Assessing Adolescents with the MACI Using the Millon Adolescent Clinical Invetory

"Assessing Adolescents with the MACI" is an interpretive guide for using the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory- the most widely used personality assessment test for adolescents. The first book devoted exclusively to the MACI, this resource will prove a helpful guide for understanding the test, interpreting the results in clinical evaluation, and making appropriate recommendations for treatment and care management. Unlike other assessment tests developed for adults and adapted for adolescents, the MACI was created to address the unique concerns, pressures, and situations of adolescents. The MACI is also constructed using an underlying theory of personality and psychopathology. The MACI is a 160-item, 31-scale self report inventory that was designed to assess personality styles, significant problems or concerns, and clinical symptoms in adolescents. Using a true false format, the MACI surveys a wide range of personality characteristics and clinical symptoms that tend to be a focus inpsychological evaluations of teenagers that either have or are suspected of having emotional or behavioral difficulties. While multi-scale personality inventories such as the MACI are useful for improving the clinician's understanding of an adolescent's personality and clinical symptoms, there are other reasons for using such instruments. The MACI can be used to formulate diagnostic hypotheses, confirm clinical diagnoses, formulate treatment plans, or assist in decisio

JOSEPH T. McCANN, PsyD, JD, has a private clinical and forensic psychology practice in Binghamton, New York, and has collaborated on the MACI with Theodore Millon, the author of the test. Dr. McCann is also the author of Malingering and Deception in Adolescents and Forensic Assessment with the Millon Inventories.