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A 5 page research paper that first offers an abstract of a case study of a woman seeking therapy to help her with her familial and interpersonal relationships. Then, the writer describes 3 forms of adult personality assessment that may aid a therapist in implementing the care plan described. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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familial situation and recounts the series of failed relationships that accounts for the clients biography to-date. This includes several common-law marriages that resulted in children, but none of these relationships
resulted in legal marriage. The longest relationship was the clients second, which lasted roughly seven years and resulted in the birth of a son. The client wishes to cultivate the
skills to maintain a healthy relationship with a man and establish a healthy relationship with her extended family. The client has been suffering from depressive episodes that appear to be
the result of frustration. The therapist plans on utilizing a model of differentiation of self, which will include triangulation strategies, in order to help the client maintain a sense
of identity integration when faced with group influences. Therapy will include family sessions. The plan of care includes establishing goals for the client and her family and also includes the
interventions and therapeutic models to be utilized. Therapy will focus on establishing trust and on helping the client to become solution oriented. Adult Personality Assessment Instruments that will be
used to facilitate implementing this plan of care include the following: The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is the most broadly utilized clinical
testing instrument in the United States (Nurse and Sperry, 2004). First developed by Starke Hathaway and Charnley McKinley in 1943, a revised version, the MMPI-2, was released in
1989 (Nurse and Sperry, 2004). This is a standardized inventory that provides a quantitative evaluation of "psychological symptoms, emotional adjustment and psychopathology" (Nurse and Sperry, 2004, p. 66).
It is designed to provide clinicians with a personality screen assessment for individuals who are over 18 years of age. The MMPI is available in a Spanish version; however,
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