The MMPI®-2 is used to identify critical personality traits
and to diagnose psychopathology. The MMPI®-2
is used in clinical practice as well as to identify psychological
factors associated with the selection of personnel for sensitive risk
or safety sensitive positions such as:

• Antisocial behaviour
• Interpersonal distrust
• Deviant thoughts and behaviours
• Emotional instability
• Power of the Ego
• Proprietary predisposition
• Predisposition to substance abuse

The MMPI®-2 contains a wide and varied range of
assessment scales, which take into account all aspects of
human psyche and behaviour. Indicatively
the following are listed:

• Hostility
• Social Responsibility
• Depression
• Psychopathic deviation
• Social introversion
• Lack of Motivation
• Latent Dependence Scale

• Psychological assessment
• Staff Evaluation/Selection
  
• Differential Diagnosis
• Judicial use

Presentation of the MMPI®-2 Questionnaire

• Distribution of a questionnaire to participants

Psychometric Properties of the MMPI®-2 and Analysis in

• 10 Validity & Reliability Scales
• 10 Clinical Scales
• 9 Retrospective clinical scales
• 15 Content scales
• 27 Explanatory scales
• 15 Supplementary
• 5 Structural Personality Scales
• Adjustment and weighting to the Greek population

From MMPI to MMPI®-2

• The innovations of MMPI®-2: Changes & Corrections

Presentation of the MMPI®-2 Scales

• Validity scales
• Clinics scales and their explanatory Harris Lingoes
• Restructured clinical scales and their relevance for profiling
• Content Scales and their explanatory Content Segment Scales - PSY-5 Domain Personality Scales
• Supplementary scales

Psychopathology assessment through the MMPI®-2

• Analysis of MMRI®-2 representative clinical cases
• Coding of the MMPI®-2 diagram
• Presentation of cases

Writing a results report

• Ethics in the use of the MMPI®-2