The preceding topic areas and interpretive strategies are intended to be basic, rule-of-thumb approaches to help guide hypothesis generation around specific areas. There are certainly other relevant areas, but the ones listed can generally be considered the most important. While these guidelines will serve to alert clinicians to specific areas, they will still need to investigate these areas in far more depth by consulting relevant scale descriptors and patterns between scales. Clinicians may also wish to consult one of the MMPI-2/MMPI-A resources listed in the recommended readings to further extend and expand on the meanings of different profiles.