Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret the MMPI-A(TM) The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A(TM)) is the most widely used objective personality assessment instrument with adolescents. Essentials of MMPI-A(TM) Assessment provides an authoritative source of information and guidance to maximize the clinical information yielded from this important instrument. The book is designed to provide fundamental information concerning the procedures necessary to administer, score, interpret, and report findings from the MMPI-A(TM). Each chapter features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as test questions that enable the reader to evaluate their grasp of principles and procedures. Important interpretive principles and approaches are underscored by the use of several clinical case examples. Essentials of MMPI-A(TM) Assessment offers step-by-step guidance for the clinical application of this instrument in varied settings. The book also provides an overview of the relative strengths and weaknesses of this popular assessment instrument, and an overview and illustration of the MMPI-A(TM) Structural Summary approach to test interpretation. This text provides a concise, convenient, and complete introduction to the MMPI-A(TM). Other titles in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series: Essentials of WJ IIITM Tests of Achievement Assessment Essentials of WJ IIITM Cognitive Abilities Assessment Essentials of Rorschach Assessment Essentials of WISC-III and WPPSI-R Assessment Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment Essentials of Nonverbal Assessment Essentials of Cognitive Assessment with KAIT and Other Kaufman Measures Essentials of NEPSY Assessment For a complete list of books in our Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, visit us on the Web at: www.essentials.wiley.com

Essentials of MMPI-A Assessment (Essentials of Psychological Assessment Series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Archer, Robert P.

Radhika Krishnamurthy

Mental Health

wiley

Therapy intervention which is brief and focused on specific developmental crises and passages is increasingly necessary in the face of shrinking financial support and government policy. Brief psychotherapy is a specifically developed skill. Brief Psychotherapy presents the therapist with a working knowledge of the forms of brief psychotherapy, techniques and strategies. Several major orientations and therapeutic contexts are considered. Other issues addressed include the type of crucial choices the therapist must make during therapy.

Brief Psychotherapies: Changing Frames of Mind

Borduin, Charles M.

Peake, Thomas H.

Psychology & Counseling

Sage Publications, Inc.

Dr. Archer's 1987 text, Using the MMPI With Adolescents, received outstanding critical reviews and served as a comprehensive guide to the application of the original MMPI with teenagers. This text included a series of practical recommendations concerning the interpretive practices uniquely suited for this age group. The University of Minnesota Press has recently developed the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory - Adolescent (MMPI-A) which represents the first revision of the MMPI for use specifically with adolescents. As a member of the University of Minnesota Adolescent Project Committee responsible for the development of the MMPI-A, Dr. Archer is uniquely qualified to provide an in-depth introduction to this new instrument. The MMPI-A features the release of new dolescent norms based on a contemporary sample of 1620 adolescents, the revision of many traditional items to increase readability and relevance to adolescent development and psychopathology, and the inclusion of new items and scales. This guide was written to provide facts and recommendations on the essential features of the MMPI-A for those clinicians, students, and researchers interested in understanding and using this new instrument. The text reviews the reasons for the development of the MMPI-A, and discusses its salient features including new validity, content, and supplementary scales. MMPI-A single-scale and codetype correlates are presented, as well as clinical case examples illustrating interpretive principles. Throughout this book, emphasis is placed on presenting information that is of direct clinical relevance for practitioners, while also providing sufficient technical information and research data to serve as a guide for research efforts in this field.

MMPI-A: Assessing Adolescent Psychopathology

Accelerated Dev

Half a century after the collapse of the Nazi regime and the Third Reich, scholars from a range of fields continue to examine the causes of Nazi Germany. An increasing number of young Americans are attempting to understand the circumstances that led to the rise of the Nazi party and the subsequent Holocaust, as well as the implication such events may have for today as the world faces a resurgence of neo-Nazism, ethnic warfare, and genocide. In the months following World War II, extensive psychiatric and psychological testing was performed on over 200 Nazis in an effort to understand the key personalities of the Third Reich and of those individuals who "just followed orders." In addressing these issues, the current volume examines the strange history of over 200 Rorschach Inkblot protocols that were administered to Nazi war criminals and answers such questions as: * Why the long delay in publishing protocols? * What caused such jealousies among the principals? * How should the protocols be interpreted? * Were the Nazis monsters or ordinary human beings? This text delivers a definitive and comprehensive study of the psychological functioning of Nazi war criminals -- both the elite and the rank-and-file. In order to apply a fresh perspective to understanding the causes that created such antisocial behavior, these analyses lead to a discussion within the context of previous work done in social and clinical psychology. Subjects discussed include the authoritarian personality, altruism, obedience to authority, diffusion of responsibility, and moral indifference. The implications for current political events are also examined as Neo-Nazism, anti-Semitism, and ethnic hate are once again on the rise. While the book does contain some technical material relating to the psychological interpretations, it is intended to be a scholarly presentation written in a narrative style. No prior knowledge of psychological testing is necessary, but it should be of great benefit for those interested in the Rorschach Inkblot test, or with a special interest in psychological testing, personality assessment, and the history of psychology. It is also intended for readers with a broad interest in Nazi Germany.

