A norm-referenced communication assessment tool, this work focuses specifically on measuring young children's motor control and identifying impairments that may lead to a speech delay or disorder.
Presents the legal and clinical foundations of neuropsychology practice in criminal forensic cases. This book reviews the case law and constitutional principles and provides guidance for conducting assessments that address legal standards, such as competency to confess, competency to proceed, criminal responsibility, and sentencing concerns.
The human brain is the most complex object in the universe. This book on the science of the brain explores the findings on a host of topics: Consciousness, unconsciousness, and brain death; Learning, memory, and role of genes; Motivation, aggression, and the range of emotions; The plasticity of the growing brain; and Mental illness and treatment.
Examining brain-behavior relationships in atypically developing children, this volume integrates theories and data from multiple disciplines. It presents research on specific clinical problems, including autism, Williams syndrome, learning and language disabilities, ADHD, and issues facing infants of diabetic mothers.
What the Science Shows, and What We Should Do about It
While knowledge on substance abuse and addictions is expanding rapidly, clinical practice still lags behind. This book incorporates developmental, neurobiological, genetic, behavioral, and social-environmental perspectives, and talks, among the other things, about the nature and causes of alcohol and other drug problems.
This work covers the psychosocial and physiological influences affecting spinal surgery - from evaluation to preparation and post-operative rehabilitation. It should be useful for psychologists, orthopaedists, neurosurgeons, physicians and nurses, as well as students.
Despite its avowed shift away from behaviouristic ways of thinking, psychology today, according to Rychlak, is essentially mechanistic. But while biological and automatic processes clearly have vital uses, they are unable to fully account for such phenomena as free will and agency.
This book shows how the principles and emerging findings of psychoneuroendocrinology can inform modern clinical practice and lead to breakthroughs in science and practice. Meticulously detailed sections are categorized by endocrine system, with sections on clinical and laboratory assessments and on the role of stress in susceptibility to disease.
A comprehensive review of the research on etiology and treatment of this chronic condition for which there is no known apparent cure. Leading researchers examine a new generation of models and theories with a level of specificity far beyond what was heretofore imagined possible.
