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Occupational, counseling and clinical psychologists may choose the MAT for assessment of special populations, especially the blind and visually impaired.
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Occupational psychologists may use the test to select persons for quickness, fluency, creativity, and empathic understanding.
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Counseling psychologists may employ the MAT to gauge narrative abilities and creativity for vocational decisions.
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Child clinical psychologists may use the test with children and adolescents for evaluation of attention, impulsivity, executive control, and fantasy.
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Clinical psychologists may use the instrument as part of a comprehensive psychological evaluation when convergent validity of findings is useful or important.
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Psychodynamic psychotherapists may employ the instrument to elicit client’s “frameworks of meaning”, psychodynamics, dispositional mood, emotional blockages, and defenses.
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Clinical psychologists may use the MAT for diagnostic assessment of alexethymia and autistic spectrum disorders.
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Neuropsychologists may employ the test to evaluate cross-modal transfer and speed of adaptation.
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Forensic examiners may use the test as a check on dissimulation from tests that may be easily faked.
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Clinical and counseling psychologists may use the test to identify narrative style and tailor interventions to how the respondent gives meaning to the stimuli.
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Clinical and counseling psychologists may use the MAT with persons from diverse environmental and cultural backgrounds because pictorial images are eliminated. Respondents create their own characters, plots, and settings.
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Psychologists may use the test to evaluate spontaneity and observe how the respondent imposes meaning upon emotionally laden ambiguous stimuli.
