PSYC31H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Neuropsychological Assessment, Cognitive Deficit, Neuropsychology
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Psyc31 chapter 4: rationale of deficit measurement: one distinguishing characteristic of neuropsychological assessment emphasis on the identification and measurement of psychological (cognitive and behavioral) deficits. It"s i(cid:374) deficiencies and dysfunctional alterations of cognition, emotionality, self-direction and management (i. e. , executive functions) that brain disorders are manifested behaviorally: neuropsychological assessment is also concerned with the documentation and description of, preserved functions. In assessments focused on delineating neuropsychological: whether for, making a diagnostic discrimination, evaluating legal competency or establishing a legal claim, attempting to understand a patient"s aberrant behavior. Identifying rehabilitation needs: the examiner still has an obligation to patients and caregivers to identify and report preserved abilities and behavioral potentials, brain damage always implies behavioral impairment, a careful assessment will probably reveal an underlying loss. In many cases, these will be nonexistent or difficult to obtain: therefore examiner must use indirect methods of deficit assessment from which individual comparison standards can be inferred.
