Chapter 10 Flashcards
core issues in personality and behavioral assessment
- multimodal assessment
- objective personality tests
- projective personality tests
- behavioral assessment
- no measure of personality and/or behavior is perfect
- do not rely on single or exclusive assessment method
- use tests of different types, interview data, observation
multimethod assessment
selecting test that have sufficient normative data and are sensitive to issues of diversity such as age, gender, race, and ethnicity
evidence-based assessment
treatments that work
evidence-based practice/treatments
tests that work
evidence-based assessment
every culture has its own definitions of “normal” and “abnormal”
culturally competent assessment
- include unambiguous/clear-cut test items
- offer clients a limited range of responses
- objectively scored
objective personality tests
types of objective tests:
- MMPI-2
- MCMI-III
- NEO-PI-R
- CPI-III or CPI-434
- BDI-II
- most popular and most psychometrically sound objective personality test
- 567 self-descriptive sentences
- clients mark true or false for each
MMPI-2 (Minessota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2)
MMPI and MMPI-2 feature ____ clinical scales
10
10 clinical scales of MMPI & MMPI-2
- hypochondriasis
- depression
- hysteria
- psychopathic deviate
- masculinity / femininity
- paranoia
- psychasthenia
- schizophrenia
- mania
- social introversion
validity scales of MMPI
- ? scales (cannot say)
- F scales (infrequency)
- Fb scales (back-page infrequency)
- L scales (lie)
- K scales (defensiveness)
- VRIN scales (Variable Response Inconsistency)
- TRIN scales (True Response Inconsistency)
most recent edition of MMPI that is briefer, less overlap between clinical scales
MMPI-2-RF
- comprehensive objective personality test
- emphasizes personality disorders
- 175 items
- clinical scales are based on DSM personality disorders
MCMI-III (Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III)
- measures “normal” personality traits
- based on 5-factor model of personality
- 240 items
NEO-PI-R (NEO Personality Inventory - Revised)
- emphasizes positive attributes of personality (strengths, assets, internal resources)
- consistent with recent positive psychology movement
- 20 scales
- 434 items
CPI-III (California Psychological Inventory - III) or CPI-434
- brief, targeted measure of one characteristic (depression symptoms)
- 21 items
BDI-II (beck depression inventory-II)
based on the assumption that clients will “project” their personalities when presented with unstructured, ambiguous stimuli and an unrestricted opportunity to respond
projective personality tests
types of projective tests
- rorschach inkblot method
- thematic apperception test
- tell-me-a-story
- sentence completion tests
- 10 inkblots are presented
- has a response and inquiry phase
rorschach inkblot method
most widely used scoring system in rorschach inkblot method
exner’s comprehensive system
- 31 cards that feature interpersonal scenes
- clients tells a story to go along with each scene
- often, not empirically scored
thematic apperception test
- recent TAT-style test
- for children and adolescent
- greater emphasis on cultural sensitivity
- greater emphasis on empirical scoring via normative data
tell-me-a-story
- ambiguous stimuli are beginnings of sentence
- rotter incomplete sentence blank (RISB) is most widely used
sentence completion tests
