Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory Case Study

Assessing Substance Abusers with the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI). (n.d.). Retrieved April 23, 2018, from http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/ebookviewer/ebook/ZTAwMHhuYV9fNDU3MDQ4X19BTg2?sid=c2b67ba6-6bc8-4764-9f14-9dcb0dd57895@sessionmgr4006&vid=0&format=EB&rid=1
I. The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory was last revised in 1997 and has a total of three versions. This test is used in both clinical and forensic settings. Millon began to develop his assessment based on the bioevolutionary theory. This theory has the start of what Millon has coined personology. Millon believed that there are three main motivations for people. Those three motivations are survival, adaptation, and replication. His theories are also found in other areas of science

The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III had research done to test the convergent validity of the clinical syndrome scales. This was done by a cross-sectional survey and by using a sample of 186 substance abusers from one town that was referred. The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory was tested against Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview, Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale, and the Beck Anxiety Inventory. Past versions of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory have had ambiguous findings when looking at validity, and there has not been much research on the clinical syndromes as opposed to the personality disorders. There have been three studies to look at the validity of this assessment. The first scale showed very low reliability but there were criticisms on how that research was conducted because of little contact and no structured assessments of the DSM Axis I disorders. The second analysis showed excellent validity but had criticisms as well saying that some of the diagnosis were known by clinicians before the actual assessment was given. The third was an independent research group that showed convergence between the MCMI-III and the Beck but also low discriminant between