The Quest for the Nazi Personality: A Psychological Investigation of Nazi War Criminals (Personality and Clinical Psychology)

Zillmer, Eric A.

Harrower, Molly

Ritzler, Barry A.

Routledge

This second edition was undertaken to include more than 100 new references relevant to test use and provide an extensive overview of the MMPI-A Structural Summary approach developed by the author to simplify and clarify the interpretation of this test instrument. It also presents essential facts and recommendations on the MMPI-A for those clinicians, students, and researchers interested in fully understanding and utilizing this assessment instrument. The text reviews the reasons for the development of the MMPI-A and the salient features of this instrument including the validity, content, and supplementary scales and the MMPI-A Structural Summary Form. MMPI-A single scale and codetype correlates are furnished as well as clinical case examples which illustrate the most recent principles of MMPI-A interpretation. Throughout the text, emphasis is placed on presenting information in a manner that is of direct clinical relevance for the practitioner while also providing sufficient technical information and research data to serve as a guide for future researchers in this field. Additional special features include: * presentation of appropriate administration criteria for the MMPI-A; * a review of the validity assessment process, including the role of the new MMPI-A validity scales; * presentation of the MMPI-A Structural Summary form and clinical examples illustrating the use of this interpretive approach; * a rich guide to correlates for individual MMPI-A scales and for a broad range of frequently occurring two-point codetypes; * extensive and updated references to document the empirical foundations of the MMPI-A; * numerous tables and figures providing guidelines for MMPI-A interpretation; * a presentation of adolescent norms for the original MMPI, for the MMPI-A, and a specialized set of MMPI-A norms for 13-year olds; * a T-score conversion table for basic MMPI-A scales permitting estimates of the Marks and Briggs (1967) T-score values; * appendix materials listing all Lachar-Wrobel critical items and all Wiggins Content Scale items retained within the MMPI-A; and * tabular examples of item content of all MMPI-A basic, content, and supplementary scales.

This third edition of Robert Archer's classic step-by-step guide to the MMPI-A continues the tradition of the first two in presenting the essential facts and recommendations for students, clinicians, and researchers interested in understanding and utilizing this assessment instrument to its fullest. Special features of the third edition include: <ul>
<li>presentation of appropriate administration criteria;</li> <li>updated references to document the recent development of an increasingly solid empirical foundation--more than 160 new ones;</li> <li>extensive review of new MMPI-A scales and subscales including the content component scales and the PSY-5 scales;</li> <li>expanded variety of clinical examples; and</li> <li>a new chapter on the rapidly expanding forensic uses of the MMPI-A, including those in correctional facilities and in custody or personal injury evaluations. 
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Series: Personality Assessment Loose Leaf: 326 pages Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum; 1 edition (March 1987) Like new except former owner's name on inside cover and 3-4 pencil underlines in first chapter, otherwise absolutely clean and unmarked hardback. Ships from VA with delivery confirmation.

Using the MMPI with Adolescents (Personality Assessment)

Lawrence Erlbaum

Mmpi-A Casebook

Krishnamurthy, Radhika

Jacobson, Jody M.

Psychological Assessment Resources

Assessing Adolescent Psychopathology: MMPI-A / MMPI-A-RF, Fourth Edition

Assessing Adolescent Psychopathology: MMPI-A / MMPI-A-RF, Fourth Edition provides updated recommendations for researchers and clinicians concerning the MMPI-A, the most widely used objective personality test with adolescents, and also introduces the MMPI-A-Restructured Form (MMPI-A-RF), the newest form of the MMPI for use with adolescents. Further, this fourth edition includes comprehensive information on both MMPI forms for adolescents, including descriptions of the development, structure, and interpretive approaches to the MMPI-A and the MMPI-A-RF. This text provides extensive clinical case examples of the interpretation of both tests, including samples of computer based test package output, and identifies important areas of similarities and differences between these two important tests of adolescent psychopathology.

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Essentials of MMPI-A Assessment (Essentials of Psychological Assessment Series)

Brief Psychotherapies: Changing Frames of Mind

MMPI-A: Assessing Adolescent Psychopathology

The Quest for the Nazi Personality: A Psychological Investigation of Nazi War Criminals (Personality and Clinical Psychology)

MMPI-A: Assessing Adolescent Psychopathology

MMPI-A: Assessing Adolescent Psychopathology

Using the MMPI with Adolescents (Personality Assessment)

Mmpi-A Casebook

Assessing Adolescent Psychopathology: MMPI-A / MMPI-A-RF, Fourth Edition

Assessing Adolescent Psychopathology: MMPI-A / MMPI-A-RF, Fourth Edition