Psychological Evaluation in Interventional Pain Practice
Mark V. Boswell, B. Eliot Cole in Weiner's Pain Management, 2005
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2)17 is a widely used and highly validated general measure of personality. Among its strengths is the use of validity scales that provide a profile of test-taking set. The MMPI’s capacity to estimate whether an examinee provided a valid self-description, tried to appear healthy, or tried to appear unhealthy can be beneficial to clinicians. The 10 primary clinical scales and a host of subscales and research scales help explain the prominence of the MMPI in personality testing. Computer scoring provides scale scores and a brief, initial interpretive narrative. The test comprises 576 true–false questions, so the time it takes a patient to complete the test is significant. Clinicians need to weigh the cost in patient time against the possible diagnostic benefits of MMPI administration.
Abnormal Personality in Functional Somatic Syndromes
Peter Manu in The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes, 2020
The first controlled investigation of the personality profiles and degree of psychological disturbance of patients with fibromyalgia was carried out at the Presbyterian—St. Luke’s Hospital in Chicago, an affiliate of the Rush Medical College (Payne et al., 1982). The participants included 30 inpatients diagnosed with fibrositis on the basis of diffuse and persistent musculoskeletal pain, as well as tenderness at four or more specified anatomical sites (Moldofsky et al., 1975). All patients had a full range of motion of all joints and no other rheumatological or neurological explanation for their illness. The two control groups included 30 patients with rheumatoid arthritis and 30 patients with chronic joint disease, such as ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and osteoarthritis. Data were collected with the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (Dahlstrom et al., 1972).
Questions and Answers
David Browne, Brenda Wright, Guy Molyneux, Mohamed Ahmed, Ijaz Hussain, Bangaru Raju, Michael Reilly in MRCPsych Paper I One-Best-Item MCQs, 2017
Answer: E. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is a self-rated questionnaire validated on psychiatric patients and is used to identify psychopathology and one’s personality profile. The Adaptive Behaviour Scales are used in patients with intellectual disability. The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale is used to measure psychotic symptoms and psychopathology. The CAGE is a brief screening tool for alcohol abuse. The General Health Questionnaire is a commonly used screening tool used in primary care and general population studies. [H. pp. 6–8]
Distinctiveness of the MMPI-3 Self-Importance and Self-Doubt Scales
Published in Journal of Personality Assessment, 2021
Megan R. Whitman, Yossef S. Ben-Porath
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) was developed in the early 1940s and its subsequent editions remain among the most commonly used assessment tools in psychology (see Ben-Porath, 2012; Martin et al., 2015). The longevity of the test is no accident, as its original authors, Hathaway and McKinley, saw the instrument as a starting point for ongoing improvement1. Indeed, more recent efforts to update the inventory reflect advances in scientific knowledge in terms of both scale construction and psychopathology (Sellbom, 2019). The most recent revisions to the test are found in the MMPI-3, which provides an updated normative sample (replacing norms collected in the mid-1980s) and increased coverage of constructs relevant in the assessment of personality and psychopathology (Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2020a, 2020b). One such construct involves beliefs that one has special talents, abilities, and qualities—which is measured by the new MMPI-3 Self-Importance (SFI) scale.
Using the MMPI-3 in Legal Settings
Published in Journal of Personality Assessment, 2022
Yossef S. Ben-Porath, Kirk Heilbrun, Madelena Rizzo
Stark Hathaway and J. Charnley McKinley began developing the MMPI in the 1930s. Their original aim was to construct a self-report inventory to be used in the differential diagnosis of eight psychiatric disorders corresponding to the eight original Clinical Scales of the test. Within a decade it became clear that the Clinical Scales did not work as originally intended, as elevations often were found among individuals who did not meet diagnostic criteria for the mental disorder targeted by a given scale. Thus, research instead turned to examining empirical correlates associated with the Clinical Scales and various profile configurations (code types). This approach proved to be successful and the MMPI was soon the most widely used self-report measure of psychopathology (e.g., Lubin et al., 1971).
Functional neurological symptoms masquerading as Wernicke encephalopathy following bariatric surgery
Published in Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, 2019
Andrew M. Kiselica, Sabra Rosen, Jared F. Benge
This case has important implications for clinical practice. It highlights the importance of presurgical psychological evaluations, which are recommended in practice guidelines from the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery10 and may have prevented decompensation and debility in this case. Second, this report illustrates the potential utility of including symptom validity tests in presurgical evaluations. Importantly, these measures are embedded in existing personality tests often used in clinical practice,11 such as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Performance validity measures (e.g., the Test of Memory Malingering) may also be useful when making bariatric presurgical recommendations, a possibility being explored for other types of surgical interventions.12
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