MMPI Flashcards
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Purpose
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Measure of emotional adjustment – and test taking approach/ attitude
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Began what tradition of approach for test taking?
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MMPI began tradition of approaching test protocol with a degree of skepticism until individual’s cooperation is assured
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True/False - MMPI-2 has a theoretical orientation
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FALSE
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Developed by…
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Hathaway and McKinley in 1930s
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Original goals of MMPI
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- Goal of obtaining truthful and accurate information about patient’s own symptoms descriptions
- Self-report measure
- Empirical method of personality assessment
- Ushered in a tradition in clinical assessment of personality
- One of first standard assessment methods
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originally developed to…
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- assess clinical problems in objective manner
- Wanted patients to describe their problems honestly through self-report
- MMPI offered something different than other instruments of the day and gave it stamina
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Method of development
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- Selected items for scales by identifying those items that discriminated clinical group from normal group
- Empirical validation
- Included those items that discriminated clinical population from group of “normals”
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Original M-F scale
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Initial intent to distinguish homosexual from heterosexual males
Too few items
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Original Si scale
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(Drake) – to distinguish extroverted females
Later generalized to males and females
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Infl of attitude toward test taking
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- Individuals could alter impression by the way they responded
- Scales developed to evaluate honesty, desire to present favorably or fake symptoms, degree of defensiveness
- Many new scales and subscales added (Harris-Lingoes, Wiggins Content)
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Original norms
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226 male; 315 females
- administtered to 724 pts not under dr care - served as normal reference
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MMPI-2 norms
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nationally representative same of normal individuals (1,138 men and 1,462 women).
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MMPI-2 new scales
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(SAM)
Superlative Self-Presentation (S)
Addition Proneness (APS)
Marital Adjustment (MDS
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Common uses of MMPI-2
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- Evaluation of patients in mental health settings
- Symptom appraisal to determine need for hospitalization
- Assessment of clients in pretreatment planning
- Evaluation of treatment effects
- Personality appraisal for public safety position, such as police, fire, airline pilot and nuclear power plant personnel
- Psychological research to study group differences in personality
- Longitudinal studies of personality processes and change
- Classification of convicted felons at incarceration
- Evaluations of parents in family custody cases
- Appraisal of personality factors to determine whether a personal injury claimant has mental health problems he/she claims
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MMPI-2 - WHO
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18 years old and up
Sixth grade reading level
IQ above 70
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MMPI2 completion time
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60-90 minutes
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MMPI2 number of items
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567
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Upon completion, review protocol sheets for..
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Omitted items
Items marked both T and F
Clean erasures
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Traditional validity and clinical scales can be obtained from administration of first ___ items
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370
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Remaining ___ used for scoring supplementary and content scales
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197
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Raw scores
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Sum of the number of “agreements” between the test responses and the scoring key
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T scores
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Statistically derived standard score equivalents for the raw scores for each scale
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2 types of T scores
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- Linear T scores used on the validity scales
2. Uniform T scores used for clinical scales and content scales except MF and Si
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Linear T score
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linear transformation of raw scores that maintain the underlying distributions of the raw score.
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uniform T score
modification of the linear T score
- ensures that percentile ranks are equivalent across all scales.
- Example: T=65 would fall approximately at the 92nd percentile across all scales.
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Mean and SD of MMPI-2
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M = 50
SD = 10
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T scores interpreted when..
- elevated beyond 1.5 standard deviations above the mean
| - AKA when it is greater than T = 65
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Validity scales
1. Cannot say (?)
2. Variable response inconsistency (VRIN)
3. True responding inconsistency (TRIN)
4. Lie scale (L)
5. Defensiveness scale (K)
6. Superlative self-presentation (S)
7. Infrequency scale (F)
8. Infrequency back scale (Fb)
9. Psychiatric infrequency scale (Fp)
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Cannot say scale (?)
Omitted items.
- Protocol may be uninterpretable.
- 30-item cut off.
- Computer will interpret exact impact of Cannot Say scores on each scale.
