Assessing Adolescent Psychopathology

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.

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.

Preface 1. Adolescent Development and Psychopathology 2. Development of the MMPI, MMPI-A, and MMPI-A-RF 3. Administration and Scoring Issues 4. MMPI-A and MMPI-A-RF Validity Scales and Validity Interpretation 5. MMPI-A Basic Clinical Scale and Codetype Correlates for Adolescents 6. Beyond the Basic Scales: Interpreting Additional MMPI-A Scales and Subscales 7. Overview of the MMPI-A-RF 8. Interpretive Strategies for the MMPI-A and MMPI-A-RF  References Author Index Subject Index