Clinical Neuropsychology: A Practical Guide to Assessment and Management for Clinicians
Laura H. Goldstein (Editor),
Jane E. McNeil (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-470-84391-8
Paperback
446 pages
December 2003
| Wiley List Price: | US $80.00 |
Laura H. Goldstein and
Jane E. McNeil have many years of experience teaching neuropsychology to trainee and qualified clinical psychologists at the Institute of Psychiatry in London.
Description
Clinical Neuropsychology A Practical Guide to Assessment and Management for Clinicians shows how knowledge of neuropsychological applications is relevant and useful to a wide range of clinicians. It provides a link between recent advances in neuroimaging, neurophysiology and neuroanatomy and how these discoveries may best be used by clinicians.
Anyone working with clients whose cognitive functioning shows some change and who needs to assess and make recommendations about rehabilitation and management will find this book essential reading.
- Practical focus on what is important for clinicians in each chapter
- Tackles both assessment issues and rehabilitation
- Distils findings from latest research and shows how they should be applied
- Wide range of applications, e.g. learning disabilities, ageing, problems in children
Contents
About the Editors vii
List of Contributors ix
Preface xi
Part I General Introduction 1
Chapter 1 General Introduction: What Is the Relevance of 3
Neuropsychology for Clinical Psychology Practice?
Laura H. Goldstein and Jane E. McNeil
Part II Neuroscience Background 21
Chapter 2 Neuroanatomy and Neuropathology 23
Nigel J. Cairns
Chapter 3 Neurological Investigations 57
John D. C. Mellers
Part III Neuropsychological Assessment—General Issues 79
Chapter 4 Psychological and Psychiatric Aspects of Brain Disorder: 81
Nature, Assessment and Implications for Clinical
Neuropsychology
Richard Brown
Chapter 5 The Effects of Medication and Other Substances on Cognitive 99
Functioning
Jane Powell
Chapter 6 Psychometric Foundations of Neuropsychological Assessment 121
John R. Crawford
Part IV Adult Neuropsychology 141
Chapter 7 Disorders of Memory 143
Jonathan J. Evans
Chapter 8 Disorders of Language and Communication 165
Pat McKenna
Chapter 9 Executive Dysfunction 185
Paul W. Burgess and Nick Alderman
Chapter 10 Disorders of Voluntary Movement 211
Laura H. Goldstein
Chapter 11 Visuospatial and Attentional Disorders 229
Tom Manly and Jason B. Mattingley
Chapter 12 Disorders of Number Processing and Calculation 253
Jane E. McNeil
Part V Neuropsychology: Specialist Areas of Work 273
Chapter 13 Clinical Neuropsychological Assessment of Children 275
Judith A. Middleton
Chapter 14 Neuropsychology of Older Adults 301
Robin G. Morris
Chapter 15 Neuropsychology and the Law 319
Graham E. Powell
Part VI Rehabilitation 343
Chapter 16 Theoretical Approaches to Cognitive Rehabilitation 345
Barbara A. Wilson
Chapter 17 Planning, Delivering and Evaluating Services 367
Camilla Herbert
Chapter 18 Interventions for Psychological Problems after Brain Injury 385
Andy Tyerman and Nigel S. King
Chapter 19 Neurorehabilitation Strategies for People with 405
Neurodegenerative Conditions
Esme Moniz-Cook and Jennifer Rusted
Index 421