- Some scales may be interpretable.
- Content of omitted items can give clues to motivation that could underlie invalidating conditions
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Variable response inconsistency (VRIN)
- total number of items pairs (67) answered inconsistently; measure of inconsistent, random responding.
- Client does not respond to similar items consistently
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True responding inconsistency (TRIN)
- made up of pairs of items (23) that are opposite in content;
- another measure of inconsistent, random responding
- TRIN T score (T>80) client endorsed several items inconsistently in true direction
- TRIN F suggests inconsistent response in false direction
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Lie scale (L)
- Client present self in overly favorable light & exaggerated virtues
- Fake good—highly virtuous self presentation
- T=65 client presenting noncredible & highly virtuous pattern of responding to avoid disclosing problems.
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Two scales detecting when client endorses positive adjustment and denies his/her problems
1. Defensiveness scale (K)
| 2. Superlative Self Presentation Scale (S)
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Defensiveness scale (K)
To test defensiveness and to correct for defensiveness by adding points to certain scales.
- 30 items
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Superlative self presentation (S)
- Improves on K as measure of defensiveness.
- Assess tendency to claim positive attributes and endorse few minor faults or problems.
- 50 items.
- belief in human goodness
- serenity
- contentment with life
- patience and denial of irritability and anger
denial of moral flaws
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Exaggerated symptom endorsement
- clients present problems in exaggerated manner
| - clients feel to his/her advantage to appear psychologically disturbed
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Faking or infrequency scale (F)
- Faking or infrequency scale detects exaggerated responding.
- People who attempt to present more disturbed psychological adjustment.
- Faking bad.
- Falsely claiming mental health symptoms.
- within the first 370 items
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Infrqeuency-back scale (Fb)
Another measure of exaggerated symptoms, usually elevated with F.
- measures sxs on latter part of the test
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Psychiatric infrequency scale (Fp)
- Detects possible malingering of psych symptoms in mental health context.
- Provides an indication of extreme endorsement of symptoms as compared with clients with severe disturbances.
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Number of clinical scales
8
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Standard profile is comprised of
traditional clinical scales
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Guidelines for interpreting clinical scales
- Clinical scales = groups of items that discriminate criterion group from normal group
- cite the scale number rather than the name
- Scale elevations are interpreted in terms of T-score distance from the mean of the normative sample (T=50).
- The higher a scale score, the more like the criterion group the client is assumed to be.
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T = 60-64 (1 SD)...
personality correlatives are considered to apply to the test taker
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T = or > 65
all of the correlates should be applied to the scale as indicated.
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profile definition involves...
how elevated the interpreted clinical scales (high point or high point code) are above the next highest scales
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Typically, low scores on a clinical scale ____ be interpreted.
Any exceptions?
- CANNOT
- Some exceptions--Mf and Si are dimensional personality measures that have meaning as low and high point
- Some of clinical scales (Ma) have meaningful correlates reported
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Very high profile definition
T=/> 10 pts
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high profile definition
T=5 – 9 pts
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Low profile definition
T=/< 4 pts
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Basic clinical scales (10)
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Scale 1 (Hypochondriasis)
Scale 2 (Depression)
Scale 3 (Hysteria)
Scale 4 (Psychopathic Deviate)
Scale 5 (Masculinity-Femininity)
Scale 6 (Paranoia)
Scale 7 (Psychasthenia)
Scale 8 (Schizophrenia)
Scale 9 (Mania)
Scale 0 (Social Introversion)
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Scale 1 (Hs)
- HYPOCHONDRIASIS
- Provides an assessment of somatic problems
