6/5/2020 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly The data from MMPI-2 assessments are particularly useful in occupational health settings in complex presentations where doubt as to what is really wrong with the patient exists. For example, the MMPI-2 should normally be able to detect unconsciously somatizing or consciously malingering in patients. (Schretlen DJ. The use of psychological tests to identify malingered symptoms of mental disorder. Clin PsycholRev 1988; 8:451-476.) x x x It takes most people between 1 h and 90 min to complete the MMPI-2. xxxx The MMPI-2 is a 567 item, true/false self-report measure of a person's psychological state. It has nine validity scales (or 'lie' scales), assessing for lying, defensiveness, faking good and faking bad and among others (Butcher JN, Dahlstrom WG, Graham JR, Tellegen AM, Kreammer B. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 [MMPI-2] Manual for Administration and Scoring. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minneapolis Press; 1989). These scales make it very difficult to fake the MMPI-2 results. The measure has many clinical scales assessing mental health problems (i.e. depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder), personality characteristics (i.e. psychopathy) and general personality traits such as anger, somatization, hypochondriasis, 'type A behaviour' addiction potential, poor ego strength and many others. Drayton, M., The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2), © The Author 2009. © 2015 Society of Occupational Medicine. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Occupational Medicine. http://occmed. oxfordiournals. org/content/59/21 135.full Accessed July 9, 2015 from Oxford JournaIs>Medicine & Health>Occupational Medicine>Volume 59, Issue 2>Pp. 135-136. [27] Rollo, p. 105. [28] Id. [29] Id. at 106. [30] Id. [31] Id. at 181. [32] Id. [33] Id at 182. [34] Id. [35] Id. at 183. [36] Id. at 184. elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/61305 22/25