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MMPI-A: Assessing Adolescent Psychopathology

• By Robert P. Archer

• Price: $65.00
• Binding: Hardback
• Pages: 456
• Published by: Psychology Press
• Publication Date: 15th April 2005
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-5187-8

About the Book

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:
*presentation of appropriate administration criteria;
*updated references to document the recent development of an increasingly solid empirical foundation--more than 160 new ones;
*extensive review of new MMPI-A scales and subscales including the content component scales and the PSY-5 scales;
*expanded variety of clinical examples; and
*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.

Reviews

Praise for the second edition:

"...the single most comprehensive reference for application of MMPI and MMPI-A to the evaluation of adolescents. Even experienced clinicians will be especially impressed by a series of case studies that demonstrate the value of the MMPI-A in the evaluation of psychiatric patients."
—Contemporary Psychology

"...this is a very thorough, well-written book....thorough and evenhanded in addressing research and clinical issues. It provides a great deal of information about correlates and excellent guidelines regarding how to organize the data and interpret the resulting profile....recommend this book both to professors as a book through which to introduce clinicians in training to the MMPI-A and to professionals seeking a review or reference text on the MMPI-A."
—PsycCRITIQUES

"[It's] fair to say that [it] is the most current, comprehensive, and authoritative MMPI-A guide. [It] places at users' fingertips all the information needed to administer, score, and interpret the MMPI based on the most current knowledge about the test and experience with its use."
—Yossef S. Ben-Porath
From the Foreword

Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword. Preface. Adolescent Development and Psychopathology. Development of the MMPI and the MMPI-A. Administration and Scoring Issues. Validity Scales and Validity Assessment Interpretation. Basic Clinical Scale and Codetype Correlates for Adolescents. Beyond the Basic Scales: Interpreting Additional MMPI-A Scales and Subscales. Use of the MMPI-A in Forensic Evaluations. Interpretive Issues and Strategies. Appendices: Adolescent Norms for the Original MMPI for Males and Females for Ages 14 and Below, 15, 16, and 17. Item Composition for MMPI-A Basic Scales, Harris Lingoes and Si Subscales, Supplementary Scales, and Content Scales. T-Score Conversions for MMPI-A Basic Validity and Clinical Scales, Content and Supplementary Scales, and the Harris-Lingoes and Si Subscales. T-Score Conversions for Basic MMPI-A Scales Permitting Estimates of the Marks and Briggs Adolescent T-Score Values Provided in Dahlstrom, Welsh, and Dahlstrom (1972). Forbey and Ben-Porath MMPI-A Critical Items. Item Composition of the MMPI-A Content Component Scales. Scale-Level Factor Structure for the MMPI-A Normative Sample.

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