Profile validity standards for MMPI and MMPI-2 F scales.

Although numerous indices of validity have been developed for the MMPI and MMPI-2, interest in the F scale and its variants continues, especially among practicing clinicians. The use of the binomial for assessing standards for random answering and possibly for judgments of malingering offers another approach for the interpretation of F-scale scores. The theoretical binomial distribution and Monte Carlo data are in accord.

MMPI scores of female victims.

Samples of MMPIs of women who were victims of abuse or manifested a Posttraumatic Stress Disorder were drawn from two private practice settings, one urban and one in a small town. Each PTSD sample included 21 persons. For comparison, two contrast samples of 15 persons each were drawn from the same populations.

Neuropsychological and academic achievement correlates of abnormal WISC-R verbal-performance discrepancies.

This study examined neuropsychological and academic achievement correlates of statistically abnormal VIQ less than PIQ discrepancies on the WISC-R in a sample of 53 hospitalized children. Of 17 neuropsychological measures, only aphasia errors was associated with VIQ. Academic achievement measures of reading, spelling, and arithmetic were associated with abnormal VIQ less than PIQ discrepancies.

Thought disorder in hospitalized alcoholics.

In order to assess the occurrence and persistence of thought disorder in patients in an alcoholism treatment program, a sample of 81 males were tested at the beginning of treatment and again after 4 weeks. The Whitaker Index of Schizophrenic Thinking (WIST) was used as the indicator of thought disorder, with the following results: (1) the presence of thought disorder, in both the initial testing and the retesting; (2) a mildly significant reduction in impairment scores over the 4-week period; and (3) only a small proportion of the sample (11% of the initial testing and 17% of the second) evidencing no thought disorder. The implication for planning treatment is that complex, cognitive interventions may be ineffective in groups of alcoholic patients, even when the patients have been "detoxed.