Personality assessment in treatment planning : use of the MMPI-2 and BTPI

Personality assessment in treatment planning : use of the MMPI-2 and BTPI / James N. Butcher, Julia N. Perry.

The establishment of frank and honest communication is one of the most important early goals of psychotherapy. Indeed, the most prominent challenge in the early stages of treatment is to develop a comfortable relationship that allows disclosure. In this volume, the authors show that objectively inte...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Butcher, James Neal, 1933-
Other Authors: Perry, Julia N.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.
Personality assessment.
MEDICAL > Psychiatry > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Clinical Psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
Personality assessment
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Table of Contents:
  • Importance of psychological assessment in treatment planning
  • Introduction to the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2)
  • Hypotheses about treatment from MMPI-2 scales and indexes
  • MMPI-2 supplementary scales in treatment evaluation
  • MMPI-2 content indicators in evaluating therapy patients
  • The Butcher Treatment Planning Inventory (BTPI)
  • Use of computer-generated reports in treatment planning
  • Providing the client feedback with the MMPI-2
  • Case analyses
  • Postscript : objective personality in psychological treatment.

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