Twenty-eight scales are divided into 5 categories: modifying indices; clinical personality patterns; severe personality pathology; clinical syndrome; severe syndrome. Modifying indices are consisted of validity index (scale V), which detects random or deviant responses (3 items), disclosure index (scale X), which detects openness or secretiveness of the client’s responses (the raw score of the clinical personality patterns) , desirability index (scale Y), which measures the client’s tendency to adopt a socially positive image (21 items), and debasement (scale Z), which measures the client’s attempt to appear socially negative or emotionally disturbed (33 items). Clinical personality patterns scales are consisted of schizoid (scale 1), which
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Clinical syndromes scales are consisted of anxiety (scale A), which measures feelings of anxiety, apprehension, and tension (14 items), somatoform (scale H), identifies physical symptoms that do not have a biological basis (12 items), bipolar/ manic (scale N), which points to lasting elevated, expansive, and irritable moods during a manic episode (13 items), dysthymia (scale D), which indicates depressed mood for the past 2 years (14 items), alcohol dependence (scale B), which identifies issues related to alcohol use (15 items), drug dependence (scale T), which identifies problems related to drug use (14 items), and posttraumatic stress disorder (scale R), which measures anxious arousal after experiencing a traumatic event at 1 or more months prior (16 …show more content…
An elevation of the severe clinical syndrome scales typically accompanies with elevation in the basic clinical syndrome scales and the personality disorder scales (Groth-Marnat, 2009). For the clinical syndrome scales, unlike the personality disorder scales, the MCMI does not provide descriptors for frequent code types or treatment implications. It only offers descriptions of the scales (Groth-Marnat, 2009).
4) Review noteworthy responses/ critical items The noteworthy responses are not formal scales; nevertheless they would provide information that are helpful for clinicians to reach a fuller understanding of a given profile. The responses are organized in to “health preoccupation, interpersonal alienation, emotional dyscontrol, self-destructive potential, childhood abuse, and eating disorder(s)” (Groth-Marnat, 2009, p.
Clinical syndromes scales are consisted of anxiety (scale A), which measures feelings of anxiety, apprehension, and tension (14 items), somatoform (scale H), identifies physical symptoms that do not have a biological basis (12 items), bipolar/ manic (scale N), which points to lasting elevated, expansive, and irritable moods during a manic episode (13 items), dysthymia (scale D), which indicates depressed mood for the past 2 years (14 items), alcohol dependence (scale B), which identifies issues related to alcohol use (15 items), drug dependence (scale T), which identifies problems related to drug use (14 items), and posttraumatic stress disorder (scale R), which measures anxious arousal after experiencing a traumatic event at 1 or more months prior (16 …show more content…
An elevation of the severe clinical syndrome scales typically accompanies with elevation in the basic clinical syndrome scales and the personality disorder scales (Groth-Marnat, 2009). For the clinical syndrome scales, unlike the personality disorder scales, the MCMI does not provide descriptors for frequent code types or treatment implications. It only offers descriptions of the scales (Groth-Marnat, 2009).
4) Review noteworthy responses/ critical items The noteworthy responses are not formal scales; nevertheless they would provide information that are helpful for clinicians to reach a fuller understanding of a given profile. The responses are organized in to “health preoccupation, interpersonal alienation, emotional dyscontrol, self-destructive potential, childhood abuse, and eating disorder(s)” (Groth-Marnat, 2009, p.