Personality Testing
What is Personality Testing?
Personality testing can describe an individual's characteristic pattern of behaviors, thoughts, and feelings. This pattern is often referred to as social and emotional functioning.
Personality testing can help in these areas:
- Understanding a child or adult's chronic emotional difficulties.
- Getting a better understanding of one's unhealthy behavior patterns.
- Identifying risk of engaging in harmful behaviors.
- Identifying obstacles to behavior change and personal growth.
- A general curiosity about who you are.
How Personality Testing Can Help?
Personality testing can help with:
- Guiding psychotherapy treatment planning.
- Evaluating participants in substance abuse or other addiction treatment programs.
- Providing valuable information for psychiatric and medication evaluations.
- Providing information in child custody cases, competency hearings, personal injury lawsuits and criminal hearings.
- Forensic risk assessments.
Instruments I Use for Personality Testing
- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory - II (MMPI-II)
- Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory - III (MCMI-III)
- Rorschach Inkblot Test
- Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
- House-Tree-Person Test
- Beck Depression Inventory
- Beck Anxiety Inventory