Comer - Ch. 3: Clinical Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment

10 scales on the MMPI measure the following:

Hypochondriasis (Items showing abnormal concern with bodily functions)

Depression (Items showing extreme pessimism and hopelessness)

Hysteria (Items suggesting that the person may use physical or mental symptoms as a way of unconsciously avoiding conflicts and responsibilities)

Psychopathic deviate (Items showing a repeated and gross disregard for social customs and an emotional shallowness)

Masculinity-femininity (Items that are thought to separate male and female respondents)

Paranoia (Items that show abnormal suspiciousness and delusions of grandeur or persecution)

Psychasthenia (Items that show obsessions, compulsions, abnormal fears, and guilt and indecisiveness)

Schizophrenia (Items that show bizarre or unusual thoughts or behavior)

Hypomania (Items that show emotional excitement, overactivity, and flight of ideas)

Social introversion (Items that show shyness, little interest in people, and insecurity)

Categorical information

refers to the name of the particular category (disorder) indicated by the client's symptoms

Dimensional information

a rating of how severe a client's symptoms are (how much the symptoms impair the client) and how dysfunctional the client is across various dimensions of personality