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MMPI-A by Robert P. Archer & W.Grant Dahlstrom
Assessing Adolescent Psychopathology
This revised text serves as a guide to the the MMPI-A Structural Summary approach developed by the author. It reviews the reasons for the development of the MMPI-A and the salient features of this instrument including the validity, content and supplementary scales and the Structural Summary Form.Dr. Archer's 1987 text, "Using the MMPI With Adolescents", served as a comprehensive guide to the use of the original MMPI with teenagers; his 1992 text, "MMPI-A: Assessing Adolescent Psychopathology", received critical reviews as an all-inclusive guide to the use of MMPI-A. As a member of the University of Minnesota Adolescent Project Committee responsible for the development of the MMPI-S, Dr. Archer was qualified to provide an in-depth introduction to this new instrument. This second edition to his guide to the MMPI-A was undertaken in order to include more than 100 new references relevant to test use and to provide an extensive overview of the MMPI-A Structural Summary approach developed by the author to simplify and clarify the interpretation of this test instrument. It also presents facts and recommendations on the MMPI-A for those clinicians, students and researchers interested in fully understanding and utilizing this assessment instrument. The text reviews the reasons for the development of the MMPI-A and the salient features of this instrument including the validity, content and supplementary scales and the MMPI-A Structural Summary Form. MMPI-A single scale and codetype correlates are furnished as well as clinical case examples which illustrate the most recent principles of MMPI-A interpretation. Throughout the text, emphasis is placed on presenting information in a manner that is of direct clinical relevance for the practitioner while also providing sufficient technical information and research data to serve as a guide for future researchers in this field. Additional special features include: presentation of appropriate administration criteria for the MMPI-A - a review of the validity assessment process, including the role of new MMPI-A validity scales; presentation of the MMPI-A Structural Summary form and clinical examples illustrating the use of this interpretive approach - a guide to correlates for individual MMPI-A scales and for a broad range of frequently occurring two-point codetypes, extensive and updated references to document the empirical foundations of the MMPI-A; numerous tables and figures providing guidelines for MMPI-A interpretation; a presentation of adolescent norms for the original MMPI, for the MMPI-A and a specialized set of MMPI-A norms for 13-year-olds; a T-score conversion table for basic MMPI-A scales permitting estimates of the Marks and Briggs (1967) T-score values; appendix materials listing all Lachlar-Wrobel critical items and all Wiggins Content Scale items retained within the MMPI-A; and tabular examples of its content of all MMPI-A basic, content and supplementary scales. |
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| Author(s) : Robert P. Archer | Format : Hardback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0805823433 | ISBN-13 : 9780805823431 |
| RRP : £42.95 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Country Publication : United States
Publication Date : 01/03/1997
Publisher : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc,US
Page Length : 488mm
Page Size : 230mm