The Neuropsychology Toolkit Guidelines, Formats, and Language [Hardcover]

This book provides information, guidelines, and materials to help future neuropsychology supervisees identify, understand, and avoid some of these problems and pitfalls. Also included are a neuropsychological questionnaire, short- and long-report formats, and sample statements that can be used to help with wording sections of the report that are particularly challenging to write.

Throughout the training and careers of psychology interns, postdoctoral fellows, and neuropsychologists, there are many errors and misconceptions that can diminish the quality of evaluations. This book offers guidelines and materials to help identify, understand, and avoid some of these problems.

Part I: NeuRules: Guidelines for Improving Assessment and Reporting Chapter 1: Pre-TestChapter 2: Interacting with OthersChapter 3: Managing Environmental Considerations?Chapter 4. Obtaining and Reporting Background InformationChapter 5: Selecting Tests and Categorizing Performance????Chapter 6: Testing, Interpreting, and Reporting ResultsChapter 7: Reporting Conclusions, Diagnoses, and Recommendations?????? Chapter 8: Writing EffectivelyChapter 9: Controlling QualityChapter 10: Post-Test??????Part II: Formats: Questionnaires and ReportsChapter 11?: Neuropsychological Questionnaire--Self-Report VersionChapter 12?: Neuropsychological Questionnaire--Family Report VersionChapter 13: Short Report FormatChapter 14: Long Report FormatPart III: LanguageChapter 15: ValidityChapter 16: Test ResultsChapter 17: ConclusionsChapter 18: RecommendationsAppendix: Scoring KeyIndex

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The Neuropsychology Toolkit: Guidelines, Formats, and Language provides the beginning clinician with the necessary and fundamental components of writing a concise, coherent, and interpretable neuropsychological evaluation. & Throughout the book, Wanlass makes extensive use of clinical examples for a range of situations that might be encountered during the neuropsychological asls8