MMPI-A: Assessing Adolescent Psychopathology - Hardcover

Archer, Robert P.

9780805811131: MMPI-A: Assessing Adolescent Psychopathology

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805811133 ISBN 13: 9780805811131

Publisher: Accelerated Dev, 1992

Dr. Archer's 1987 text, Using the MMPI With Adolescents, received outstanding critical reviews and served as a comprehensive guide to the application of the original MMPI with teenagers. This text included a series of practical recommendations concerning the interpretive practices uniquely suited for this age group. The University of Minnesota Press has recently developed the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory - Adolescent (MMPI-A) which represents the first revision of the MMPI for use specifically with adolescents. As a member of the University of Minnesota Adolescent Project Committee responsible for the development of the MMPI-A, Dr. Archer is uniquely qualified to provide an in-depth introduction to this new instrument. The MMPI-A features the release of new dolescent norms based on a contemporary sample of 1620 adolescents, the revision of many traditional items to increase readability and relevance to adolescent development and psychopathology, and the inclusion of new items and scales.

This guide was written to provide facts and recommendations on the essential features of the MMPI-A for those clinicians, students, and researchers interested in understanding and using this new instrument. The text reviews the reasons for the development of the MMPI-A, and discusses its salient features including new validity, content, and supplementary scales. MMPI-A single-scale and codetype correlates are presented, as well as clinical case examples illustrating interpretive principles. Throughout this book, emphasis is placed on presenting information that is of direct clinical relevance for practitioners, while also providing sufficient technical information and research data to serve as a guide for research efforts in this field.

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About the Author:

Robert P. Archer, Ph.D., ABPP, is Professor and Director of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Eastern Virginia Medical School. The author of over 100 articles and book chapters on psychological assessment and coauthor of The MMPI-A Casebook (PAR, 1994), he served on the committee advising the University of Minnesota Press on the development of the MMPI-A and coauthored the manual. He was Founding Editor of the journal Assessment and Associate Editor of the Journal of Personality Assessment.

Review:

Praise for the second edition:

"...the single most comprehensive reference for application of MMPI and MMPI-A to the evaluation of adolescents. Even experienced clinicians will be especially impressed by a series of case studies that demonstrate the value of the MMPI-A in the evaluation of psychiatric patients."
―Contemporary Psychology

"...this is a very thorough, well-written book....thorough and evenhanded in addressing research and clinical issues. It provides a great deal of information about correlates and excellent guidelines regarding how to organize the data and interpret the resulting profile....recommend this book both to professors as a book through which to introduce clinicians in training to the MMPI-A and to professionals seeking a review or reference text on the MMPI-A."
―PsycCRITIQUES

"[It's] fair to say that [it] is the most current, comprehensive, and authoritative MMPI-A guide. [It] places at users' fingertips all the information needed to administer, score, and interpret the MMPI based on the most current knowledge about the test and experience with its use."
―Yossef S. Ben-Porath
From the Foreword

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