4. Review Noteworthy Responses (Critical Items)
The MCMI-III manual (Millon, 1997) has listed a series of Noteworthy Responses in Appendix M (pp. 181–182). These are organized around the topics of Health Preoccupation, Interpersonal Alienation, Emotional Dyscontrol, Self-Destructive Potential, Childhood Abuse, and Eating Disorder(s). Similar to the MMPI critical items, the MCMI’s Noteworthy Responses are not so much formal scales as they are rationally categorized items that might be important for a clinician to more fully understand. Accordingly, they can be used to organize a semistructured interview around relevant responses. They can also be selectively inserted into a psychological report to provide a more concrete qualitative portrayal of the client’s attitudes, affect, and behavior.