Category: The Clinical Neuropsychologist
The utility of neuropsychological consultation in identifying medical inpatients with suspected cognitive impairment at risk for greater hospital utilization
Learning Objectives: Explain the importance of demonstrating the efficacy and utility of neuropsychological assessment in the modern health care environment. Describe the basic components of a neuropsychological utility study, and factors possibly associated with higher healthcare costs.…
Conducting neuropsychological assessment with transgender individuals
Learning Objectives: 1. Describe cultural issues relevant to transgender individuals. 2. Identify bio-psycho-social factors which may be relevant when conducting neuropsychological evaluations with transgender individuals. Trittschuh, E. H., Parmenter, B. A., Clausell, E. R., Mariano,…
Developing a cultural context for conducting a neuropsychological evaluation with a culturally diverse client: the ECLECTIC framework
Learning Objectives: 1. Explain how neuropsychological testing is a western technology that is congruent with the values, knowledge, and experiences of western society, and that these characteristics are not universal. 2. Discuss how specific aspects…
Performance validity testing in neuropsychology: a clinical guide, critical review, and update on a rapidly evolving literature
Learning Objectives: 1. Describe important issues with regard to performance validity test selection, administration, interpretation, and feedback. 2. Explain the limitations of using performance validity tests with patients with dementia, patients with low intelligence, patients…
The statistical crisis in science: how is it relevant to clinical neuropsychology?
Learning Objectives: 1. Explain why critical appraisal of research methods and statistics is of importance for clinical neuropsychological practice. 2. Describe the current initiatives to solve the replication crisis and how to use them within…
Determination of the smoking gun of intent: significance testing of forced choice results in social security claimants
Learning Objectives: 1. Explain the rationale for using a p level of .20 when testing the significance of a below chance result on a forced choice performance validity test. 2. Discuss why raising the significance…
The effect of stereotype threat on older people’s clinical cognitive outcomes: investigating the moderating role of dementia worry
Learning Objectives: 1. Explain the possible influence of stereotype threat (ST) on neuropsychological assessment of older people. 2. Describe the purpose and the implications of moderation analyses. Fresson, M., Dardenne, B., Geurten, M., & Meulemans,…
Associations among parent–child relationships and cognitive and language outcomes in a clinical sample of preschool children
Learning Objectives: Discuss the importance of assessing parent-child interactions and their influence on cognitive development in young children with early neurological disorders. Identify whether parent-child relationship characteristics, particularly quality of the relationship, have measureable effects on preschool…
Assessing social cognition: Age-related changes in moral reasoning in childhood and adolescence
Learning Objectives: 1. Discuss the challenges of assessing MR in youth and how the So-Moral differs from previous MR tools. 2. Discuss the key concepts behind MR development in children and adolescents and its link…
Naturalistic tasks performed in realistic environments: a review with implications for neuropsychological assessment
Learning Objectives: Learn how research examining naturalistic tasks (e.g., cooking) performed in realistic environments relates to cognition and everyday functioning. Discuss the advantages and challenges for using naturalistic tasks in neuropsychological assessment. Robertson, K., &…