- Somatoform disorders – psychological disorder manifested through physical symptoms
- Hypochondriacal complaints – clients tend to develop psychologically based physical complaints
- Clients with high score on Hs tend to report excessive bodily concern in their initial symptom description
- Psychogenic pain disorder
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Scale 2 (D)
- DEPRESSION
- Developed to assess depressed mood or clinical depression
- High scorers report feeling depressed and unhappy, pessimistic about the future
- Self deprecating and feel guilty
- Tend to be nonaggressive, shy, and lacking in self confidence
- Social withdrawal in not uncommon
Indecisive and have difficulty making decisions
- Usually receptive to therapy
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Scale 3 (Hy)
- HYSTERIA (histrionic)
- tendency to report vague physical symptoms and present with somatic symptoms in context of personality features:
- Inability to deal effectively with life stressors
- Usually report little anxiety, tension or depression
- Viewed as psychologically immature, childish, self-centered, narcissistic and ego centric
- Expect a great deal of attention and affection from others
- Difficult to engage in therapy as result of excessive denial and tendency to see themselves in overly positive light
- High Hy clients may respond best to direct advice or suggestions rather than insight oriented therapy
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Scale 4 (Pd)
- PSYCHOPATHIC DEVIATE (ASPD)
- rebellious actions towards authority figures
- stormy relationships with family - acting out behaviors without considering the consequences of their actions
- Tend to blame other people for their problems
- Often have history of underachievement in school, poor work history, marital or relationship problems
- Often have legal problems
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Scale 5 (Mf)
- MASCULINITY/FEMININITY
- No a psychopathology measure;
- does not assess clinical problems
- Addresses issues related to gender role
- Interest scale that appraises traditional male and female roles
- Scale developed for men and scoring of scale is reversed for women
- Assesses individual’s attitude toward interpersonal relationships
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Scale 6 (Pa)
- PARANOIA
- Measures suspicion and mistrust
- Along with personality features of interpersonal hypersensitivity
- Clients with high elevations (T>80) typically show psychotic behavior, disturbed thinking, etc.
- Usually viewed as angry and resentful
- High elevations on Pa tend to have poor prognosis for therapy because they do not discuss their own problems openly
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Scale 7 (Pt)
- PSYCHASTHENIA
- Weakness of one’s mental control over thoughts and actions
- Best viewed as measure of anxiety and general maladjustment
- High scorers are usually anxious, tense, and uncomfortable
- Introspective, ruminative, obsessive, and compulsive at times
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Scale 8 (Sc)
- SZ
- Relative complexity in interpreting this scale
- Not everyone obtaining some elevation on this scale is schizophrenic
- Some elevation may be associated with people who are antisocial or countercultural
- Can also be alienate and disorganized in approach to life
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Scale 9 (Ma)
- MANIA
- Measures manic or hypomanic behavior
Ma assesses lower levels of manic behavior
- T > 80 individual shows disruptive behavior: overactive/scattered behavior and accelerated speech
- 65 < T =/> 70: interpret carefully, some normals obtain score in this range: overactive, energetic, talkative
- T< 35 low scores may reflect problems as well; may have low energy, low activity level and lack interest in life
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Scale 0 (Si)
- SOCIAL INTROVERSION
- Assesses introversion-extroversion
- Dimensional personality measure and can be interpreted throughout the range of scores
- Introversion at high range
- Extroversion at low range
- High scorers (T>65) report being extremely shy and socially introverted
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Harris and Lingoes scales
Subscales determine the components that serve to elevate the scale in question.
Developed for 6 of the clinical scales
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Which 6 clinical scales - Harris/Lingoes
(248-369)
- Depression (2)
- Psychopathic (4)
- Schizophrenia (8)
- Hysteria (3)
- Paranoia (6)
- Hypomania (9)
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Content scales
- 15 content clusters developed using the MMPI-2 items.
- Scales are a measure of the extent to which the person has endorsed the characteristics and problems summarized by the content scale.
- The higher the K elevation, the more likely the client has failed to endorse problem areas on the content scales.
