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Cognitive, Personality, and Psychosocial Factors in the Neuropsychological Assessment of Brain-Injured Patients

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Clinical Neuropsychology of Intervention

Abstract

The clinical neuropsychologist faced with the assessment of traumatic brain- injured adults (and other brain-dysfunctional patients) must eventually confront three interrelated diagnostic questions:

  1. 1.

    What is the nature and severity of higher cerebral dysfunction?

  2. 2.

    What is the patient’s personal reaction to these deficits?

  3. 3.

    What is the cumulative effect of these two dimensions on interpersonal or psychosocial adjustment?

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Division of Neurosurgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, USA

    Barbara P. Uzzell Ph.D. (Clinical Neuropsychologist Research Assistant Professor) (Clinical Neuropsychologist Research Assistant Professor)

  2. Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

    Yigal Gross Ph.D. (Senior Lecturer Director of Development and Training) (Senior Lecturer Director of Development and Training)

  3. The Neuropsychological Unit for Treatment and Rehabilitation, Givatayim, Israel

    Yigal Gross Ph.D. (Senior Lecturer Director of Development and Training) (Senior Lecturer Director of Development and Training)

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Prigatano, G.P., Pepping, M., Klonoff, P. (1986). Cognitive, Personality, and Psychosocial Factors in the Neuropsychological Assessment of Brain-Injured Patients. In: Uzzell, B.P., Gross, Y. (eds) Clinical Neuropsychology of Intervention. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2291-7_7

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