title: An approach for practice administration and interpretation of the MMPI-2.
abstract: This paper discusses one teaching approach for practice administration and interpretation of the MMPI-2 in a graduate course on personality assessment. After graduate students practice scoring and interpreting the MMPI-2 inventory completed with specific response sets and practice interpreting MMPI-2 profiles of cases prepared for teaching and practice in interpretation, students practice administering and interpreting the MMPI-2 for volunteer test-takers who complete the inventory with a simulated stress response set. The simulated stress response set approach may be helpful in providing skill-building practice in the early phases of learning the MMPI-2 with volunteer test-takers, while minimizing some of the ethical concerns raised regarding actual administrations with nonclient volunteers in the early phases of training in assessment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5226, USA. patrick.munley@wmich.edu
authors.forename: Patrick H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Munley
authors.forename: Ursla
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Null
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011214:Practice, Psychological; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*