Essentials of MMPI-A assessment / Robert P. Archer, Radhika Krishnamurthy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Archer, Robert P.

Contributor:

Krishnamurthy, Radhika.

Series:

Essentials of psychological assessment series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory for Adolescents.

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.

Physical Description:

xii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Essentials of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent assessment

Place of Publication:

New York : Wiley, [2002]

Summary:

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory -- Adolescent (MMPI-A) is the most widely used objective personality assessment instrument with adolescents. Essentials of MMPI-A Assessment provides an authoritative source of information and guidance to maximize the clinical information yielded from this important instrument. The book is designed to provide fundamental information concerning the procedures necessary to administer, score, interpret, and report findings from the MMPI-A. Each chapter features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as test questions that enable the reader to evaluate their grasp of principles and procedures. Important interpretive principles and approaches are underscored by the use of several clinical case examples.

Essentials of MMPI-A Assessment offers step-by-step guidance for the clinical application of this instrument in varied settings. The book also provides an overview of the relative strengths and weaknesses of this popular assessment instrument, and an overview and illustration of the MMPI-A Structural Summary approach to test interpretation. This text provides a concise, convenient, and complete introduction to the MMPI-A.

Contents:

2 How to Administer the MMPI-A 21

3 How to Score the MMPI-A 36

4 How to Interpret the MMPI-A 57

5 Strengths and Weaknesses of the MMPI-A 128

6 Clinical Applications of the MMPI-A 145

7 Illustrative Case Reports 169

Appendix A Item Composition of MMPI-A Scales and Subscales 228

Appendix B T-score Conversions for MMPI-A Scales and Subscales 249.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-279) and index.

ISBN:

0471398152

OCLC:

47255216

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