Interpreting the MMPI-3

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An essential guide to detailed and accurate interpretation of the MMPI-3

The MMPI-3 builds on the history and strengths of the MMPI instruments to provide an empirically validated, psychometrically up-to-date standard for psychological assessment. Updating and expanding the information found in MMPI-3 test manuals, Interpreting the MMPI-3 is an indispensable resource for practicing clinicians and a vital textbook for graduate psychological assessment courses that use and study this singular psychological instrument.

Yossef S. Ben-Porath, coauthor of the MMPI-3, and Martin Sellbom, a leading expert on the MMPI instruments, provide detailed descriptions and interpretive recommendations for test scales, along with illustrative cases from a wide variety of settings, including forensic (criminal and civil), medical, and personnel screening. This core interpretive content places the MMPI-3 at the forefront of contemporary psychological assessment, while also providing important background on older versions of the test.

This volume includes an in-depth look at the tests history, development, administration, and interpretation, and it also addresses diversity-sensitive assessment with the test. A comprehensive guide for clinicians, researchers, and students, this book sets the standard for interpretation of and instruction on the MMPI-3.

A book-based exam offering Continuing Education (CE) credit is available for this publication. Visit upress.umn.edu/test-division for more information.

Author Bio

Yossef S. Ben-Porath is professor of psychological sciences at Kent State University. A board-certified clinical psychologist, he has been involved extensively in MMPI research for the past thirty-seven years. He is codeveloper of the MMPI-3, MMPI-2-RF, and MMPI-A-RF and coauthor of test manuals, books, book chapters, and articles on the MMPI instruments.

Martin Sellbom is professor in clinical psychology at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, and editor-in-chief for the Journal of Personality Assessment. His work has been featured in nearly three hundred publications, with a large proportion focusing on the MMPI instruments. He has received awards from the American Psychological Foundation, the American Psychology-Law Society, and the Society for Personality Assessment.