To compensate for the difficulties related to scale labels, clinicians should become aware of the current meanings of the scales based on research rather than the meanings implied by the often misleading scale titles.
This approach can be aided in part by using scale numbers rather than titles. For example, Scale 8 suggests attributes such as apathy, feelings of alienation, philosophical interests, poor family relations, and unusual thought processes rather than schizophrenia. It is the clinician's responsibility to determine which of these attributes are most characteristic of the person being evaluated.
Clinicians should also be aware of the relationships among scales as represented by the extensive research performed on two- and three-point code types. Usually, the patterns or profiles of the scales are far more useful and valid than merely considering individual scale elevations.
The extensiveness of research in this area represents what is probably the strongest asset of the MM.PL This volume of work has prevented the MMPI from becoming obsolete and has been instrumental in transforming it from a test of psychiatric classification into a far more wide-band personality inventory.
To compensate for the difficulties related to scale labels, clinicians should become aware of the current meanings of the scales based on research rather than the meanings implied by the often misleading scale titles.
This approach can be aided in part by using scale numbers rather than titles. For example, Scale 8 suggests attributes such as apathy, feelings of alienation, philosophical interests, poor family relations, and unusual thought processes rather than schizophrenia. It is the clinician's responsibility to determine which of these attributes are most characteristic of the person being evaluated.
Clinicians should also be aware of the relationships among scales as represented by the extensive research performed on two- and three-point code types. Usually, the patterns or profiles of the scales are far more useful and valid than merely considering individual scale elevations.
The extensiveness of research in this area represents what is probably the strongest asset of the MM.PL This volume of work has prevented the MMPI from becoming obsolete and has been instrumental in transforming it from a test of psychiatric classification into a far more wide-band personality inventory.
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