lauderdale, Fl.
Minifie, J., Handel, R.W., & Archer, R.P. (2016, May). The Effects of Varying Degrees of Fixed and Random Responding on the Validity of Score Interpretations for the Specific Problems (SP) and PSY-5-r Scales of the MMPI-2-RF. Poster presented at the 51st Annual Workshop and Symposium on Recent MMPI-2/MMPI-2-RF/MMPI-A Research, Ft. Lauderdale, Fl.
Primary Specialty
Clinical Psychology
Graduate Education
PhD, Clinical Psychology, Kent State University (2000)
Board Certifications
Licensure: Virginia Board of Psychology
Research Interests
The clinical assessment of psychopathology and personality with an emphasis on the MMPI-2-RF and MMPI-A-RF.
Presentations and Scholarships
Recent Publications
Shakalim, E., Ben-Porath, Y.S., Handel, R.W., Almagor, M., & Tellegen, A. (in press). Psychometric examination, adaptation, and evaluation of the Hebrew translation of the MMPI-2-RF VRIN-r and TRIN-r validity scales. Journal of Personality Assessment.
Burchett, D., Dragon, W. R., Smith Holbert, A. M., Tarescavage, A. M., Mattson, C. A., Handel, R. W., & Ben-Porath, Y. S. (in press). "False feigners": Examining the impact of non-content-based invalid responding on the MMPI-2-RF content-based invalid responding indicators. Psychological Assessment.
Archer, R.P., Handel, R.W., Ben-Porath, Y.S., & Tellegen, A. (2016). Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent-Restructured Form (MMPI-A-RF): Administration, Scoring, Interpretation, and Technical Manual. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Archer, R.P., Handel, R.W., Ben-Porath, Y.S., & Tellegen, A. (2016). MMPI-A-RF: User’s Guide for Reports. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Recent Presentations
McBride, W., LaTulip, S., Handel, R.W., Brokenbourgh, M., Arbisi, P., & Wygant, D. (2016, May). Examining the Measurement Invariance of the MMPI-2-RF Externalizing Specific Problems Scales in African American and Caucasian Men. Paper presented at the 51st Annual Workshop and Symposium on Recent MMPI-2/MMPI-2-RF/MMPI-A Research, Ft. Lauderdale, Fl.
Minifie, J., Handel, R.W., & Archer, R.P. (2016, May). The Effects of Varying Degrees of Fixed and Random Responding on the Validity of Score Interpretations for the Specific Problems (SP) and PSY-5-r Scales of the MMPI-2-RF. Poster presented at the 51st Annual Workshop and Symposium on Recent MMPI-2/MMPI-2-RF/MMPI-A Research, Ft. Lauderdale, Fl.
Primary Specialty
Clinical Psychology