Specialties and Interests

• Personality Assessment
  
• Neuropsychological Assessment
• Cognitive and Affective Bases of Behavior

Courses Taught

• Personality Assessment
• Neuropsychological Assessment
• Cognitive and Affective Bases of Behavior

Selected Publications

• Blais, M.A, Baity, M.R., & Hopwood, C. (In press).  Clinical Applications of the Personality Assessment Inventory. Routledge. (Expected Release 2/10)
  http://www.routledgementalhealth.com/clinical-applications-of-the-personality-assessment-inventory-9780415993234

• Baity, M.R., Blais, M.A., Hilsenroth, M.J., Fowler, J.C., & Padawer, J. (In press) Self-mutilation, severity of borderline psychopathology and the Rorschach. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic.
• Barazani, S., Smith, S.A., Baity, M.R., & Hilsenroth, M.H. (2008). Rorschach correlates of adolescent self-mutilation.  Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 72, 54 – 77.
  
• Baity, M.R., Siefert, C.S., Chambers, A., & Blais, M.A.  (2007).  Deceptiveness on the PAI: A study of naïve faking with psychiatric inpatients.  Journal of Personality Assessment, 88, 16-24.
• Jacobo, M.C., Blais, M.A., Baity, M.R., & Harley, R. (2007). Concurrent validity of the Personality Assessment Inventory Borderline Scales in patients seeking Dialectical Behavior Therapy.  Journal of Personality Assessment, 88, 75-81.
• Harley, R., Baity, M.R., Blais, M.A., Jacobo, M.C. (2007). Use of DBT skills training for borderline personality disorder in a naturalistic setting. Psychotherapy Research, 17, 362 – 370.
• Blais, M.A., & Baity, M.R.  (2005). Exploring the psychometric properties and clinical utility of the Modified Mini-Mental State Examination (3MS) in a medical psychiatric sample.  Assessment, 12, 1–7.
• Hilsenroth, M.J., Baity, M.R., Mooney, M.A., & Meyer, G.J.  (2004).  DSM-IVMajor Depressive Episode criteria: An evaluation of reliability and validity across three different rating methods.  International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 8, 3-10.
• Smith, S.R., Hilsenroth, M.J., Baity, M.R., & Knowles, E.S. (2003). Assessment of patient and therapist perspectives of process: A revision of the Vanderbilt Psychotherapy Process Scale.  American Journal of Psychotherapy, 57, 195-205.
• Hilsenroth, M.J., Ackerman, S.J., Blagys, M.D., Baity, M.R., & Mooney, M.A. (2003).  Short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy for depression: An examination of statistical, clinically significant and technique specific change. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 191, 349-357.
• Baity, M..R., & Hilsenroth, M.J. (2002). Rorschach aggressive content (AgC) variable: A study of criterion validity. Journal of Personality Assessment, 78, 275-287.
  
• Blais, M. A., Hilsenroth, M. J., Castlebury, F., Fowler, J. C., & Baity, M. R. (2001).  Predicting DSM-IV Cluster B personality disorder criteria from MMPI-2 and Rorschach data: A test of incremental validity. Journal of Personality Assessment, 76, 150-168.
• Baumann, B. D., Hilsenroth, M. J., Ackerman, S. J., Baity, M. R., Smith, C. L., Smith, S.R., Blagys, M. D., Price, J. L., Heindselman, T. L., Mount, M. K., & Holdwick, D. J. (2001).  The Capacity for Dynamic Process Scale (CDPS): An examination of reliability, validity, and relation to therapeutic alliance. Psychotherapy Research, 11, 275-294.
• Smith, S.R., Baity, M.R., Knowles, E.S., & Hilsenroth, M.J. (2001). Assessment of disordered thinking in children and adolescents: The Rorschach Perceptual-Thinking Index. Journal of Personality Assessment, 77, 447-463.
• Baity, M.R., McDaniel, P.S., & Hilsenroth, M.J.  (2000).  Further exploration of the Rorschach aggressive content variable.  Journal of Personality Assessment, 74, 231-241.
• Ackerman, S.J.,  Hilsenroth, M.J., Baity, M.R., and Blagys, M.D. (2000). Interaction of therapeutic process and alliance during psychological assessment. Journal of Personality Assessment 75, 1, 82-109.
• Hilsenroth, M. J., Ackerman, S. J., Blagys, M. D., Baumann, B. D., Baity, M. R., Smith, S. R., Price, J. L., Smith, C. L., Heindselman, T. L., Mount, M. K., & Holdwick, D. J. (2000).  Reliability and validity of DSM-IV Axis V.  American Journal of Psychiatry, 157, 1858-1863.
• Baity, M. R. & Hilsenroth, M.  J.  (1999).  Rorschach aggression variables: A study of reliability and validity.  Journal of Personality Assessment, 72, 93-110.
  

• Baity, M.R. (In press). Brief rating scales for the assessment of cognitive and neuropsychological status.   In L. Baer and M.A. Blais (Eds.).  Handbook of clinical rating scales and assessment in psychiatry and mental health.  Humana Press:  Totowa, NJ.
• Siefert, C.J., DeFife, J.A., & Baity, M.R. (In press). Process measures for psychodynamic psychotherapy.  In R. Levy and S.J. Ablon. (Eds.), Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.  Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.
• Gacono, C.B., Bannatyne-Gacono, L., Meloy, J.R., & Baity, M.R.  (2008).  The Rorschach assessment of aggression: The Rorschach extrended aggression scores.  In C.B Gacono, F.B. Evans, N. Kaser-Boyd, and L.A. Gacono (Eds.), The Handbook of Forensic Rorschach Assessment.  New York, NY: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Blais, M.A., & Baity, M.R.  (2008).  The projective assessment of personality structure and pathology.  In G.J. Boyle, G. Matthews, and D.H. Saklofske (Eds.).  The SAGE Handbook of Personality Theory and Assessment: Vol. 2 Personality Measurement and Testing (pp. 566 – 586).  Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA.
• Blais, M.A., Baity, M.R., & O’Keefe, S.  (2008).  Understanding and applying psychological assessment.  In T. A. Stern, J.F. Rosenbaum, M. Fava, Biederman, J., and S. Rauch (Eds.).  Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry.  Mosby Inc., St. Louis, MO.
• Blais, M.A., & Baity, M.R.  (2006). Rorschach assessment of histrionic personality disorder.  In S. Huprich (Ed.) Rorschach Assessment of Personality Disorders. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates:  Mahwah, NJ.
  

Professional Activities

• Consulting Editor: Journal of Personality Assessment
• Manuscript reviewer:  Journal of Psychological Assessment, Assessment

Degrees, Professional Licenses, Certifications, and Honors

• 12/95 - Bachelor of Arts cum laude, University of North Texas
• 5/99 - Master of Arts in Psychology, University of Arkansas
• 7/02 - Internship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• 8/03 - Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology, University of Arkansas
  
• 7/03 - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• 8/04 to 8/08 - Licensed Psychologist, Massachusetts
• 8/08 to Present - Assistant Professor, Alliant International University

Professional and Honorary Memberships

• Member, Society for Personality Assessment
• Member, American Psychological Association
• Member, APA Division 39, Section VI (Psychoanalytic Research)