Assessing Adolescent Psychopathology: MMPI-A/MMPI-A-RF Paperback 4

Robert P. Archer

Assessing Adolescent Psychopathology: MMPI-A / MMPI-A-RF, Fourth Edition provides updated recommendations for researchers and clinicians concerning the MMPI-A, the most widely used objective personality test with adolescents, and also introduces the MMPI-A-Restructured Form (MMPI-A-RF), the newest form of the MMPI for use with adolescents. Further, this fourth edition includes comprehensive information on both MMPI forms for adolescents, including descriptions of the development, structure, and interpretive approaches to the MMPI-A and the MMPI-A-RF. This text provides extensive clinical case examples of the interpretation of both tests, including samples of computer based test package output, and identifies important areas of similarities and differences between these two important tests of adolescent psychopathology.

1138830860

9781138830868

English

Taylor & Francis Ltd

10 Aug 2016

460

Robert P. Archer, PhD, ABPP, is the Frank Harrell Redwood Distinguished Professor and Director of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. He is the co-author of the MMPI-A, and the lead author for the MMPI-A-RF. He was the founding editor of the journal Assessment and is the President-Elect of the Society of Personality Assessment.

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Dr. Archer is the reigning expert on the application of the MMPI family of techniques to adolescents, and the fourth edition of his classic work in this area provides the user with a strong historical foundation as well as updates concerning the most important contemporary developments in the field. As was the case with previous editions, Dr. Archer provides a volume that combines comprehensive scholarship with keen clinical insight. A must read for any clinician or researcher wishing to use these assessment methods.-Dr. Les Morey, Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University