PERSONALITY INVENTORY NEWS:
 One of  the Best Tools, the MMPI-2, is 
 "Do-it-Yourself"!

People have found a book available to everyone, professional or not,
that contains the entire MMPI-2 personality inventory and the
scoring for over half of the 80 or so MMPI-2 scales. The book is 
called Development and Use of the MMPI-2 Content Scales by Butcher,
Graham, Williams, and Ben-Porath. The MMPI-2 test is on pages 
144-158.  The scoring for all the newest and most useful 
scales are in the book. ...  These scales use all the items of the MMPI-2 
and are much related to everything the MMPI-2 can tell you. (SEE the 
FOOTNOTE 1 at the bottom of this page for important information on 
scoring scales using this book.*)

With the book anyone can essentially give himself/herself the MMPI-2.
We can all know everything about ourselves, as much as any psychologist 
OBJECTIVELY can.  We can use the best and most
objective tool ourselves. I kid you not. ...

Again, this is important news!!!!! Especially where the MMPI-2 is 
going to be used inappropriately against a person. 
Now all can take the MMPI and score half the major scales and even
coach themselves on giving the "right answers". The available scales
overlap with ALL the scales of the MMPI-2 and thus "correctly" answering
on them will yield good (desired) results on all the scales. Thus, unethical
MMPI-2 screening has been yielded ineffective!!  (The MMPI-2 should 
NOT be being used for things like job selection anyway.)

In short, with an inexpensive book you can glean ALL the most meaningful
information from the MMPI-2. You can now give it to yourself, score
it yourself, interpret it yourself (all with the help of a book
that has all the needed information and costs less than $50!!). 
(AGAIN, SEE the FOOTNOTE 1 at the bottom of this page for important information 
on scoring scales using this book.*)  

All the information you need for a decent interpretation is in that
same book. Again, the MMPI-2 is in the book; the scoring is in the book.
The scales are MOST of the scales of the MMPI-2 and overlap totally
with the rest of the scales. ALL the MMPI-2  items are used.


Now that people realize they can give themselves the MMPI-2 and coach
themselves so they can appear as good as they want to in any selection
or screening process, where they are required to take the MMPI, the
following book is "flying off the shelves"!!:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0816618178/qid%3D1036163612/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/103-5353321-2495849

(put address all on one line) 

MORE NEWS:

For more information on scoring (ALL THE REST OF THE SCALES NOT IN THE 
FIRST-MENTIONED BOOK ABOVE), simply get the following book from your 
university library OR buy it from amazon.com or some other seller. This is the MMPI-2 
MANUAL for Administration and Scoring:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006ETDMQ/qid=1134838656/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-3387567-2471069?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

It is then rather easy to find books that supplement the information in this Manual to 
allow for a reasonable understanding and interpretation of these "classic" 'clinical' scales 
and their subscales.  For example: Much of what one would need for a meaningful 
interpretation of these other scales can be found in the following book:  
MMPI-2 in Psychological Treatment by James Neal Butcher 
(Oxford Press, 1990).

The 83 MMPI-2 Scales (ordered alphabetically):

1 A        2 ANG    3 ANX   4 ASP   5 BIZ      6 CYN        7 D       8 D1         9 D2
10 D3   11 D4     12 D5    13 DEP   14 Do     15 D-O       16 D-S   17 Es        18 F
19 FRS  20 FB  21 FAM 22 GF     23 GM   24 HEA       25 Hs     26 Hy       27 Hy1
28 Hy2  29 Hy3  30 Hy4   31 Hy5    32 Hy-O 33 HY-S     34 K       35 L         36 LSE
37 Ma   38 Ma1  39 Ma2  40 Ma3    41 Ma4   42 MAC-R 43 Mf-f   44 Mf-m   45 Ma-O
46 Ma-S 47 Mt   48 OBS 49 O-H    50 Pa      51 Pa1        52 Pa2    53 Pa3      54 Pa-O
55 Pa-S  56 Pd   57 Pd1   58 Pd2    59 Pd3    60 Pd4       61 Pd5    62 Pd-O    63 Pd-S
64 PK    65 PS    66 Pt     67 R        68 Re      69 Sc        70 Sc1     71 Sc2     72 Sc3
73 Sc4   74 Sc5   75 Sc6  76 Si        77 Si1     78 Si2        79 Si3     80 SOD    81 TPA
82 TRT  83 WRK  (source: the two books cited above)

