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The Clinical Utility of Standardized or Flexible Battery Approaches to Neuropsychological Assessment

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Recently, Kane (1991) wrote an extensive review article on the matter of standard and flexible neuropsychological test batteries in which he described the two approaches to assessment, provided the historical backgrounds of both methods, and reviewed a number of tests commonly used in individualized or flexible assessments. In this chapter, I will be dealing with different but complementary matters. For the most part, the chapter will be devoted to a description of the two approaches and an examination of their theoretical foundations. It will be proposed that practice issues are of secondary significance, and that the question of whether one administers the same or different tests to every patient is a relatively trivial matter. It can be stipulated in advance that most practicing clinicians now use a combination of fixed and flexible assessment methods, and that fixed batteries, as strictly defined, are primarily used in research settings in which it is necessary to obtain a large database.

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Goldstein, G. (1997). The Clinical Utility of Standardized or Flexible Battery Approaches to Neuropsychological Assessment. In: Goldstein, G., Incagnoli, T.M. (eds) Contemporary Approaches to Neuropsychological Assessment. Critical Issues in Neuropsychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9820-3_3

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