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Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory

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MCMI; MCMI-II; MCMI-III; MCMI-IV

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The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI) is a comprehensive self-report personality assessment instrument that is currently in its fourth revision (MCMI-IV; Millon et al. 2015). The MCMI is intended to assist with personality interpretation, diagnosis, and treatment decisions for clinical populations. The MCMI-IV is designed to categorize clinical symptoms that align with the classification system of the Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association 2013) and the Tenth Edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10-CM; World Health Organization 2010). The MCMI-IV consists of 195 true-false items that address a wide range of personality characteristics and clinical symptomatology. It takes approximately 25–30 min to administer. It can be hand scored, computer scored, or scored with a mail-in service. Profile reports and interpretive reports...

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  1. Psychology Department, University of Illinois at Springfield, Springfield, IL, USA

    Sheryl Reminger

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Reminger, S. (2018). Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_1998

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