1st Edition

The Clinical Interpretation of MMPI-2 A Content Cluster Approach

By Edward E. Gotts, Thomas E. Knudsen Copyright 2005
302 Pages
by Routledge

302 Pages
by Routledge

302 Pages
by Routledge

In a managed care era, the MMPI-2 is becoming an overloaded workhorse, required to generate more and more of the assessments that a battery of instruments once did. Though all now rely on the MMPI-2 for good reasons, and the MMPI has fallen out of use entirely, some important and clinically useful scales were lost in the transition. Edward Gotts and Thomas Knudsen have recovered these scales and... Read more
Contents: Preface. Guide to Scale Names Referenced in Text. A Content Cluster Approach to MMPI-2 Interpretation. Assessing the Quality of the Test Record: The Validity and Response Style Scales. Status of the Basic Scales. Synopsis of the Special Scales: Sources and Interpretation. Overview and Results of a Clinical Research Program. Renewing the Old: Scale Recoveries and Losses. New Developments for MMPI-2. The DSM and Axis I Conditions. Clusters, Personality Traits, and Disorders. Prognosis and Risk Management Scales. Conjoint MMPI-2 and Rorschach Interpretation. Interpreting the Individual MMPI-2 Record. Appendices.

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Edward E. Gotts, Thomas E. Knudsen