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The neuropsychological evaluation of any client may have multiple purposes. The early growth of the field of clinical neuropsychology as a separate area was stimulated by the work of Halstead (1947) and Reitan and Wolfson (1993) whose seminal Halstead-Reitan Battery (HRNB) changed the practice of neuropsychological assessment in clinical psychology. Before the HRNB, clinical psychologists would evaluate neuropsychological functioning incidentally as part of a more general population, gaining what information they could from an intelligence test with an added on test of general brain dysfunction such as the Bender-Gestalt or Memory for Designs (Golden et al. 1992).
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Golden, C.J., Lashley, L. (2014). Introduction. In: Forensic Neuropsychological Evaluation of the Violent Offender. SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04792-8_1
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