Adults Assessment

Question 1

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

MH1, CP1, A6

Answer 1

Age: 18 and older

Measures: psychopathology and functioning.

Related Issues: borderline, depressed mood, eating disorders, homicidal behavior, manifest aggression, victimization by incest and sexual abuse, sleeping problems, physical disabilities, and schizophrenia.

Question 2

Bender Gestalt

MH3, CPS, A3

Answer 2

Age: Children and Adults - 4 to 45.

Measures: Measures visual motor integration skills.

Related issues: Mental retardation, disabilities, reading difficulties, personality dynamics, brain abnormality, psychotic dysfunctioning, anxiety, psychosomatic conditions, sexual disturbances, cultural differences, alcoholism.

Question 3

Beck Depression Inventory

MH12, A11

Answer 3

Age: 13 and older

Measures: Severity of depression

Assists in diagnosing disorders from panic to schizophrenia.

Question 4

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-R (MH2, CP6)

Answer 4

Age: Older adolescents and adults.

Measures: Cognitive ability.

IQ test.

Question 5

Wechsler Intelligence Scales (A2)

Answer 5

Age: Adolescent - 6-16

Measures: Cognitive ability

IQ test.

Question 6

Sentence Completion (MH6, CP4, A 4)

Answer 6

Given a sentence to complete by stating what comes to mind first.

Question 7

Rorschach Inkblot Test (MH8, CP10.5, A2)

Answer 7

Interpretations of inkblots are analyzed.

Used to examine personality characteristics and emotional functioning to identify an underlying thought disorder.

Question 8

Thematic Apperception Test (MH10, CP9, A4)

Answer 8

Proponents of the technique assert that subjects’ responses, in the narratives they make up about ambiguous pictures of people, reveal their underlying motives, concerns, and the way they see the social world.

Question 9

Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (I & II)
(MCMII-III)
(MH19, A12)

Answer 9

This test provides support for the opinions of mental health professionals in clinical counseling, medical, forensic, and other settings. It was designed to measure personality traits and psychopathology and used for clinical decision making.

Dx: Anxiety, Somatoform, Bipolar: Manic, Dysthymia, Alcohol Dependence, Drug Dependence, Posttraumatic
Stress Disorder, Thought Disorder (Schizophrenia, Schizophreniform), Major Depression, and Delusional Disorder.

Personality disorders.

Question 10

MacAndrew Alcoholism Scale (A13)

Answer 10

Screen for alcoholism.

Question 11

Children’s depression Inventory (MH30)

Answer 11

Age: 7-17
Scales: MDD, Dysthymia, depressive disorder NOS and adjustment.

Question 12

Symptom Checklist-90R (MH29)

Answer 12

Self report questionnaire to evaluate psychological problems and symptoms of psychopathology.

Age: 13 and older.

Question 13

Neuropsychology II

Nepsy-II

Answer 13

Age: 3-16

Assess neuropsychological development.