Authors:Barbara A. Wilson, Camilla M. Herbert, Agnes Shiel,
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: rehabilitation, neuropsychological, modular, handbook, procedures, optimising, behavioural, approaches
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2003-11-19
List price: $54.50
ISBN-10: 1841691836
ISBN-13: 9781841691831

The potential of behavioural approaches for improving the lives of people with acquired brain injury is immense. Here that potential is laid out and explored with a thorough going regard for clinical practice and the theoretical frameworks that

Authors:Peter Gregor, Alan Newell,
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: rehabilitation, neuropsychological, special, issues, cognitive, issue, technology
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2004-09-02
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 1841699608
ISBN-13: 9781841699608

This volume explores the potential of information technology to provide support for people with cognitive dysfunction.

Authors:Linda Clare, Robert T. Woods,
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: rehabilitation, neuropsychological, special, issues, dementia, issue, cognitive
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2001-08-31
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 1841699128
ISBN-13: 9781841699127

The relevance of cognitive rehabilitation for people with dementia is becoming increasingly accepted by researchers and practitioners in the field. This special issue draws together examples of state-of-the-art research and systematic review by experts in this exciting and growing area.The contributors show how cognitive rehabilitation approaches can be applied, in different ways, to help optimise functioning and address specific difficulties across the full spectrum of severity. While the main focus is on the more commonly diagnosed forms of dementia, treatment possibilities for people with f

Author: Ida Sue Baron
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: child, evaluation, neuropsychological, baron
Number of Pages: 454
Published: 2003-10-02
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 019514757X
ISBN-13: 9780195147575

George Washington Univ., Washington, D.C. Presents normative data for the neuropsychological tests most commonly used with children. Integrates the concepts and models central to the neuropsychological assessment of children into discussions of data, with clinical focus. DNLM: Neuropsychological Tests--standards--Child.

Author: Muriel Deutsch Lezak
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: assessment, neuropsychological
Number of Pages: 1056
Published: 1995-03-02
List price: $79.00
ISBN-10: 0195090314
ISBN-13: 9780195090314

Now with more than double the number of references than the previous edition, this landmark volume has been updated to address current assessment techniques and procedures.

Author: George P. Prigatano
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: rehabilitation, neuropsychological, principles
Number of Pages: 374
Published: 1999-07-08
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0195081439
ISBN-13: 9780195081435

Without guiding principles clinicians can easily get lost in the maze of problems that a brain-damaged patient presents. This book underlines the importance of patients subjective experience of brain disease or injury, and the frustration and confusion they undergo. It shows that the symptom picture is a mixture of premorbid cognitive and personal characteristics with the neuropsychological changes directly associated with brain pathology. By closely observing the patients behavior the clinician can teach him or her about the direct and indirect effects of brain damage. The book provides gui

Author: Glenn J. Larrabee
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: deficits, neuropsychological, malingered, assessment
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2007-07-16
List price: $74.95
ISBN-10: 0195188462
ISBN-13: 9780195188462

Written specifically for the clinical neuropsychologist who does forensic consultations, the book is a comprehensive review by experts of the procedures available to evaluate malingered neuropsychological deficits. It discusses tools for detecting atypical patterns of performance on standard clinical tests as well as malingering on measures of perception and sensorimotor function, of attention, processing speed, and memory, and of executive function. The underpinnings of the forensic neuropsychology enterprise are presented in chapters on definitions of malingering, research designs for its