The Quantified Process Approach To Neuropsychological Assessment

by Poreh, Amir M.

• ISBN13: 9781841694566
• ISBN10: 1841694568
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-26
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

Since the late 1800s psychologists have been interested in discerning the strategies subjects employ to solve psychological tests (Piaget, 1928, Werner, 1940, Gesell, 1941). Much of this work, however, has relied on qualitative observations. In the 1970s, Edith Kaplan adopted this approach to the analysis of standardized neuropsychological measures. Unlike her predecessors, Dr. Kaplan and her colleagues emphasized the application of modern behavioral neurology to the analysis of the test data. Her approach was later termed the Boston Process Approach to neuropsychological assessment. While Edith Kaplan's work generates a great deal of enthusiasm, the qualitative nature of her analyses did not allow for its adoption by mainstream neuropsychologists. However, in recent years this limitation has begun to be addressed. Clinicians and researchers have developed new methodologies for quantifying the Boston Process Approach, leading to the emergence of a new field, which is collectively termed the Quantified Process Approach. Quantified Process Approach to Neuropsychological Assessment outlines the rationale for the emergence of this new approach and reviews the state of the art research literature and up to date clinical applications as they pertain to the evaluation of neuropsychiatric, head injured, and learning disabled patients. When available, norms and scoring forms are included in the appendices.

Table of Contents

List of figures	xi
List of tables	xiii
About the editor	xv
List of contributors	xvii
From the series editor	xix
Preface by David W. Loring	xxi
Part I Fundamentals	1	(42)
1 A brief introduction to the Quantified Process Approach	3	(14)
AMIR M. POREH
2 The historical antecedents of the Boston Process Approach	17	(10)
WILLIAM MILBERG AND NANCY HEBBEN
3 Methodological quandaries of the Quantified Process Approach	27	(16)
AMIR M. POREH
Part II The Satellite Testing Paradigm	43	(60)
4 The Oral Trail Making Test	45	(8)
BRADLEY N. AXELROD AND GREG J. LAMBERTY
5 Clinical applications of the Digit Symbol-Coding subtest	53	(30)
JOSEPH J. RYAN AND DAVID S. KREINER
6 The added value of a temporal-order judgment measure to the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (AVLT)	83	(10)
ELI VAKIL
7 Adaptation of the Hooper Visual Organization Test	93	(10)
MARIA T. SCHULTHEIS AND JOSEPH H. RICKER
Part III The Composition Paradigm	103	(146)
8 Memory performance indexes for the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test	105	(38)
JOHN L. WOODARD
9 Cognitive processes of verbal fluency tasks	143	(18)
ANGELA K. TROYER AND MORRIS MOSCOVITCH
10 Derived adult Trail Making Test indices	161	(12)
GREG J. LAMBERTY AND BRADLEY N. AXELROD
11 A review of quantified approaches to the qualitative assessment of clock drawing	173	(34)
HOLLY TUOKKO AND MEGAN E. O'CONNELL
12 Quantitative approaches to the analysis of block design performance	207	(18)
PAULA K. SHEAR AND AMY J. JAK
13 New indices of planning abilities using the Tower of London task	225	(24)
W. KEITH BERG, DANA L. BYRD, JOSEPH P.H. MCNAMARA, AND CHRISTINE A. MACDONALD
Part IV The Decomposition Paradigm	249	(32)
14 Quantification and validation of the Rey–Osterrieth global-local indices	251	(8)
AMIR M. POREH
15 Process index scores for the Halstead Category Test	259	(22)
DANIEL N. ALLEN, JOSHUA E. CARON, AND GERALD GOLDSTEIN
Part V Combining paradigms	281	(60)
16 Capturing process in complex figure scoring	283	(44)
ANITA M. HUBLEY
17 Measures of suboptimal performance derived from neuropsychological tests	327	(14)
DANIEL J. SLICK AND ESTHER STRAUSS
Afterword by Amir M. Poreh	341	(4)
Author index	345	(14)
Subject index	359