Cross-Cultural Application of the MMPI-2 and the Adaptation of the Minnesota Report Computer System for the MMPI-2 in Hong Kong

Fanny M. Cheung and James N. Butcher

This case book provides an overview of two increasingly related aspects of contemporary applied psychology: the exploration of computer-based psychological assessment strategies across cultures and the cross-cultural generalization of psychological constructs and procedures, particularly psychological assessment. In particular, this book is devoted to exploring the cultural generalizability in a Chinese context of the Minnesota Multiphasic Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) and the use of the Minnesota Report for the MMPI-2, the most widely used computer-based MMPI-2 interpretive system. Clinical case examples from Hong Kong highlight the cultural convergences and divergences that occur when using the Chinese version of the MMPI-2 versus the Minnesota Report.

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• Psychology

About the Author

Fanny Cheung is chairperson and professor in the Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. James N. Butcher is professor in the Department of Psychology, The University of Minnesota.

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