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T scores for content scales
T > 65 = high
| T > 60 = mild
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Content scales grouped into
1. Internal symptomatic bx
2. External bx
3. negative self-view
4. General problem areas
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Internal sypmtomatic bx scales (6)
1. Anxiety (ANX)
2. Fears (FRS)
3. Obsessions (OBS)
4. Depression (DEP)
5. Health Concerns (HEA)
6. Bizarre Mentation (BIZ)
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External Aggressive tendencies scales (4)
1. Anger (ANG)
2. Cynicism (CYN)
3. Antisocial Practices (ASP)
4. Type A (TPA)
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Negative self-views scales (1)
1. Low self-esteem (LSE)
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General Problem Areas:
Social, Family, Work and Treatment
1. Social Discomfort (SOD)
2. Family Problems (FAM)
3. Work Interference (WRK)
4. Negative Treatment Indicators (TRT)
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Content (with component scales when applicable): ANX
Anxiety
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Content (with component scales when applicable): FRS
Fears
1. FRS1 = general
2. FRS2 = multiple specific
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Content (with component scales when applicable): OBS
Obsessiveness
| - OCD
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Content (with component scales when applicable): DEP
Depression
1. DEP1 = Anhedonia
2. DEP2 = Dysphoria
3. DEP3 = Negative self-esteem
4. DEP4 = S/I
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Content (with component scales when applicable): HEA
Health concerns
1. HEA1= GI
2. HEA2 = Neuro
3. HEA3 = general
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Content (with component scales when applicable): BIZ
Bizarre mentation
1. BIZ1 = Psychotic (psychotic)
2. BIZ2 = Schizotypal (Weird)
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Content (with component scales when applicable): SOD
Social discomfort
1. SOD1 = Introversion
2. SOD2 = Shyness
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Content (with component scales when applicable): ANG
Anger
1. ANG1 = Explosive
2. ANG2 = irritable
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Content (with component scales when applicable): ASP
Antisocial practices
1. ASP1 = attitudes
2. ASP2 = Bxs
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Content (with component scales when applicable): TPA
Type A Personality
1. TPA1 = Impatient
2. TPA2 = Competitive
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Content (with component scales when applicable): LSE
Low self-esteem
1. LSE1 = self-doubt
2. LSE2 = submissiveness
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Content (with component scales when applicable): WRK
Work interference
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Content (with component scales when applicable): TRT
Negative Treatment indicators
1. TRT1 = Low motivation
2. TRT2 = Poor ability to disclose
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Content (with component scales when applicable): FAM
Family problems
1. FAM1 = Discord
2. FAM2 = Alienation
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Content (with component scales when applicable): CYN
Cynicism
1. CYN1 = Misanthropic beliefs
2. CYN2 = Interpersonal suspiciousness
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Supplementary scales
1. Anxiety (A)
2. Repression (R)
3. Ego Strength (Es)
4. Dominance (Do)
5. Social Responsibility (Re)
6. College Maladjustment (Mt)
7. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Scale (Pk)
8. Marital Distress Scale (MDS)
9. Hostility (HO)
10. Over-controlled hostility (O-H)
11. MacAndrew Addiction Scale (MAC-R)
12. Addition Potential Scale (APS)
13. Addition Acknowledgement Scale (AAS)
14. Gender role - Male (GM)
15. Gender role - Female (GF)
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Supplementary: A
Anxiety
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Supplementary: R
Repression
| - tend to internalize
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Supplementary: Es
Ego strength
| - responsiveness to tx
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Supplementary: Do
Dominance
| - assertivenes
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Supplementary: Re
Social responsibility
| - moralistic
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Supplementary: Mt
College maladjustment
| - general psychological maladjustment
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Supplementary: Pk
PTSD
- extreme emotional distress
- not nec dx PTSD
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Supplementary: MDS
Marital dissatisfaction scale
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Supplementary: Ho
hostility
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Supplementary: O-H
Over-controlled hosility
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Supplementary: MAC-R
McAndrew Alcoholism Revised Scale
- life-style, risk taking
- interpret RAW score only
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Supplementary: AAS
Addiction Acknowledgement Scale
