Personality Assessment Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read the Cohen, et al. (2013) and

Personality Assessment

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read the Cohen, et al. (2013) and Wu, et al. (2007) articles and review the and websites.

For this discussion, you will be taking on the role of the intake counselor at a mental health facility. In this role, you will facilitate the evaluation of a client based on clinical personality assessments, mental status exam, and observations of the client to make recommendations to the treatment team consisting of the clinical psychologist, counselors, and case manager for the client. Carefully review the .

In your initial post, examine the personality assessment instrument used in the scenario and research a peer-reviewed article in the Ashford University Library on this personality assessment. Using the required articles and websites as well as your researched article to support your statements, describe the standard use of this personality assessment. Based on the scenario, evaluate the reliability, validity, and cultural considerations inherent to the personality assessment used and comment on the relevance of these elements within the scenario. Analyze and describe some of the potential ethical issues which might arise from the use of this personality assessment in the given scenario. Provide information from your research regarding the use of the personality measure, and assess the value of other possible instruments that could be added to create a more complete assessment of the client in the scenario. Answer Preview………………….

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), has been quoted as being an effective tool in the analysis of patient psychological condition. The instrument is not only applicable in psychological cases of patient analysis, but also in determining the appropriateness of various health procedures among patients within hospital settings (Marek et al., 2015). Standard application of the tool has always been within clinical situations and among people suspected of having mental problems. While it is an effective tool in such analysis, it is not applicable in random testing, primarily because it is a protected instrument, allowed for use within health environments and interpretation by mandated psychologists. Different scales within the MMPI ensure that the results………………….. APA 444 words Added to cart