Can I receive an interpretive report (not a corrections report) for an examinee in a Correctional Inmate setting?
Yes. When the Correctional Inmate setting is indicated, the clinician can choose to receive either the MCMI-III Interpretive Report or the Corrections Report. If an MCMI-III Interpretive Report is generated for the Correctional Inmate setting, the original psychiatric norms will be used. The only difference between an interpretive report for this setting and one for any other setting is that the examinee is referred to as an “inmate” rather than as a “patient.” If the corrections report is generated, the correctional norms will be used. Is there research to support the usefulness of the MCMI-III Corrections Report in prison systems? In a large-scale study, the MCMI-III test scores of over 10,000 state prison inmates tested at intake were compared to important outcomes obtained from the state’s inmate management system in the areas of mental health, substance abuse, and violence. Scores on many of the individual MCMI-III scales showed strong predictive relationships with outcomes such a
