MMPI-2 clinical, validity, restructured clinical, content, selected supplemental, and PSY-5 scale data from convicted offenders who were incarcerated and referred by community criminal courts were analyzed. Descriptive statistics, including frequency data for high points and well-defined two-point code types were provided. Compared to state and federal inmates, significantly more individuals fr...

In order to understand patterns of respondents on validity and clinical scales, this study analyzed archival Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 2s (MMPI-2s) produced by 192 women and 14 men who initiated legal claims of ongoing emotional harm related to workplace sexual harassment and discrimination. The MMPI-2s were administered as a part of a comprehensive psychiatric forensic evalua...

Two categories of treatment have been shown to be effective in treating panic disorder with or without agoraphobia. One is pharmacotherapy using antidepressants and benzodiazepinesand the other is psychotherapy. The present study aims at the assessment of the outcome of Cognitive-Analytic Therapy (CAT), a type of brief psychotherapy, in a sample of 128 psychiatricoutpatients with DSM-IV diagnos...

Two previous meta-analyses concluded that average validity coefficients for the Rorschach and the MMPI have similar magnitudes (L. Atkinson, 1986; K. C. H. Parker, R. K. Hanson, & J. Hunsley, 1988), but methodological problems in both meta-analyses may have impeded acceptance of these results (H. N. Garb, C. M. Florio, & W. M. Grove, 1998). We conducted a new meta-analysis comparing criterionre...

The current study investigates the extent to which the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A) profiles of 196 male adolescents evaluated in a South Carolina detention center could be successfully discriminated from the protocols of 200 male adolescent psychiatric inpatients in three states and 151 dually diagnosed male adolescents. Results showed significant differences...