Forensic neuropsychology : fundamentals and practice /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sweet, Jerry J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lisse ; Exton (PA) : Swets & Zeitlinger, [1999]
Series:Studies on neuropsychology, development, and cognition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Fundamentals
  • Essential psychometrics / Stanley Berent, Christine L. Swartz
  • Base rates and clinical decision making in neuropsychology / Wm. Drew Gouvier
  • Considering premorbid functioning: beyond cognition to a conceptualization of personality in postinjury functioning / Steven H. Putnam ... [et al.]
  • Pt. 2. Practice expertise
  • The neuropsychological evaluation: clinical and scientific foundations / Eugene J. Rankin, Russell L. Adams
  • The measurement of personality and emotional functioning / Linas Bieliauskas
  • Interpreting apparent neuropsychological deficits: what is really wrong? / Thomas Kay
  • Complexities in the evaluation of executive functions / David C. Osmon
  • Ecological validity: prediction of everyday and vocational functioning from neuropsychological test data / Robert J. Sbordone, Thomas J. Guilmette
  • Malingering: differential diagnosis / Jerry J. Sweet
  • Cognitive psychophysiology in detection of malingered cognitive deficit / J. Peter Rosenfeld, Joel W. Ellwanger
  • Pt. 3. Relevant populations
  • Mild traumatic brain injury / Ronald M. Ruff, Ann M. Richardson
  • Neuropsychology and the (neuro)toxic tort / David E. Hartman
  • Special pediatric issues: neuropsychological applications and consultations in schools / Rudy Lorber, Helene Yurk
  • Pt. 4. Parameters of the forensic arena
  • The legal environment pertaining to clinical neuropsychology / J. Sherrod Taylor
  • The neuropsychologist as expert witness: toward credible science in the courtroom / Paul R. Lees-Haley, Larry J. Cohen.