Clinical Neuropsychology : A Practical Guide to Assessment and Management for Clinicians

Featuring updates and revisions, the second edition of __Clinical Neuropsychology__ provides trainee and practicing clinicians with practical, real-world advice on neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation. * Offers illustrated coverage of neuroimaging techniques and updates on key neuro-pathological findings underpinning neurodegenerative disorders * Features increased coverage of specialist areas of work, including severe brain injury, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, assessing mental capacity, and cognitive impairment and driving * Features updated literature and increased coverage of topics that are of direct clinical relevance to trainee and practicing clinical psychologists * Includes chapters written by professionals with many years' experience in the training of clinical psychologists General introduction: what is the relevance of neuropsychology for clinical psychology practice? -- Neuroscience background -- Neuroanatomy and neuropathology -- Neurological investigations -- Neuropsychological assessment: general issues -- Psychological and psychiatric aspects of brain disorder: nature, assessment and implications for clinical neuropsychology -- Effects of prescribed and recreational drug use on cognitive functioning -- Quantitative aspects of neuropsychological assessment -- Adult neuropsychology -- Disorders of memory -- Disorders of language and communication -- Executive dysfunction -- Acquired disorders of voluntary movement -- Visuo-spatial and attentional disorders -- Disorders of number processing and calculation -- Neuropsychology: specialist areas of work -- Clinical neuropsychological assessment of children -- Neuropsychological assessment of older adults -- Neuropsychology of frontotemporal lobar degeneration: frontotemporal dementia, semantic dementia and progressive non-fluent aphasia -- Very severe and profound brain injury -- Neuropsychology and the law -- Mental capacity -- Rehabilitation -- Theoretical approaches to cognitive rehabilitation -- Planning, delivering and evaluating services -- Research design and outcome evaluation -- Interventions for psychological problems after brain injury -- Neurorehabilitation strategies for people with neurodegenerative conditions -- Driving in neurological patients This clear and accessible text provides trainee and qualified clinical psychologists with an up-to-date summary of neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation issues.

Although often viewed as a speciality within Clinical Psychology, knowledge of neuropsychology and its applications is relevant to all areas of clinical work where patients are showing some change in their cognitive functioning. This edited volume focuses on what the clinician needs to know in order to assess the cognitive functioning of their client and to consider rehabilitation and treatment options.

Readers will also find practical information concerning:

• newly developed neuroimaging techniques
• the effects of prescription and non-prescription drugs on cognitive functioning
• the interface between neuropsychological assessment and psychiatric disorders
• post-qualification training in clinical neuropsychology
• rules governing medico-legal work in civil cases in the UK

Laura H. Goldstein and Jane McNeil have many years of experience teaching neuropsychology to trainee and qualified clinical psychologists at the Institute of Psychiatry in London.