| - openness to discuss D/A problems
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Supplementary: APS
Addition Potential Scale
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Supplementary: GM
Gender role - Masculine
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Supplementary: GF
Gender role Feminine
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Psy-5 scales
major domains of personality individual differences
1. AGGR
2. PSYC
3. DISC
4. NEGE
5. INTR
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Psy-5: AGGR
Aggressiveness
| - offensive and instrumental aggression
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Psy-5: PSYC
Psychoticism
| - disconnection from reality
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Psy-5: DISC
Disconstraint
| - risk taking, impulsive, acting out
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Psy-5: NEGE
Negative Emotions
| - Neg affect
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Psy-5: INTR
Introversion/Low positive emotionality
| - anxious, depressed, somatic sxs
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Neurotic triad
- Scale 1 (Hs)
- Scale 2 (D)
- Scale 3 (Hy)
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Distress scales
- Scale 2 (D)
| - Scale 7 (Pt)
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Unusual thoughts and depression
- Scale 2 (D)
| - Scale 8 (Sc)
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Somatic and Depression
- Scale 2 (D)
| - SCale 1 (Hs)
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Conversion V
- Elevated Scales 1 and 3
| - scale 2 10+ points lower
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Inhibition scales
- Scale 0 (Si)
- Scale 2 (D)
- Scale 7 (Pt)
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Suppression scales
- 5 (Mf)
| - 0 (Si)
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Acting out (Impulsivity)
- 4 (Pd)
- 9 (Ma)
releaser/excitatory scales
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Internal coping style
- 4 (Pd), 6 (Pa), 9 (Ma) < 2 (D), 7 (Pt), 0 (Si)
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External coping style
- 4 (Pd), 6 (Pa), 9 (Ma) > 2 (D), 7 (Pt), 0 (Si)
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Overcontrol (repression)
Rigid, overcontrol of impulses
- 3 (Hy)
- O-H
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Anger (loss of control)
ANG (content)
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Depression
- 2 (D)
| - Low 9 (Ma)
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Mania
- 9 (Ma)
| - Low 2 (D)
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Psychosis
- 8 (Sc)
- Bizarre mentation
- especially if 8 > 7
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Confusion/disorientation
elevated T on:
- F
- 8 (Sc)
- 7 (Pt)
- Also if 8 clinical scales avg > 70
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Suspicion/mistrust
- 6 (Pa)
| - especially if highest
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Introversion
0 (Si)
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Obsessiveness
- 7 (Pt) especially if highest
| - OBS
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Cynicism
- CYN (content)
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D/A problems
- 4 (Pd)
- 2 (D)
- 7 (Pt)
- MAC-R
- APS
- AAS
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Quality and style of interpersonal relationships
- 0 (Si) = shyness
- SOD = social discomfort
- 1 (Hs) = critical, complaining
- 4 (Pd) = good first impression but superficial
- 6 (Pa) = moralistic, guarded
- 8 (Sc) = isolated, feels misunderstood
- MDS = Marital distress
- Do = Dominance, assertiveness
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Code type
made up of highest elevated scale based on their rank order and profile elevation
- Provides shorthand to “type” of client
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profile spike
single clinical scale is elevated
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2 point code type
two clinical scales are elevated in clinical range (T>65)
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T/F 4 code type is common
FALSE - very rare
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Interpretation - Formulation depends on 3 aspects
1. Acceptability of scores determined by validity indicators
2. Elevation of scores against standards – T-score norms
3. Relative configuration of these within the individual profile
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Interpretation sequence
Before = background info, hx
1. Validity scales
2. Clinical scales
3. Content
4. Content component
5. Supplementary
6. PSY-5
7. Critical items
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MMPI-RF
Restructured form
- Most recent re-standardization (2008)
- 338 items – no new items
- Norms based on MMPI-2
- Can be used more efficiently for medical and forensic cases.
- When/wherever MMPI-2 is used
- Less time for completion
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MMPI-RF scales
51 scales -
- 9 Validity
- 3 Higher Order (H-O)
- 9 Restructured Clinical Scales
- 23 Specific Problems Scales
- 5 Somatic- Cognitive
- 9 Internalizing
- 4 Externalizing
- 5 Interpersonal
- 2 Interest Scales
- 5 PSY-5 Scales
