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School Neuropsychology: A Practitioner's Handbook

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As the title states, this is "A Practitioner's Handbook" and an extremely useful one for the practicing School Psychologist or anyone involved with or interested in furthering their knowledge of School and Clinical Neuropsychology.

Likely one of the best School Neuropsychology resources to surface, I particularly found the Case Studies as well as the practical approach to disorders typically found in the schools (written language, reading, ADHD) useful in my own practice. The chapter entitled Linking Assessment to Intervention is tantamount to today's changing dynamic in the field and gives School Psychologists interested in Neuropsychology a solid conceptualization of appropriate service delivery in which the psychologist can intervene to assess as opposed to simply running everyday psychoeducational reports with figures nobody understands. The authors guide the practitioner to use effective pre-referral intervention programs to offset the tremendous amount of referrals seen in the schools today.

This is a well-researched and thorough handbook that has accomplished all the important groundwork to help guide School Neuropsychology into the future. I highly recommended it as a useful reference for any researchers and clinicians working with children and adolescents.

An old quote applies to this book, "The times they are a' changing". As the fields of education and neuroscience continue to merge, the information available in this book continues to be mainstreamed in the academic setting. Authored by two psychologists who are very knowledgeable about the subject, topics such as "assessment and intervention practices in educational settings", " a model of brain functioning", "neuropsychological approaches to assessment interpretation" , "linking assessment to intervention", "neuropsychological principles and psychopathology" are presented. Also, the neuropsychology of reading disorders, mathematical disorders, and written language disorders each receive their own special chapters. The notion that a fifteen point differential between IQ and achievement scores is long gone and the authors contribute to what could/should be presented in its place.

The notion that one can diagnose and treat a learning difficulty without any idea of underlying cognitive or neurological conditions is foolhardy and, in my opinion, irresponsible. Bringing the information into the classroom is tantamount if the educational system is to keep up with the current research as well as to service the needs of the students in that system.

I am a School Psychologist and this book was extremely helpful in teaching me the ways of neuropsych assessment. It's amazing how the brain works and how it has so much control over what we do. I would recommend this book to anybody interested in Neuropsychology!

Bought this book for a class--came earlier than expected, was in excellent condition, and was sold at a very fair price. Overall, very please with my purchase!

The book is in new condition, and delivery was right on time!