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MCMI-III Flashcards

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Based on

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Millon’s(1990) evolutionary theory of personality disorders

- DIMENSIONAL model

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Millon believed that personality disorders

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  • regard the entire matrix of the person
  • are intrinsically multioperational phenomena
  • are expressed across domains or perspectives
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MCMI items validated

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    • rationally, internally, and externally
  • consistent with theory
  • homogeneous, internal validity
  • predictive and clinical validity
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Base rates

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  • diagnoses number of individuals equal to number that actually have disorder in normative sample
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MCMI-III scales standardized as base rates (BR) scores

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range from 0 to 115

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BR scores =/> 75

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indicate presence of clinically significant personality style or syndrome, i.e., met criteria for disorder

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BR scores =/> 85 indicate

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particular personality style or syndrome is prominent for the individual; i.e., primary problem

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BR score of 60

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represents the median for all patients

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Scale categories

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  1. Modifying indices
  2. Clinical personality patterns
  3. Severe personality patterns
  4. Clinical syndromes
  5. Severe syndromes
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Modifying indices

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Provide a validity indicator and clues to test taking attitudes including careless responding, over-reporting, under-reporting, and social desirability

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Clinical personality patterns

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Corresponds to 11 DSM-IV personality disorder diagnosis and assess dimensions of construct as defined by Million’s theory of personality

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Severe personality problems

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Represents more severe levels of pathology

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Clinical syndromes

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Axis I syndromes viewed as distortions of client’s basis personality patterns.
- Seen as reactive and often precipitated by external events and are of more brief duration than the personality disorders

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Severe clinical syndromes

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More severe syndromes than the clinical syndromes

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Steps to interpretation

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  1. Determine profile validity
  2. Interpret the Personality Disorder Scales
  3. Interpret Clinical Syndrome Scales
  4. Review noteworthy responses
  5. Provide diagnostic impressions
  6. Write a personality description
  7. Treatment implications and
  8. Recommendations
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Determine profile validity

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Scale V (Validity Index)
Scale X (Disclosure Index)
Scale Y - (Desirability Index)
Scale Z (Debasement Index)
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Scale V

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Validity index
Items 65, 110, 157
2 or more true responses - invalid profile
1 true response - “questionable validity”

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Scale X

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Disclosure index
Validity
If raw score is below 34 - invalid and defensive underreporting
If raw score is above 178 - invalid and exaggeration of symptoms

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Scale Y

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Defensiveness index

  • Measure of defensive responding
  • BR above 75 (not necessarily invalid) indicates presenting self in an overly positive, moral, emotionally stable, gregarious manner – “faking good”
  • the higher the score, the more the person is concealing
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Scale Z

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Debasement index

  • Opposite from Desirability Index
  • BR above 75 - self description is negative, pathological
  • Above 85 - could be a cry for help
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Severe personality patterns scales (3)

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  1. Scale S (Schizotypal)
  2. Scale C (Borderline)
  3. Scale P (paranoid)
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Severe personality pathology

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personality styles reflect deeply etched and pervasive characteristics of functioning that perpetuate and aggravate everyday difficulties

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Clinical personality patterns (11)

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  • Axis II prototypes
    1. Scale 1 (Schizoid)
    2. Scale 2A: Avoidant
    3. Scale 2B: Depressive
    4. Scale 3 (Dependent)
    5. Scale 4 (Histrionic)
    6. Scale 5 (Narcissistic)
    7. Scale 6A (Antisocial)
    8. Scale 6B (Aggressive-Sadistic)
    9. Scale 7 (Compulsive)
    10. Scale 8A (Passive- Aggressive- Negativistic)
    11. Scale 8B (Self-Defeating-Masochistic)
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Clinical syndromes

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- Axis I
Scale A (Anxiety)
Scale H (Somatoform)
Scale N (Bipolar – Manic)
Scale D (Dysthmia)
Scale B (Alcohol Dependence)
Scale T (Drug Dependence)
Scale R (PTSD)
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Severe clinical syndromes

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SS (Thought disorder)
CC (Major depression)
PP (Delusional disorder)

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Grossman-facet scales

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provide more fine-grained view of constructs measured by the 11 clinical personality patterns and three severe personality pathology patterns

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Grossman-facet scales - interpret ONLY

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only personality scale w BR > 65

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Scale 6B

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Aggressive-sadistic

  • Gets pleasure by humiliating and violating others’ rights
  • Hostile and combative
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Scale 7

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Compulsive

- Coincides with DSM IV Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

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Scale 8A

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Negativistic

Passive-Aggressive personality disorder

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Scale 8B

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Self-defeating masochistic
Like DSM III-R self defeating –masochistic personality disorder
- Place themselves in the victim role

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Scale SS

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Thought disorder
- disorganized
(SS = Similar to Sz)

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Scale CC

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major depression

- MDD

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Scale PP

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  • Delusional D/o

PP = Paranoid Person

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