Personality Assessment Instrument: obsessive-compulsive disorder
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Select one psychological personality assessment instrument or inventory to serve as the basis of this assignment.
Explore the psychological literature to find three to five articles that test the use of this inventory or assessment on obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Include the following information:
o Describe the characteristics, uses, and purposes of your selected assessment instrument or inventory.
o Analyze the relationship between your selected assessment and one of the major theories of personality.
o Summarize your research findings, paying particular attention to differences in the ability of the instrument to differentiate diagnostically between the target population and the general population.
o Identify the psychometric properties of the test for the particular population.
o Conclude from a review of the literature whether or not the instrument is an adequate measure of your selected characteristic. Analyze any ethical considerations associated with your selected assessment.
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Personality assessment instruments for obsessive-compulsive disorders are examined.
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Personality Assessment Disorder Instrument
Introduction
Nowadays, changing lifestyle and living standards are seen as facilitators of personality disorder. Personality Assessment instruments are used to assess personality related disorder. Personality assessment tests are conducted with the help of assessment instruments to assess psychiatric (Butcher, 2009). MMPI is selected for analyzing its relevance with psychological tests (Friedman, Lewak & Nichols, 2001). There will be a discussion of personality assessment instrument and its practical application. Apart from this, relation of selected personality instrument will be assessed with the personality theory.
Personality Assessment Instrument
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is a MMPI is a personality assessment inventory that was developed in 1930's. There are various aspects of this inventory that reflect is significance. These are as follow:
Characteristics: It is a significant personality assessment inventory that is widely used to test the personality of individuals. It consists of a number of items that are used to analyze psychology of patients (Butcher, 2009). It has two successors that are known as MMPI-2 and MMPI-A. MMPI comprises 3 validity scales and 10 clinical scales. Its 3 validity scales involves lie, infrequency and correction. Clinical scales consist of hypochondriasis, depression, hysteria, psychopathic deviate, mascunilinity-famininity, paranoia, psychasthenia, schizophrenia, hypomania and social introversion.
Uses: MMPI is used in clinical researches to address psychiatric problems related to personality. It is simpler to administer for clinical researches that form the basis of assuming its attractiveness in psychological assessment. In is used in neuro-feedback training and treatment. It is used in the assessment of personality disorder like schizophrenia, paranoia, hypomania etc (Friedman, Lewak & Nichols, 2001). It has a wide application for
Purpose: Main objective of practitioners behind the use of MMPI is to identify the presence of psychological elements in a patient's body. It is applied by the psychiatrists to assess psychiatric problems like hysteria, depression, hypomania, paranoia etc. It is also used by the practitioners to measure the recovery of patients through the application of its clinical and validity scales that are based on different aspects.
Relationship
MMPI is related to the Frauds Psychoanalytic theory that is a theory of cognition. According to this theory of personality, personality is developed with various constricts. This personality theory is based on different life stage that transforms personality of individuals. It is reflected that MMPI also assess personality types with the help of validity and clinical scores. Objective and goals of using MMPI in personality assessment are similar like of Freuds Psychoanalytic theory (Lester, 1995).
Implications of this personality theory are also related with the use of MMPI in clinical practices like personality assessment. The theory also talks about paranoia and anxiety that are also assessed by MMPI. MMPI is also applied to measure depression, OCD etc that are encouraged by anxiety. Assumptions developed by Freud have implications for MMPI in the ...
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