Clinical Neuropsychology: A Pocket Handbook For Assessment
Clinical Neuropsychology: A Pocket Handbook For Assessment Books
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A matter-of-fact reference source for neuropsychologists, interns, and trainees working in hospitals, with over 100 quick-reference tables, lists, diagrams, photos, and choice trees.
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The book was as excellent as the seller said it would be and it shipped quickly. What else do you need?
Rating: 5 / 5
Truly a handbook, i.e. brief and comprehensive, this volume can be beneficial to a broader group of professionals than the primary medical staff. Starting with how to’s for content rich charting and other record maintenance the book also provides lists of medical abbreviations.
The book is organized by diagnostic category with the subspecialties and their unique presentations are also provided. The ‘appearance’ of the shape up as well as the features that distinguish it from another can be the difference between needing to call a code or needing to make a page that may take hours to resolution. The authors also provide checklists whenever applicable. Most line staff will be able to comprehend enough of what is pertinent to inform their management style and to discriminate pertinent details for treatment docs. Why not teach them?
In partial programs, sheltered workshops and residential treatment, supported living etc., the nature of psychiatry is such that many different classifications and treatment plans are joined in one service and in one building. The qualifications of staff- at best- are not up to par in neurology. This book can provide some help and when augmented with staff training, the treatment setting is likely to be more secure and productive.
The well loved pediatrician in unique ed., Mel Levine, is attempting to rebuild the role and qualifications for teachers in this manner. He uses a medical-like develop for his training programs. If “hands-on” may possibly be applied to neurology education Levine certainly succeeds. His program exposes teachers to the shape up first, they go to an on-site sickbay and residential diagnostic unit where they review charts, meet the child, make observations and dialogue about programs of accomodation and remediation. At the school, they further observe the learning differences and their behavioral co-morbid or psychiatric symptoms. They become familiar with more than a definition, (After all, no one really has figured out the Disorder of Written Expression- everyone has a different version and none matter when it comes to the poor child stuck with it.)Levine’s fortunate few must come up with concise explanation, what’s incorrect, strengths and weaknesses and an integrated response. That can be expanded to several unique arenas and adjunctive therapies.
In summary, this is an brilliant brief and handy pocket handbook and one that would be well-placed for staff providing different therapies and/or manageing a unit to review and refer to below many circumstances. Nursing homes, unique education settings, trauma rehabs and psychiatric units will all find relevant and highly understandable details here. The federal entitlement for Early Intervention is another woefully neglected subgroup. Unique educators, poorly paid and with high turnover, are the primary therapists and team leaders with at-risk and medically fragile infants and toddlers. They go into homes, often impoverished, and provide services, developmental activities and do assessments. They have many checklists and standardized tests which are on the whole, completed carefully. Yet there are so many other things, not necessarily on those tests, but enormously vital that are outside of their professional scope. This book has vital explanations nearly Toxic Exposure, symptoms and ‘mimic’ conditions. The substance abuse sections too are vital for professionals evaluating a maternal child relationship or in cases of an addicted family member. There is high frequence for fetal substance abuse conditions and HIV genetically transmitted diagnoses. These generally courageous and devoted staff see siblings who manifest behaviors or motor skills that may be uniquely relevant to understanding the baby. But they do not either know or feel comfortable speculating- so they ignore it.
Without insulting these authors, who are experts in their field and darn excellent writers- I urge those readers who influence some of the areas I mentioned above to read not only with an eye for their own improvement but the ways that written in this way, this book has promise for a far greater target audience.
Rating: 5 / 5
Dr. Snyder is clearly a clinical genius. His grasp of current do and technique demonstrates a clarity of understanding for the human psyche. Not since Dr. Rubin’s seminal work has the field of Neuropsychology been so comprehensively condensed into such mind-bogglingly simple prose.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is very informative and easily understood. I have gleemed so much in rank and more in depth understanding in how our brains work with many disorders. Brilliant reading and learning!
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a well-written neuropsychology assessment textbook that fits into a tiny format with small type that I can barely read (especially as I have grown older). It is not a “pocket guide”. There is now so much content that the binding is about 3in thick. I don’t have a pocket it fits into. This is a shame since it is one of the better assessment guides. The authors either have to go with an outline oriented pocket guide, like many I see in other medical areas, or simply publish the content as a fixed book. I prefer the latter because I try to teach assessment from this guide and the authors would presumably have the book space to bestow more in rank and illustrations. This is probably the best assessment guide nearly. Lezak’s Neuropsych Assessment is now upwards of 10 lbs and covers too much material in neurological illness and neuroanatomy. These areas are covered better in other books. We need a guide like this one that is a bit longer and published in a conventional format.
Rating: 4 / 5