Personality Tests

In personality assessment there are two distinct types of measures: objective tests and projective tests. Objective tests, or questionnaires, are completed by the person being tested. The items are presented in a straightforward manner and their content is obvious. Projective tests attempt to assess a person’s feelings by examining how he/she projects his/her emotions onto largely neutral stimuli. Among the tests we most often use are:

Objective Tests

• Millon Adolescent Personality Inventory (MAPI)
• Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory, Third Edition (MCMI-III)
• Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Adolescent (MMPI-A)
• Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Second Edition (MMPI-2)
• Personality Inventory for Children, Second Edition (PIC-2), English and Spanish
• Personality Inventory for Youth (PIY), English and Spanish

Projective Tests

• Kinetic Family Drawing
• Kinetic School Drawing
• Roberts-2 Apperception Test
• Rorschach Inkblot Test
• Sentence Completion Test
• Thematic Apperception Test