Overruled. . .
JM- issue about MMPI . . . one of the thngs . . personality . . I started to say jerk . .what is it exactly do you mean? not usethat term . . . . I would say aggressiveness . . . personality trait . . when does personality traits start . .develop early . . .temperament in toddler years . . continues to develop in childhood and adolescents and becomes firm in adulthood.
situation person is depressed . . . .that is situational . . . I would look @ patterns of behavior
Axis 1 - disorder . . . transient disorders . . clinical disorder
Axis - personality disorder and mental retardation
depressed and in jail .. . . personality?
no indication depression in the past = I would label it non-personality
how important for forensic setting.
look @person in sutaiotn in maladaptive way . . .. the personality trait is not helpful to them - impairment in their life (people in their life cause stress to).
567 questions?
gave test to JA . . . true or false . . . mostly true or mostly false to her
would you read questions to her and write it on legal pad vs. answer sheet.
no - put it thru computer twice - so no error entering it.
MCMI . . . similar .. .a number of scales identified on there.
a section . . group of answers into meaningful categories . . . ie: depression or somaticize - somatic symptoms . . ..
validity scale .. . tells us what the test taker approach is . . . whether they tried to not answer appropriately . . ..
9 validity scales . .. she was able to use results f the tests. . .
other scales?
clinical scales - primary areas looed @ . . . looked@ them all but 10 scales . . . why important to you?
face validity . . .. look @ items on a test . . . .
ie: high face validity . . . I cry all th time . . .tends to say depression or not.
with regard to defendant 10 clinical scales.. .. results of her MMPI . . . there are 10 scales. .. of ten we see 3 or 4 elevations . . .a tap on shoulder - something going on this domain . . .
the number 65 is the thresh hold . . .above may indicate something . . .
7 of the 10 scales. . . majority of them above the thresh hold
mean to you . . read materials, clinical interview and now have this elevation?
because 7 scales . . a lot of data to look @
I then examined top 2 or 3 - able to interpret into personality profile.
people with personality profile do relatively good job of hiding from others but still experiencing anger emotion . . wrong in some kind of way from someone . . violent oubursts . . .seething very angry . . .externalize blame - someone else did something to me .. .conceptualize it an justify it in their mind .. . .
she internalized the anger?
objection -this is generalized not specific to JA
Lunch recess - counsel please approach
Let me guess . . . . Intermittent Explosive Personality D/O???
