Focus

    Currently the group consists of a mixture of the University of Kansas School of Medicine- Wichita Department of Psychiatry Staff and Wichita State University graduate students. The group is headed by Dr. Don Morgan and Dr. Darwin Dorr. The current research interests of the group involves an examination of the Millon Inventories (MCMI and MACI) and both the adult and adolescent versions of the MMPI. The data being collected consists of several years of archival data, which is currently in the process of being extracted and entered into a comprehensive data base.

 Active Research

    Dr. Morgan- Research examining the functioning of the validity indices of the MCMI-III with psychiatric inpatients who over-report, thereby exaggerating their symptoms.

    Matt Woolley- Interests include psychological measurement and personality disorders. Currently conducting a multitrait-mutimethod analysis of the convergent and divergent correlational relationships of the 10 DSM-IV personality disorders as measured by the MCMI-III and the Morey MMPI-2 and Ben-Porath MMPI-2 personality disorder scales.

    Mike Schoenberg- Research related to the Validity Scales of the MMPI-2. 

    Jason Deselms- Interested in the unique characteristics and issues related to diagnosing personality disorders in adolescents. Currently conducting a concurrent validational study which examines the degree to which the MACI covaries with the MMPI-A on conceptually similar and dissimilar scales.

    Carla Alcazar- Psychometric dimensions of depression, particularly in regard to examining the distinction between major depressive disorder, dysthymic disorder, and the concept of depressive personality disorder.

    Robin Matson- Examining the PSY5 scales on the MMPI-2.

Presentations

     Alcazar, C., Dorr, D., Deselms, J. L., & Morgan, C. D. Dimensions of Depression in Psychopathy in Psychiatric Inpatients. Presented at the 110th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, 2002.

     Deselms, J. L., Dorr, D., Morgan, C. D., & Woolley, M. M. Adolescent Depressive Personality Disorder Measured by the MACI and MMPI-A. Presented at the 110th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, 2002.

     Deselms, J. L., Woolley, M. M., Dorr, D., & Morgan, C. D. Contribution of MACI Personality Disorder Scales to Suicidal Tendencies. Presented at the 110th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, 2002.

   Deselms, J.L., Jones, T.L., Dorr, D., Alcazar, C.J. & Morgan, C.D. Dimensions of Depression and Psychopathy in Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients. Presented at the 111th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada, 2003.

    Deselms, J.L., Jones, T.L., Woolley, M.M., Dorr, D., & Morgan, C.D. Relationship of Suicidal Tendencies to Depression in Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients. Presented at the 111th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada, 2003.

    Woolley, M.M., Dorr, D., Morgan, C.D., Deselms, J.L., & Jones, T.L. Construct Validity of Three Sets of Personality Disorder Scales. Presented at the 111th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada, 2003.

    Dorr, D., Schoenberg, M. R., Morgan, C. D., & Woolley, M. M. Factor Structure of the MCMI-III in Psychiatric Inpatients. Presented at the 109th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA, 2001.

     Morgan, C. D., Deselms, J. L., Dorr, D., Girrens, K., & Woolley, M. M. Comparing Modifier Indices on the MMPI-A and MACI. Presented at the 109th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA, 2001.

    Schoenberg, M. R., Dorr, D., & Morgan, C. D. Detecting Malingering by the MCMI-III: A Malingering Study. Presented at the 109th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA, 2001.

    Schoenberg, M. R., Morgan, C. D., Dorr, D., & Suarez, M. Comparison of MMPI-2 and MCMI-III Fake-Bad Profiles. Presented at 107th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA, 1999.

    Woolley, M. M., Dorr, D., & Morgan, C. D. Psychometric Properties of the Morey-Derived MMPI-2 Personality Disorder Scales. Presented at the 108th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, 2000.

     Woolley, M. M., Dorr, D., Morgan, C. D., & Deselms, J. L. Comparison of Personality Disorder Scales of Morey, Millon, and Ben-Porath. Presented at the 110th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, 2002.

    Woolley, M. M., Dorr, D., Morgan, C. D., Schoenberg, M. R., & Deselms, J. L. Comparative Validity of the MCMI-III and MMPI-2 Personality Disorder Scales. Presented at the 109th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA, 2001.

Publications

    Dorr, D. (1997) Clinical integration of the MCMI-III and the comprehensive system Rorschach. In T. Millon (Ed.) The Millon Inventories: Clinical and personality assessment (pp. 75-105). New York: Guilford Press.

    Dorr, D. (1998). Psycopathy in the pedophile. In T. Millon, E. Simonsen, & M. Birket-Smith (Eds.), Psychopathy: Antisocial, violent, and criminal behavior (pp. 304-320). New York: Guilford Press.

    Dorr, D. (1999). Approaching psychotherapy of the personality disorders from the Millon perspective. Journal of Personality Assessment, 72(3), 407-425.

   Morgan, C. D., Schoenberg, M. R., Dorr, D., & Burke, M. J. (2002). Over-Report on the MCMI-III: Concurrent Validation with the MMPI-2 Using a Psychiatric Inpatient Sample. Journal of Personality Assessment 78(2), 288-300.