Essentials of Millon Inventories Assessment (Essentials of Psychological Assessment) [Paperback]

Stephen Strack Ph.D. (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0470168625 | ISBN-13: 978-0470168622 | Publication Date: March 3, 2008 | Edition: 3

Fully revised and updated, Essentials of Millon Inventories Assessment, Third Edition will help readers to quickly acquire the knowledge and skills needed to confidently administer, score, and interpret the full battery of Millon personality assessment tests.

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Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret the Millon personality assessment tests

Essentials of Millon Inventories Assessment, Third Edition provides state-of-the-art, practical guidelines for using the Millon personality tests. In one easy-to-use new edition, you can access comprehensive information on these seven instruments:

• The Millon Pre-Adolescent Clinical Inventory (M-PACI)—new to this edition

• The Millon College Counseling Inventory (MCCI)—new to this edition

• The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (MCMI-III)

• The Millon Behavioral Medicine Diagnostic (MBMD)

• The Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI)

• The Personality Adjective Check List (PACL)

• The Millon Index of Personality Styles (MIPS®) Revised

Like all the volumes in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, this book is designed to help busy mental health professionals quickly acquire the knowledge and skills they need to make optimal use of major psychological assessment instruments. Each concise chapter features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as test questions that help you gauge and reinforce your grasp of the information covered.

Essentials of Millon Inventories Assessment, Third Edition provides comprehensive instruction in test administration, scoring, and interpretation. As well, this informative text provides expert evaluation of the methods' relative strengths and weaknesses, valuable advice on their clinical applications, and illuminating case studies. Complete with a Foreword by Theodore Millon, PhD, DSc, who developed most of the tests covered in this book, you'll learn how to most effectively employ these popular measures of personality.

About the Author

Stephen Strack, PhD, is a Staff Psychologist at the VA Care Center in Los Angeles and a Clinical Professor at Alliant International University in Los Angeles and Fuller Graduate School of Psychology in Pasadena.

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 3 edition (March 3, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470168625
• ISBN-13: 978-0470168622
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not that much different than http://millon.net, November 30, 2009

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This book was disappointing. Most of the "Essentials" series are indeed just that -- essential, in both meanings (necessary and capturing the essence). I use them frequently when performing assessments.

However, this book provides little insight in interpretation of the Millon inventories. Rather, it is an explanation of the scenarios in which a practitioner would use the different inventories, e.g. which audience or situation would be appropriate for a MACI as opposed to a MAPI. It does not provide clarification into the interpretation of the tests. [...]

If you want more information on how to interpret the MCMI, get Millon's "Personalized Psychotherapy Approach" series. You will need all 3 books. While the series is not as straightforward in helping you interpret the MCMI as the "Essentials of the MMPI" book is to interpreting the MMPI, the series will give you much more information than the Millon website. The books aren't cheap, but if you do assessment and have a psychodynamic orientation, they are worth the expense.

1.0 out of 5 stars Much better resources available, December 5, 2011

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I agree completely with the previous review of this work. Essentials of MIllon Inventories would be helpful to a graduate student that is learning appropriate test selection and situations when to use each of the tests. However, I was greatly disappointed with the lack of detail that this work provides on each of the tests. I would be so bold to argue that you don't even get the "Essentials" leaving this book better left as a paperweight.