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Public Policy and Legal Issues for Clinical Child Neuropsychology

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Clinical child neuropsychology has a myriad of forces that create countervalences for its definition, identity, and placement in human services. While clinical neuropsychology, broadly defined, is still striving to establish itself as capable of fulfilling a function on behalf of human welfare, as would be distinct from neurology, it must also justify being a specialization within clinical, counseling, and school psychology. In turn, clinical child neuropsychology must deal with the same issues, but must also carve out its uniqueness from clinical adult neuropsychology.

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Woody, R.H. (1989). Public Policy and Legal Issues for Clinical Child Neuropsychology. In: Reynolds, C.R., Fletcher-Janzen, E. (eds) Handbook of Clinical Child Neuropsychology. Critical Issues in Neuropsychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6807-4_31

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