Have fun.  Cheers,  Brad Jesness, M.A., former psychology and counseling instructor;
                                                         officially qualified user and scorer of the MMPI-2
                                                         Tests and Measurements Expert

*FOOTNOTE 1: 

I need to inform you of the 2 step process you will need to get the "REAL" 
scores using the info. in the book on the MMPI-2. It is a 2 step process for 
each scale (info. on about 40 scales is in the book). Here is the procedure:

(1) For each scale, first obtain the RAW score on the scale, as follows: 
For each item the test taker marked TRUE *AND* which scores a scale up for a true 
response, add one point **PLUS**
for each item the test taker marked FALSE *AND* which scores the scale up for a 
false response, add one point (the info. in the book tells you exactly which 
items score each scale UP for TRUE OR FALSE). The total is a scale's RAW score.

(2) Finally, to get the REAL scores (the actual scores used) you need to 
convert each RAW scale score into a "t-score". You do this simply by finding 
the Profile Sheet in a figure in the book for the scales you need to so convert. 
Simply finding the raw score on the appropriate Profile Sheet and plotting it
will show you the "t-score" (the score used for interpretation).

Now you can read about what your scores mean in the book and see how you may 
have been improperly represented due to misunderstanding the "questions". 

AGAIN: Similar profile sheets and item scoring information is available for scoring 
all the scales that are NOT in the first-mentioned Butcher et al book, by obtaining the 
Manual noted under the "More News" section (above) .  But, the Butcher et al 
Development and Use of the MMPI-2 Content Scales book allows you 
to score most MMPI-2 scales (scales that make use of all MMPI-2 items at least once) -- 
and if you do well on those, you will do well on the rest of the MMPI-2 and vice versa.

(END OF FOOTNOTE ON MMPI-2 SCORING)
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FOOTNOTE 2:

Again, something else that may be of interest to those among the readers of this 
web page who score their own objective measures:
FREE, automatic scoring programs for scoring tests or objective
instruments or inventories with many, many scales are available.

FOOTNOTE 3:

This is a NEW FOOTNOTE! (see FOOTNOTE 1 above for MMPI book scoring info.)

NEW LINK!

An apparent fan of mine and of Dr. J.Wyatt Ehrenfels has posted
a series of posts that amount to

DIAGNOSIS FOR ANYONE AND EVERYONE
(IF this link is slow or does not work, use the NEXT link on this page; the next 
link is a link to the local copy of all these posts -- IN ANY CASE read 
  post #31 first, because that is an index and guide to the other 30 posts.)

The criteria for nearly all common diagnoses which
psychologists diagnose are in this set of posts
(a link from the page linked to above brings up
the whole set of 31 posts, providing (in essence)
the official APA criteria for all the common mental
 disorders people may not know the definitions of).

As a person who has taught college-level Abnormal Psychology several years and 
who has taught Counseling to college students who were becoming counselors, 
I CAN AFFIRM THAT ALL THE INFORMATION ON DIAGNOSES IN THESE 
POSTS IS ACCURATE AND QUITE THOROUGH.  -- Brad Jesness, M.A.

I would host this entire set of posts on this web site, but for the fact that I am near
my space limit here.  The author of the posts gives express permission for the
reproduction and dissemination of this material (in the interest of public knowledge).

NEWS,  *** NEW *** as of 06-03-04 :

I found that I do have enough web space available to provide a link to a .txt document
containing a copy of all these posts.

CLICK THIS LINK TO BRING UP THE TEXT COPY OF THIS GREAT
SET OF POSTS

THIS diagnoses.txt DOCUMENT SHOULD OPEN IN YOUR BROWSER.

This is basically all the information a man-on-the-street would need to know to
understand any common mental disorders other than ones that are already well-known.
(NOTE:  It would be best to read #31 FIRST, since this has the Index and a description
 of the material in the other 30 posts.)

Now, also, you may CLICK HERE for a .zip file to download, so you can
HAVE YOUR VERY OWN COPY OF THIS COURSE IN ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR
AND DIAGNOSES (the zip unzips to be diagnoses.txt -- same as what you could view
above in your browser).

Just so you can have an idea of what is covered, the table 
below is a duplicate of SOME of what appears in Post #31