Strengths And Weaknesses Of MACI Inventory Assessment

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Test Description The MACI consists of a 160-item inventory, provided in the English and Spanish language, with a combination of the 27 subscales. The intention of the inventory is to provide counselors and other healthcare or school professional with information to assist in diagnosis and treatment planning for personality disorders in adolescent (Millon & Davis, 1993). The inventory consists of true or false questions; given that this inventory is shorter compared to other personality assessment, it only takes about 20-30 minutes to complete. Millon’s MACI inventory provides convenient and cost-effective methods for scoring the inventory, which include Q-global web-based scoring, Q-Local software-based scoring, and mail-in scoring. Since the MACI is tailored toward adolescents ranging in ages from 13-19, participants must have a minimum of a sixth grade reading level in order to …show more content…

A notable strength of the MACI inventory is the ease of it all. The tests consist of true or false questions, it is only 20-30 minutes long, and it provides easy and comprehendible assessment question suitable for the age group. A noteworthy weakness, however, is that the MACI inventory is its method of comparing adolescents to a particular population rather a norming population; it limits the amount of more useful information that can be obtained. Tringone and Bockian (2015) suggest that in assessing the MACI with adolescent of differing cultural background, distinct cultural factor can affect the overall results (p. 569). Increasing the norming group would provide a more extensive, more approachable, and formative result. Despite its shortcomings, the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory serves its purpose in providing counselors and other trained professional working with adolescents with helpful assessment results, which ultimately helps in formulating treatment

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