Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to administer, score, and interpret the MCMI ®-IV Essentials of MCMI ®-IV Assessment is the definitive source of up-to-date, practical information for clinicians and students using the MCMI®-IV inventory. Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to administer, score, and interpret the MCMI (R)-IV Essentials of MCMI (R)-IV Assessment is the definitive source of up-to-date, practical information for clinicians and students using the MCMI(R)-IV inventory. Chapter 1: History and Development of the MCMI Through MCMI-IV Construction of the Legacy MCMI Tests (MCMI, MCMI-II, MCMI-III) Development of the MCMI-IV Test Yourself   Chapter 2: MCMI-IV and Millon Evolutionary Theory Personality as Focal Point in Clinical Assessment and Intervention An Evolutionary Model of Personality Motivating Aims Problematic Patterns in Motivating Aims Levels of Adaptiveness Structural and Functional Domains Translating Millon s Evolutionary Theory to the MCMI-IV Test Yourself   Chapter 3: Administration and Scoring Administration Scoring Test Yourself   Chapter 4: Sections and Scales Validity and Modifying Indices Invalidity (Scale V) Inconsistency (Scale W) Disclosure Index (Scale X) Desirability Index (Scale Y) Debasement Index (Scale Z) Noteworthy Responses Clinical Personality Patterns Test Yourself   Chapter 5: Interpretive Principles Role of Personality in Assessment: A Recapitulation Integrating the Overall Clinical Picture Test Yourself   Chapter 6: Therapeutic Alliance Building Introducing the MCMI-IV to the Examinee Preparing the Examinee for Feedback The Examiner s Initial Preparation for Feedback Moving Away from Labels Understanding the Examinee s Test-Taking Style (Modifying Indices) Test Yourself   Chapter 7: Strengths and Weaknesses of the MCMI-IV A. Jordan Wright Strengths Weaknesses Final Comment Test Yourself   Chapter 8: Clinical Applications of the Millon Inventories Key MCMI-IV Augmentation: Personality Spectra and Clinical Populations The MCMI-IV in Clinical Assessment Specific Assessment Applications with the MCMI Other Millon Inventories Test Yourself   Chapter 9: Illustrative Case Reports Introduction Case Example #1 Case Example #2   References   About the Authors