MMPI-2: Assessing Personality and Psychopathology - Hardcover

Graham, John R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195079221 ISBN 13: 9780195079227

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1993

Synopsis

Four years after the introduction of the revised Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, the MMPI-2 is regarded throughout the world as a unique, invaluable instrument. Completely revised and updated, MMPI-2: Assessing Personality and Psychopathology, Second Edition encompasses all that has been learned about the original and revised tests. An interpretive strategy is presented and illustrated with several cases. A new section has been added concerning how feedback on MMPI-2 results should be presented to clients. The chapter on supplementary scales includes information about two new alcohol abuse scales and a marital distress scale. The book critically analyzes the use of the MMPI-2 with special groups, such as older adults, ethnic minorities, medical patients, correctional subjects, and subjects in nonclinical settings. An expanded chapter addresses the psychometric characteristics of the original MMPI and of the MMPI-2 and includes information concerning comparability of the two tests. Computerized use of the MMPI-2 is considered and a computerized interpretation is compared with a clinician-generated interpretation. The development of the MMPI-A, the adolescent version of the test, is presented along with a detailed approach to interpreting the results of this new test. This book is essential to students in personality assessment courses learning about the MMPI-2 and MMPI-A as well as to professionals who use these two tests in research and clinical work.

About this title

About the Author:

John R. Graham, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair in the Department of Psychology at Kent State University. A recognized authority on the MMPI, MMPI-2, and MMPI-A, Dr. Graham was a key contributor to the development of MMPI-2 and the MMPI-A. He is the author of The MMPI: A Practical Guide (oxford University Press, 1977, 1987) and the co-author of Psychological Testing, Development and Use of the MMPI-2 Content Scales, and MMPI-A Content Scales: Assessing Pyschopathology in Adolescents.

Review:

The author has produced a very thorough yet readable, accessible book with helpful additions in this latest edition. This book is an uncritical guide both for clinicians and researchers working within the personality assessment domain, and for graduates wishing to learn more about this widely used test. * Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy *

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0195079221
• ISBN 13: 9780195079227
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 416