Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory Summary

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Jr, J. M. L. (2017). Critical Analysis of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory, 8(1), 3. II. The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory third edition is a true/false style test that has 175 total items. It has 14 personality disorder scales and 10 clinical syndrome scales. It is a self-report style assessment which means the patients are assessing themselves based on how the fit into the questions. The personality disorder scales are then further separated into two different categories. One of the categories of the personality disorder is used for categorizing central constructs of the personality that are unique to that disorder. The other category is to identify constructs more tangential and can be seen in more than one disorders that are similar. III. The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory focuses on the differences during the diagnosis of clients where groups are assessed to normal people instead of being compared to other clients. The personality …show more content…

Retzlaff has been quoted in many sources on his comments about the validity of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory. This was a response to people using his work as a reason to state that the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory was not valid. He wrote a response to stress that he actually stated that the way that he conducted his validity research was flawed. He also goes to state that those who criticized the validity of the MCMI-III used an older version of the assessment which means that even their criticism is in valid because they are commenting on an outdated version. Another criticism that was said is that its scales did not meet the criteria of both positive and negative predictive powers to be valid which was a minimum of .5. Once again, he was using an outdated version so that was true for the version he was testing; however, later there was a test of the current version and it showed most of the scales did meet this criteria with the exception of depressive, masochistic, and

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