Donald J. Viglione, PhD

Specialties and Interests

• Psychological Assessment Clinical & Forensic Application. Assessment Research focuses on (l) Rorschach and (2) Malingering and includes trauma, violence, sexual offending, and child issues

Programs and Research Projects

• Psychological assessment and consultation services. 
• Development of a computerized malingering test - The Inventory of Problems.
• The Child Unusual Beliefs and Experience Scale.
• Sexual Perpetrator Assessment Project with Dr. Robert Brager and STEPS.
• Participation in Rorschach Research Council with Dr. John Exner.

Courses Taught

• Assessment, Personality, and Intellectual
• Sexual offender evaluation  

Selected Publications

• Viglione, D. J., & Hilsenroth, M. (2001). The Rorschach: Facts, fiction, and future. Psychological Assessment, 13, 452-471.
• Viglione, D.J., Wright, D., Dizon, N.T., Moynihan, J.E., DuPuis, S., & Pizitz T.D. (2001). Evading detection on the MMPI-2: Does caution produce more realistic patterns of Responding? Assessment, 8 237-250.
• Viglione, D.J. (1999). A review of recent research addressing the utility of the Rorschach. Psychological Assessment, 11, 251-265.
• Friedberg, R.D., Viglione, D.J., Stinson, B.L., Beal, K.G., Fidaleo, R.A., & Celeste, B.L. (1999) Perceptions of treatment helpfulness and depressive symptomology in psychiatric inpatients on a cognitive therapy unit. Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, 17, 33-50.
• Viglione, D.J. (1997). Problems in Rorschach research and what to do about them. Journal of Personality Assessment, 68, 589-600.
• Viglione, D.J. & Kates, J. (1997). A Rorschach child single-subject study in divorce: A question of psychological resiliency. In J. R. Meloy, M.W. Acklin, C.B. Gacono, J.F. Murray, C.A. Peterson (Eds), Contemporary Rorschach Interpretation (pp. 365-388).. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Burns, B. & Viglione, D.J. (1996). The Rorschach Human Experience Variable, interpersonal relatedness and object representation in nonpatients. Psychological Assessment, 21, 109-112.
• Exner, J.E., with contributions by Colligan, S.C., Hillman, L.B., Ritzler, B.A., Sciara, T., Viglione, D.J. (1995). A Rorschach Workbook for the Comprehensive System, 4th Ed. Rorschach Workshops: Asheville, N.C.
• Viglione, D.J., Fals-Stewart, W. & Moxham, E. (1995). Maximizing internal and external validity in MMPI Malingering Research: A study in a military population. Journal of Personality Assessment, 65, 502-513.
• Viglione, D.J., Gottlieb, R., & Friedberg, R. (1995). Depressive Experiences Questionnaire: An empirical exploration of the underlying theory. Journal of Personality Assessment, 65, 91-99.
• Viglione, D.J. (1995). Basic considerations regarding data analysis. In J.E. Exner (Ed.), Issues and Methods in Rorschach Research (pp. 195-226). Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Netter, B. & Viglione, D.J. (1994). An empirical study of malingering schizophrenia on the Rorschach. Journal of Personality Assessment, 62, 45-57.
• Morgan, L. & Viglione, D.J. (1992). Sexual disturbances, Rorschach sexual responses, and mediating factors. Psychological Assessment, 4, 530-536.
• Viglione, D.J. & Perry, W. (1991). A general model for psychological assessment and psychopathology applied to depression. British Journal of Projective Psychology, 36, 1-16.
• Viglione, D.J. (1990). Severe disturbance or trauma-induced adaptive reaction: A Rorschach child case study. Journal of Personality Assessment, 55, 280-295. (This article won the Walter Klopfer award for distinguished contribution to the literature in personality assessment).
• Viglione, D.J., Exner, J.E. (1983). The effects of state-anxiety and limited social-evaluative stress on the Rorschach. Journal of Personality Assessment, 47, 150-154.

Recent Dissertations Chaired

• The Quality of Paternal Attachment and Violent Behaviors: A Rorschach Study of Convicted Military Male Offenders.
• The Utility of the Rorschach Inkblot Method in the Assessment of Adolescent Sex Offender.
• Cultural Difference or Deficit? Rorschach Responses of Asian Indians and European Americans.
• PTSD and the Fear Structure: Investigating the Rorschach as a Tool to Inform Treatment.
• The Rorschach Comprehensive System Depression Index, Depression Heterogeneity, and the Role of Self-Schema.
• Rorschach Indicators of Simulated Schizophrenia.
• Sexually Offending and Non-Offending Roman Catholic Priests: Characterization and Analysis.
• The Child's Experience of Traumatic Imagery: Exploring Children's Descriptions and Reenactments of Trauma Through Multimethod Assessment and Qualitative Analysis.
• The Relationship of Sexual Disturbances, Gender of the Examiner, and Testing Instructions to Rorschach Sexual Responses and Guardedness.
• Inanimate Movement and Diffuse Shading Responses as Indices of Uncontrollable Stress and the Role of Attributional Style: A Rorschach Validation Study.
• Detection of Malingered Mild Head Injury Using the Tripartite Conceptual Model of Malingering and the Inventory of Problems.
• Synthesis of the Conceptual Inferential Procedures Involved with the Assessment of Malingering: An Applied Study.

Professional Activities

• Licensed and Practicing Clinical Psychologist
• Fellow - Society of Personality Assessment
• Member - National Academy of Neuropsychology
• Fellow - American Board of Assessment Psychology

Professional Licenses, Certifications, and Honors

• Licensed and Practicing Clinical Psychologist
• Previously program director of Clinical PsyD and Clinical PhD at CSPP-AIU, San Diego campus.

Interests and Hobbies

• Travel
• Sports
• Children