Daniel K Reinstein, Dawn E Burau

Integrating Neuropsychological and Psychological Evaluations

Assessing and Helping the Whole Child

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Integrating Neuropsychological and Psychological Assessments is a resource for neuropsychologists, psychologists, teachers and parents who wish to address both the neurologically- and emotionally-based difficulties with which their children are presenting. In addition to a thorough description of neuropsychological and psychological assessment tools, this book also provides professionals with a unified approach to using the results from assessments to understand and integrate cognitive, behavioral, social and emotional functioning in school-age children. It posits that to educate and treat children who are struggling in school due to unique cognitive or emotional vulnerabilities, the whole child must be considered to decipher their needs and implement interventions. Cultivating a therapeutic relationship that integrates the emotional and relational functioning of the child enhances both their learning and ability to successfully navigate the world.

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This book documents the necessity for assessing both the neuropsychological and psychological status of the child as a means to both better understand his or her needs and better implement interventions. The authors detail the process of evaluating the child in the realms of cognition, executive functioning, language, learning, memory, and visual motor integration, the standard domains of a typical neuropsychological evaluation. They also describe the process of testing emotional and social functioning in depth, and then integrating these with all of the above domains to describe the impact on the child¿s functioning in the real world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780415708876
• ISBN-10: 0415708877
• Artikelnr.: 40029569

Autorenporträt

Daniel K. Reinstein, PhD, holds an adjunct faculty position in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. He is the Clinical Director and Director of Research at the Community Therapeutic Day School, a small private school for neurologically and emotionally troubled children. Dawn E. Burau, LMHC and SpEd, is Adjunct Faculty at Lesley University in the Graduate School of Expressive Therapy and, over the last ten years, has worked as a therapeutic teacher at the Community Therapeutic Day School and has consulted to both public and private schools.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Bruce Hauptman 1. Introducing the Whole Child: Cognition,
Behavior, and Emotion 2. Assessing and Understanding the Whole Child: The
Complete Neuropsychological Evaluation 3. Understanding and Assessing
Cognition 4. Understanding and Assessing Executive Functions 5.
Understanding and Assessing Memory 6. Understanding and Assessing Visual
Motor Functioning 7. Understanding and Assessing Academic Skills 8.
Understanding and Assessing Emotional Functioning 9. Putting it all
Together: Feedback and the Report as a Therapeutic Intervention 10. Putting
it into Action: Translating Evaluation Results into the Classroom and Home
11. Behind the Scenes: Legal Ramifications 12. Overview of the Whole Child
and Case Conclusion Appendix Index