CH 11 - Clinical Assessment Objective/Projective Personality Testing Flashcards
Which of the following is NOT a use of clinical assessment?
a. To help clients gain greater insight
b. To aid in case conceptualization and mental health diagnostic formulations
c. To assist in the decision-making concerning the use of psychotropic medications
d. To assist in treatment planning
e. All of these are uses.
E
Which of the following is NOT a use of clinical assessment?
a. To assist in court decisions
b. To identify psychopathology
c. To aid in diagnostic decisions for health related problems (e.g., Alzheimer’s)
d. To identify individuals at risk (e.g., students at risk for suicide)
e. All of these are uses.
E
Which of the following is NOT true about the MMPI?
a. It is the most widely used diagnostic personality test.
b. The MMPI-II has close to 600 items.
c. One should have taken at least a basic graduate testing course and a course in psychopathology to administer
it.
d. An adolescent version has been developed.
e. Its focus is on personality disorders (Axis II disorders of DSM-IV-TR).
E
One of the greatest advantages in using the MMPI-II is which of the following?
a. Its ease in interpretation of the results
b. Its speed of administration (25 minutes or less)
c. Its helpfulness in identifying possible clinical disorders (formerly Axis I) and psychopathology
d. Its helpfulness in identifying possible personality disorders (formerly Axis II)
e. Its helpfulness in identifying personality characteristics of generally mentally healthy and “normal” individuals
C
On the MMPI, which of the following is NOT a validity scale?
a. The B (basic) scale
b. The F (infrequency) scale
c. The K (correction) scale
d. The L (lie) scale
A
Which is true about the Basic Scales of the MMPI-II?
a. They give an indication of the amount of defensiveness, faking good, and faking bad on the test.
b. They offer a mechanism for understanding the etiology of a client’s personality
c. They are useful in diagnosis and treatment planning.
d. Individual subtest scores are generally more important than patterns of scores when making decisions about
clients.
e. All of these are true.
C
Which of the following is NOT true about the Millon-III (the MCMI-III)?
a. It is the second most used objective personality test.
b. It is designed to assess personality disorders (formerly Axis II of DSM-IV) and psychopathology.
c. There is an adolescent version.
d. It generally takes longer to administer as compared to the MMPI-II.
D
Which of the following is NOT a major scale of the Millon?
a. The Clinical Personality Pattern Scales
b. The Neuroticism Scales
c. The Severe Personality Pathology Scales
d. The Clinical Syndrome Scales
e. The Severe Clinical Syndrome Scales
B
The special Corrections Report available with the MCMI-II does which of the following?
a. Describes the examinee’s tendency to “spin” the truth about self
b. Shows probable need for mental health services, anger management services, escape risk from prison, and
suicidal tendencies
c. Provides a correction factor based on the examinee’s defensiveness
d. Provides the standard error of measurement on the test, and thus shows the range of the “true score” of an
individual
e. None of these
B
Which of the following is NOT one of the purposes the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) was designed for?
a. Aid in making a clinical diagnosis
b. Assist in identifying “normal” human behavior
c. Screening for psychopathology
d. Assist in treatment planning
e. All of these
B
Which of the following is true about the MMPI-II and the PAI?
a. The MMPI-II is quicker to administer than the PAI.
b. They both cover clinical disorders (formerly Axis I) only.
c. Only the MMPI-II has validity scales.
d. The PAI may be more effective than the MMPI-II.
e. None of these is true.
D
The Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II):
a. is useful in identifying and assessing the severity of symptoms of depression.
b. is a rather lengthy test that takes about 45 minutes to take.
c. is a test that can be used as the sole criterion for making a diagnosis of depression.
d. uses a standard deviation of 10 and mean of 75 in assessing scores.
e. All of these are characteristics of the BDI-II.
A
Which of the following is NOT true about the BDI-II?
a. Due to its ease of administration, it can be useful to measure progress in therapy.
b. Specific questions seem to be an indication of hopelessness and suicidal ideation.
c. Evidence of reliability is meager.
d. Content and criterion validity were improved for the test by following the DSM-IV criterion of depression.
C
Which of the following is true about the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)?
a. It can be administered and scored in 5 to 10 minutes.
b. Due to its age (created in 1993), the BAI is used infrequently.
c. It can be used with children and adults.
d. Most therapists prefer the computerized version due to the sometimes challenging scoring and interpretation.
A
Which of the following is true about the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and anxiety measurement?
a. Men tend to score higher than women.
b. Older people tend to score higher than younger people.
c. Anxiety instruments correlate high with depression instruments, muddling the distinction between the two
constructs.
d. None of these are true.
C
