Chapter 10 Flashcards
Multimethod assessment
No measure is perfect
– Each method offers unique perspective
Evidence-based assessment
Assessments with strong psychometrics – reliability,
validity, clinical utility, sufficient normative data, sensitive to
diversity
– Continued subjective decision-making and clinical judgement
Culturally competent assessment
Understanding the meaning of behaviour within cultural
context to avoid overpathologizing
– Test & service delivery bias
– Culturally specific norms
Objective Personality Tests
Tests are objectively scored.
Most often questionnaires involve a series of direct options (ie. T/F or M/C)
Completed with paper & pencil or on computer
Produce a profile
Types of Objective Personality Tests
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
Personality Assessment Inventory
Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-IV
MMPI
Most popular and most psychometrically sound objective personality test.
Used in many countries/cultures.
500 items- time consuming
Personality Assessment Inventory
PAI-A: adolescent version.
Multiple validity scales – test-taking attitudes
11 clinical scales
true-slightly true, false-slighly false, etc
Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-IV
Versions for adults & adolescents
Modifier indices (similar to validity scales)
Clinical personality patterns, severe personality, clinical syndromes, severe clinical syndromes
Comprehensive personality test in a self-report format.
Separate Millon personality inventories.
Theodore Millon: scholar on personality disorders.
Reliability and validity are strong.
NEO Personality Inventory-3
Original – 1985 by Costa & McCrae
Self-report questionnaire that assesses common personality characteristics.
NEO-PI-3 produces 30 “facet” scores.
No validity scales
Five-factor model of personality.
Based on the 5 factor model of personality -Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness to Experienc
Not giving disorders
high scores can correlate with personality disorder BUT WE CAN NOT use to diagnose anyone with it
Performance-Based Personality Tests
Assessments based on assumption people will “project” their personalities.
Limitations.
Lack objectivity
To inferential to be empirically sound
Strength.
Not as “fake-able”
what are some Performance-Based Personality Tests
Rorschach Inkblot Method
Thematic Apperception Test
Sentence Completion Tests
Rorschach
Locations of what they SAW on the card in what spots
Distortions (if you can see what they are seeing in the card) client not giving common responses so can you see it too or not
Are they seeing movement or not
client make sense on the inkblot connects to their own life
meta analysis- demonstrated validity to certain eras- psychoticism what is the clinical utility comparing to use the objective test
Thematic Apperception Test
By Murray and Morgan
Assessment that involves presenting client with a series of cards.
Strength may lie in ability to measure relationship tendencies.
Often analyzed without formal scoring.
Thematic Apperception Test
Children’s Apperception Test (CAT).
Senior Apperception Test (SAT).
The Tell-Me-a-Story (TEMAS) apperception test.
Sentence Completion Tests
Ambiguous stimuli are the beginnings of sentences.
Assumes clients’ personalities are revealed by the endings they add and the sentences they create.
Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank (RISB).
