Federal and state agencies

Building the best team for the assignment  

Pearson has partnered with federal, state, and local government agencies to support them across a range of needs from personnel selection for high-risk, high-security positions to direct delivery of mental health and wellness assessments.  

Examples of the government agencies we serve: 

  • Bureau of Indian Affairs
  • Bureau of Indian Education 
  • Central Intelligence Agency
  • Department of Energy
  • Drug Enforcement Agency 
  • Federal Aviation Administration 
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation

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Our consultant can help you develop an assessment-based plan to find the right personnel and support them throughout their high-stress, high-security careers. 

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The MPQ is coming soon!

The Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ) will be available in November as a new normal-range personality test for use in police and public safety preemployment screening.

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Government & public safety

Product domain highlights

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Popular products for government agencies

MMPI-3

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory®, Third Edition is the leading measure for personnel selection, providing an empirically validated, psychometrically up-to-date standard of psychological assessment. 

WAIS-IV

The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale®, Fourth Edition is the most advanced adult measure of cognitive ability used to assess general cognitive abilities.

TEA

The Test of Everyday Attention evaluates cognitive wellness and measures three aspects of attention — selective attention, sustained attention, and attentional switching — using everyday materials.

Beck Scales

The Beck® Scales for depression, anxiety, hopelessness, and suicide are used to recognize, predict, and intervene for affective distress and suicide risk.

RBMT-3

The Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test, Third Edition is a highly sensitive, ecological test of gross memory impairment that measures cognitive wellness and memory functioning.

MCMI-IV

The Millon® Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-IV provides clinicians with an in-depth analysis of personality and symptom dynamics and includes action-oriented suggestions for therapeutic management.

Other agencies resources

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Developmental trauma and vulnerability to PTSD

This webinar discusses developmental trauma and vulnerability to PTSD.

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