Test Description The MACI consists of a 160-item inventory, provided in the English and Spanish language, with a combination of the 27 subscales. The intention of the inventory is to provide counselors and other healthcare or school professional with information to assist in diagnosis and treatment planning for personality disorders in adolescent (Millon & Davis, 1993). The inventory consists of true or false questions; given that this inventory is shorter compared to other personality assessment, it only takes about 20-30 minutes to complete. Millon’s MACI inventory provides convenient and cost-effective methods for scoring the inventory, which include Q-global web-based scoring, Q-Local software-based scoring, and mail-in scoring. Since the MACI is tailored toward adolescents ranging in ages from 13-19, participants must have a minimum of a sixth grade reading level in order to …show more content…
A notable strength of the MACI inventory is the ease of it all. The tests consist of true or false questions, it is only 20-30 minutes long, and it provides easy and comprehendible assessment question suitable for the age group. A noteworthy weakness, however, is that the MACI inventory is its method of comparing adolescents to a particular population rather a norming population; it limits the amount of more useful information that can be obtained. Tringone and Bockian (2015) suggest that in assessing the MACI with adolescent of differing cultural background, distinct cultural factor can affect the overall results (p. 569). Increasing the norming group would provide a more extensive, more approachable, and formative result. Despite its shortcomings, the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory serves its purpose in providing counselors and other trained professional working with adolescents with helpful assessment results, which ultimately helps in formulating treatment
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Since it was designed as a self-report tool that assesses a broad scope of clinical conditions, its reliability and validity can be considered as strong. In its 478 items, the MMPI-A covers the 10 original scales of MPPI, six validity scales, PSY-5 scales, and 15 content component scales. Then there are also three social introversion sub-scales, the 31 Harris Lingoes sub-scales and six supplementary scales. More importantly, studies of the MMPI-A have shown high test and retest consistency through which reliability and validity can be guaranteed (Gass & Odland, 2012). With the exception of the MF scale that is part of the four factor model, the remaining three which are General Maladjustment, Social Introversion and Over-Control, relevantly address the behavioral problems exhibited by Jane. Hence, it is imperative that the racial disparity of the MF scale be considered from a cultural perspective because studies have shown that there is a tendency of non-Whites scoring higher than other races (Gass & Odland, 2014). Ideally, the variations in cultural values must be considered when applying the test on Whites and non-Whites since the differences reflect socio-economic factors rather than racial
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I will be using two assessment tools when conducting the final evaluation assignment, the SETT and the WATI. Before making any AT decisions it’s important that the IEP team collect initial data using a systematic and multidimensional approach (Marino, 2006).
There are two basic psychometric properties, validity and reliability that have been used to evaluate the quality of scale development. Psychometric testing used to evaluate the quality of instrument (Polit& Beck, 2010).
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Personality disorders have always been viewed as a possible category for a psychological disorder. However, in the new edition of the DSM, it will be getting its own diagnostic category. In viewing personality disorder, one can only agree that it should have its own diagnostic category. The reason that these changes are being supported is because of the causation, diagnosis, and treatment of personality disorders.
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...es low self-esteem and decreased self-worth. Moreover, lack of positive future prospects and healthy leisure time activities may promote boredom resulting in psychologically imbalanced teenagers. Negative life stressors have been found to place all youth at risk for suicide. However, excessive addictions, long term poverty, few economic opportunities and feelings of inadequacy are more prevalent in the lives of American Indian youths (Metha, 1996).
The Million Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI; Millon, 1993), designed by Theodore Millon, is a 160- item self- report assessment used “primarily in the evaluation of troubled adolescents, and may be used for diagnostic assistance, in formulating treatment plans, and as an outcome measure” (Millon, T. 1993, 2006) in clinical settings. The MACI is a personality inventory with a primary focus on adolescents ages 13-19 and can be used in a variety of settings with a wide range of psychological symptoms and characteristics.
Author Stuart C. Yudofsky, MD and practitioner in psycho-pharmacology and neuropsychiatry, defines a personality disorder as a persistent pattern of behavior that markedly diverges from a person’s culture and leads to “significant distress and relationship issues.” However, there is some controversy when it comes to diagnosing what exactly defines a personality disorder. This is because many of the traits found in an individual with a personality disorder are also found in normal people. For example, a pers...
The sample consisted of adolescents between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, who met the criteria for DSM-III-R (American Psychiatric Association, 1987), major depression and with the Beck Depression Inventory (Beck et. al., 1988) score greater than or equal to 13 (p. 907). All participants were nonpsychotic, non-bipolar, without obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorder, substance abuse, or ongoing physical and/or sexual abuse. There were 122 adolescents who were eligible for the study but only 107 (87.7%) participants agreed to randomization. One third (32.7%) of participants were chosen through
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