Use of the MMPI-2 in Inpatient Mental Health Settings (from the chapter) It is somewhat surprising that the MMPI/MMPI-2, a product of the inpatient setting, has not received as much attention in terms of its role and use within the context of its origins as would be expected. This chapter seeks to partially redress this gap in the literature of the test by highlighting features of inpatient settings and those who populate them in relation to the tasks the psychologist in such settings is called upon to undertake. Of course not all inpatient settings are alike. Psychiatric services within private or university hospitals differ in important ways from those within Veterans' Administration (VA) facilities, and both differ from publicly funded state hospitals. Average lengths of stay; the proportion of involuntary patients; admission and discharge policies and arrangements; community support resources and interfaces; the level of education, training, credentials, and experience of the typical professional staff; and their positions within the organizational structure, supervisory arrangements, and routes of accountability give only a rough idea of the kinds and variety of such differences. Despite such differences, the circumstance of residing in an institution charged with providing care, support, and treatment within a medical framework for patients deemed-whether by themselves or others-sufficiently distressed, unstable, incompetent, or dangerous as to be unable to reside, at least temporarily, outside the institution creates its own pattern of similarities as well. It is these similarities that we have assumed if not embraced in this chapter, as we discuss the use of the MMPI-2 in the assessment of psychiatric inpatients. The reader should be aware that the authors' experience in developing this chapter is drawn from state or regional hospitals serving general psychiatric patients. These are our primary points of reference in what follows. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved) https://www.upress.umn.edu/test-division/bibliography/2000-2009/2006/nichols_use_2006 https://www.upress.umn.edu/logo.png

David S Nichols and Brenton Crowhurst (2006)

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