A quick overview of some of the most commonly used instruments to assess for mental illness. Helpful for study for the NCMHCE or similar exams.

2.  Intelligence
 Cognitive Functioning
 Mood
 Mental Status
 Medical Evals
 History ofTreatment
 Relationships/Social Skills
 Lifestyle

3. 1. Minnesota Multiphasic
Personality Inventory
2. Bender Gestalt
3. Beck Depression Inventory
4.Wechsler Adult Intelligence
Scale-R
5.Wechsler Intelligence Scales
6. Sentence Completion
7. Rorschach InkblotTest
8.Thematic Apperception
Test
9. Millon Clinical Multiaxial
Inventory (I & II)
10. MacAndrew Alcoholism
Scale
11. Children’s Depression
Inventory
12. Symptom Checklist-90R

4.  Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory
 MMPI
 Structured Clinical Interview

5. Evaluation of orientation, memory, and severity
and consistency of cognitive impairment.
 Is the person's short-and long-term memory
impaired
 Impairment in abstract thinking, impaired
judgment, other disturbances of higher
cortical function
 Personality change?
 What is the mood and affect of the client?

6. Definition:
 Used to assess neuropsychological development in preschool and
school-age children, 3-16 years of age.
 Useful for aiding in diagnoses and intervention planning for
particular disorders (Disorders: Academic, social, and behavioral
difficulties)
 Subtest scores are useful in suggesting or supporting a diagnosis
for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), Pervasive
Developmental Disorder (e.g., Asperger’s Disorder, Autistic
Disorder), Language Disorder, Mathematics Disorder, and
Reading Disorder).
 Also useful for general assessment, diagnostic assessment.
 Assesses attention and executive functioning, language, memory
and learning, sensorimotor, social perception, and visuospatial
processing.

7. Test that measures visual-motor integration skills in
children and adults from 4 to 85.
It has been used for the identification of mental
retardation, disabilities, reading difficulties, personality
dynamics, and diagnosis of organic brain abnormality,
psychotic dysfunctioning, anxiety states, psychosomatic
conditions, sexual disturbances, cultural differences, and
psychoneurotic conditions, characterological defects
including alcoholism, malingering and physiological
alterations.The majority of interpretations are directed
at organic brain pathology.

8. Original research in behavior with this test was
conducted with borderline, depressed mood,
eating disorders, homicidal behavior, manifest
aggression, victimization by incest and sexual
abuse, sleeping problems, physical disabilities,
and schizophrenia.

9. Scales:
Axis I: Anxiety, Somatoform, Bipolar: Manic, Dysthymia, Alcohol
Dependence, Drug Dependence, Posttraumatic
Stress Disorder,Thought Disorder (Schizophrenia, Schizophreniform),
Major Depression, and Delusional Disorder.
Axis II:
Schizoid Personality, Avoidant Personality, Depressive Personality,
Dependent Personality, Histrionic
Personality, Narcissistic Personality, Antisocial Personality, Sadistic
Personality (Aggressive), Compulsive Personality, Negativistic
Personality (Passive-Aggressive), Self-Defeating Personality
(Masochistic),
Severe:
Schizotypal, Borderline, and Paranoid.

10. A 21 item self-report inventory that measures the
severity of depression in adults and
adolescents (13 and older).
*It is not an instrument strictly for diagnosing
clinical depression rather according to the authors
can be used for assisting in diagnosing disorders
from panic disorder to schizophrenia.
A total raw score of 63 points and scores of 20-28
are considered moderate and 29-63 severe.

11. The use is to screen and integrate data into the
interview.
Frequently the client has provided stimuli of
distress (why in counseling), unsure why they
are there, and indicate a desire to
free the self of the burden.
The SCLA-90-R elicits information regarding
psychological distress and psychopathology.

12. Structured, self-report test and screens for
substance dependent disorder.
(impulsiveness, low frustration tolerance, and
self-pity)

13. A set of questions to be used
in conjunction with the Bipolar
Spectrum Diagnostic Scale
Scales:
 Mood episodes
 Psychotic symptoms
 Psychotic disorders
 Mood disorders
 Substance use disorders
 Anxiety
 Adjustment disorders
Designed to measure
dissociative disorders
used for
 Depression
 Bipolar
 Eating disorders
 Obsessive-compulsive
spectrum disorders

14.  The results are designed to determine the
presence or absence of bipolar disorder

15.  Self report scales for parents of their children
ages 7-17

16.  A questionnaire and one of the most widely
used in anxiety research
 For ages 6-19.

17.  This instrument can be used to evaluate the
behavior and self-perceptions of children.

18.  Purpose is to screen
and assess behavior
problems
 clinical tool for
obtaining parental,
teacher and adolescent
reports of childhood
behavior problems
 ADHD and related
issues
 Depression
 Anxiety
 social skills
 strengths, etc.

19. Self rate in 4 groups of manifestations:
 Cognitive
 Autonomic
 Motor
 Central nervous system symptoms