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Under managed care pressure, the MMPI-2 is now called on to generate more and more of the assessments that a battery of instruments once did. Integrating old and new empirically-supported scales, this book lays out a content cluster interpretive approach

This second edition continues to present the following special features of its highly successful predecessor:
* an analysis of the major partitionings of the MMPI into special scales in terms of their clinical usefulness, resulting in the selection of those scales that most discriminatingly and non-redundantly represent the core psychological traits and qualities captured by the MMPI;
* a number of individually developed scales that tap into additional aspects of validity, psychopathology, and adjustment and personality;
* the Indiana Special Scales which sample additional...

In a managed care era, the MMPI-2 is becoming an overloaded workhorse, required to generate more and more of the assessments that a battery of instruments once did. Though all now rely on the MMPI-2 for good reasons, and the MMPI has fallen out of use entirely, some important and clinically useful scales were lost in the transition.
Edward Gotts and Thomas Knudsen have recovered these scales and integrated them with all the standard MMPI-2 scales, the recently published Restructured Clinical Scales, and a number of scales they have constructed to assess "positive strengths and coping...