Products / Assessment Systems

Pain Symptom Ratings (PSR) Forensic Multidimensional Assessment of Self-Reported Pain

Pain Symptom Ratings is a comprehensive forensic self-report instrument designed to evaluate the multidimensional experience of pain within medicolegal and disability examination contexts. The system quantifies symptom intensity, spatial distribution, qualitative descriptors, temporal variability, and functional interference using structured rating scales and standardized response formats.

In addition to core pain dimensions, the PSR assesses psychosocial and behavioral factors known to influence symptom expression and reported severity, including affective distress, cognitive appraisal, illness behavior patterns, and functional adaptation. Embedded response analytics evaluate internal consistency, improbable response configurations, and atypical endorsement patterns to support defensible interpretation in adversarial settings.

Scoring algorithms were initially validated against known criterion groups and the MMPI-2, and have subsequently been examined in relation to established psychometric and performance-based instruments, including the Test of Memory Malingering, Jamar Hand Grip Dynamometer, Wechsler Individual Achievement Test, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Neuropsychological Assessment Battery, Personality Assessment Inventory, Ruff Neurobehavioral Inventory, Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory, Emotional Quotient Inventory, and the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, as well as structured organ system review.

The normative calibration sample includes 2,364 chronic pain patients evaluated in clinical and rehabilitation settings, providing broad representation of medically documented pain presentations. Reliability and validity coefficients are comparable to or exceed those of widely used clinical pain instruments. Output includes continuous severity indices, domain-specific profiles, and classification summaries appropriate for longitudinal monitoring, disability evaluation, and structured forensic reporting.

Forced-Choice Recognition Task (FCRT) Forensic Performance Validity Assessment with Defined Error Rates

The Forced-Choice Recognition Task is a forensic performance validity instrument designed to evaluate effort, response credibility, and intentional underperformance in cognitive assessment contexts. The paradigm functions as an analog to the Test of Memory Malingering and incorporates both verbal and non-verbal recognition formats to assess cross-domain response consistency.

The instrument is grounded in the binomial distribution, providing mathematically defined error rates for below-chance and statistically improbable response patterns. Because forced-choice methodology yields known probability thresholds, interpretive conclusions are anchored in objective statistical expectations rather than subjective judgment. Output includes accuracy indices, binomial probability estimates, response consistency metrics, and discrimination analyses.

Interpretive classifications have been validated against established performance validity and neuropsychological instruments, including the Test of Memory Malingering, Validity Indicator Profile, Rey 15-Item Test, Jamar Hand Grip Dynamometer, Wechsler Individual Achievement Test, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Neuropsychological Assessment Battery, Ruff Neurobehavioral Inventory, and the Pain Symptom Ratings system.

The TACM is appropriate for medicolegal psychological evaluations, disability examinations, neuropsychological assessment, and structured forensic environments requiring statistically defensible performance validity determination.

Career Search V5 (CSV5) Objective Transferable Skills and Earning Capacity Analysis System

Career Search V5 is a structured occupational analysis and transferable skills assessment system based on the National Occupational Classification (NOC). The program contains a database of more than 27,000 job titles organized hierarchically by occupational group, skill level, and economic sector. Each occupation is defined using over 100 standardized worker and job characteristics across seven domains, including interests, aptitudes, worker functions, physical requirements, educational requirements, environmental conditions, and industry.

The system supports manual search, multidimensional filtering, and transferable skills analysis derived from prior employment, education, or documented competencies. Inclusion and exclusion logic allows examiners to model functional limitations, physical restrictions, cognitive demands, and environmental constraints with precision. Transfer algorithms identify occupations that most closely match documented skill profiles while incorporating imposed medical or functional limitations.

In rehabilitation and medicolegal contexts, Career Search V5 supports independent evaluation of residual earning capacity, vocational alternatives, and labor market alignment. The system integrates directly with functional capacity findings and standardized assessment results to produce defensible occupational conclusions and structured reports suitable for expert documentation. Professional judgment remains central to interpretation.

Dictionary of Affect in Language (DAL) Psychometric Quantification of Affective Tone in Language

The Dictionary of Affect in Language (DAL) is a research-based psychometric system designed to quantify the emotional tone of verbal material. Developed within a dimensional model of affect, the DAL assigns normative ratings to more than 4,000 English words along two empirically derived dimensions: Evaluation (pleasantness) and Activation (arousal).

Unlike self-report questionnaires that restrict respondents to fixed options, the DAL permits objective scoring of naturally occurring language. Any written or spoken text—including narratives, clinical interviews, journals, literary passages, headlines, or structured word lists—can be analyzed to derive quantitative indices of affective tone. Outputs include mean Evaluation and Activation levels, variability indices, and frequency distributions of emotionally extreme words, providing a multidimensional profile of affective expression.

The DAL is grounded in psychometric development with published evidence of reliability and validity across research contexts. Because it measures connotative meaning rather than denotative content, it captures affective structure underlying language rather than topic alone, supporting more interpretable comparisons across texts.

Applications include psychological and personality research, mood and narrative analysis, experimental stimulus calibration, media and discourse analysis, and educational and linguistic research.