Re: MBTI

[Harry Avis]

One could use anything as a starter in a therapy session. Horoscopes, ouiji boards, MBTI, MDMA, for that matter, as long as it is recognized as a technique which would lead to reflection and self examination. The problem is when people say, "well I know it doesn't have much validity and little reliability, but we will still use it to counsel students or select military training recruits. Then its high level of variabilty, faulty assumptions based on questionable Jungian theory become a real problem.



Harry Avis PhD
Sierra College
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Anything worth doing is worth doing at all

From: Paul Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MBTI
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:11:21 -0600

At 1:13 PM -0500 12/11/02, Esther Yoder Strahan wrote:

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For example, I have a couple of metaphors/allegories/illustrative tales that I occasionally use in therapy sessions. One could argue that I should not use those because their psychometric properties are completely unknown, and that I should just stick to my usual mostly-CBT repertoire. BUT often clients tell me how useful those stories were, how they helped them reframe a situation, etc.. [Yes, I understand the nature of this anecdotal evidence, so back off and let me complete my thought! >:) ....

What is happening here is a shift of the function of an instrument such as the MBTI from being a measure of behavior (a dependent variable) to being a prompt for further behavior (an independent variable).
This new function may be clinically useful, but has little in common (functionally) with the original use of the instrument.
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