Personality Assessment in Managed Health Care
Subtitle: Using the MMPI-2 in Treatment Planning
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press; Clarendon Press
Published: July 31, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780195111606
First sentence: In the provision of mental health services, three traditional fields of endeavor intersect business management to coordinate funding resources, the practice of psychotherapeutic intervention, and personality assessment technology.
Description: James Butcher has assembled a highly respected group of contributors from academia, managed care, and full-time clinical practice to discuss the importance of psychological assessment, particularly through the use of MMPI-2. They argue that this assessment plays an indispensable role in managed care, both as an essential tool for evaluating the effectiveness of therapy and as a factor in the structuring and shortening of therapy.

By providing working examples of psychological treatment in the context of managed care, this book shows that the most effective treatments use personality assessment as their foundation.