Testimony based on the millon clinical multiaxial inventory: Review, commentary, and guidelines

Test results from the MCMI have been ruled admissible in court for a variet y of clinical and forensic issues. This article addresses MCMI issues such as the test's applicability and admissibility of test results in forensic e valuations, test administration, test scoring, malingering and deception, p rediction and diagnosis of behavior, reliability, validity, operating chara cteristics and diagnostic efficiency statistics, and use of computer-assist ed interpretation of test results for forensic presentation. Recommendation s are suggested for dealing with each of these issues in a forensic context .