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.

Dr. Dorr- Research examining the factor structure of the MCMI-III, and related projects.

Reginald AdKisson- Research examining the factor structure of the MACI. Research examining MACI and MMPI-A scales as predictors of adolescent inpatient stay.

Sonya Padilla - Research examining the relationship between schizophrenia and antisocial personality disorder in adolescents.

Robin Matson- Research examining the psychometric properties of the PSY5 Scales from the MMPI-2.

Dana Soetaert- Interest includes psychopathy, particularly as  it is assessed in adolescents.

Presentations

     Adkisson, R., Burdsal, C., Dorr, D., & Morgan, C.D. Using MMPI-A and MACI scales as predictors of adolescent psychiatric inpatient stay.  Presented at the 18th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Manhattan, NY, 2006

    Adkisson, R., Dorr, D., & Morgan, C.D. Second Order Factor Analysis of Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory. Presented at the 113th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, 2005.

    Adkisson, R., Dorr, D., & Morgan, C.D. Factor Analysis of Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory. Presented at the 17th. Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Los Angeles, CA, 2005.

    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., & Morgan, C. D. Contribution of MACI Personality Disorder Scales to Negative Treatment Indications. Presented at the 112th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2004.

     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.

    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.

     Morgan, C.D., Deselms, J. L., & Jones, T.L. Concordance between MMPI-A and MACI Modifier Indices in Psychiatric Inpatients. Presented at the 112th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2004.

    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., 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.

    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, Washington, DC, 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). Psychopathy 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.

     Schoenberg, M.R., Dorr, D.A., & Morgan, C.D. (2003). The ability of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory- 3rd Edition (MCMI-III) to detect malingering. Psychological Assessment, 15, 198-204.

     Schoenberg, M.R., Dorr, D.A., Morgan, C.D., & Burke, M. (in press). A comparison of the MCMI-III personality disorder and modifier indices with the MMPI-2 clinical and validity scales. Journal of Personality Assessment.