Evaluate participants in substance abuse programmes and select appropriate treatment approaches.Assess medical patients and design effective treatment strategies, including chronic pain management.Give a strong empirical foundation for a clinician’s expert testimony.Support classification, treatment and management decisions in criminal justice and correctional settings.Identify suitable candidates for high-risk public safety positions.Identify appropriate treatment strategies and potential difficulties with treatment early in the assessment process.Assess major symptoms of social and personal maladjustment.The MMPI-2 can be used for the following purposes: It has been found particularly useful in neuropsychological assessments. The FBS has recently been included in the Extended Score Report and hand-scoring materials. The Validity Indicators and Superlative Self-Presentation Subscales: These indicate the validity of the profile, and include the Fake Bad Scale (FBS).Supplementary Scales: focus on adding to the interpretation of the validity and clinical scales.
Content Component Scales: With the Content Component Scales, the subscales of the Content Scales are taken into consideration to provide a refinement of them.Content Scales: These scales provide contents and contexts of the self-report responses of the individual.These scales contribute to the clinical descriptions of the basic scales providing a specific underlying theme. Clinical Subscales: The Harris-Lingoes Subscales and Social Introversion Subscales sort under the Clinical Subscales.Restructured Clinical Scales: These scales preserve the valuable descriptive features of the existing MMPI-2 Clinical Scales and enhance their distinctiveness. Clinical Scales: Provide the clinician with information on possible psychological/mental health problems.The MMPI-2 includes the following scales (not all the scales are included in every report): Used by clinicians to assist with the diagnosis of mental disorders and the selection of appropriate treatment methods, the MMPI-2 continues to help meet the assessment needs of mental health professionals in an ever-changing environment. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) remains the most widely used and widely researched assessment of adult psychopathology.
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