Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Psychological Testing Requirement In Adoption From Korea.

We were informed a month or two ago that Korea now requires two psychological tests in order to adopt. This is what we are required to get:


  1. A clinical interview with your psychologist –Mandatory
  2. MMPI-II (Results and Narrative)-Mandatory
  3. One of the following four tests – MCMI, CAPI, 16PF or SCT (psychologist to include why they chose this particular test to perform.)

I have already had my clinical interview. I thought I was just going to go in to talk about what we needed and get a time frame but we ended up doing the interview and it only took about an hour. It was also nice that I didn't have time to over think it and worry before the appointment. My husband still has to do his interview.

Next we go in to do the MMPI-II and another test, not sure which the psychologist chose. She said the tests would be true/false and multiple choice. Have any of y'all done the tests yet? Are they hard? WHat kind of questions do they ask. It just seems strange to take a test about yourself as someone who wanted to could lie. I think it would make more since to have lots of people who know you have to fill out affidavits about your character (that is what we had to do for the Bar exam and it makes more since than this to me). Or to have them answer a bunch of questions about you. Sadly there is no sure fire way to make sure that an adoptive parent (or anyone) is not crazy or will not snap and go crazy at some later date. 

Anyway if any of you have done the testing (or are in the process of adopting from Korea) please share your impressions in the comments. 

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