Practicing psychologists in rural and urban Oregon were surveyed about their perceptions of psychological needs and resources in their communities. Both groups indicated the most salient unmet community needs as adequate access to appropriately trained medication prescribers, comprehensive psychological assessment services, and psychological services for children. When compared with urban communities, those in rural communities have more difficulties with accessing all professional services, and rural psychologists have access to fewer professional resources. However, there appear to be few differences between perceived needs and resources in rural and urban communities. Psychologists who practice in these communities perceive a strong need for more access to psychological services in both settings.

The Response Bias Scale (RBS) and the Henry-Heilbronner Index (HHI) are two recently developed Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) validity scales empirically derived for the purpose of detecting feigned symptom report. Utilizing a veteran sample, the present study examined the utility of these and other MMPI-2 validity scales in predicting Word Memory Test (WMT) failure and presence of recent, current, or upcoming compensation evaluation. Although a significant predictor of WMT performance, RBS did not show incremental validity over Infrequency scale of the MMPI-2 in prediction of WMT failure and was not significantly associated with membership in the "Compensation-Context" (CC) group. In contrast, HHI best predicted CC group membership, but only trended toward significance in predicting WMT failure. In predicting CC group membership, HHI showed incremental validity above the established MMPI-2 validity scales, but its specificity was low. In the context of current literature on RBS and HHI, results support continued use of RBS and HHI but suggest that these scales may perform differently in samples other than the compensation-seeking samples on which they were developed.

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