About the Book
The Boston Process Approach to neuropsychological assessment, advanced by Edith Kaplan, has a long and well-respected history in the field. However, its theoretical and empirical support has not previously been assembled in an easily accessible format. This volume fills that void by compiling the historical, empirical, and practical teachings of the Process Approach.
The reader will find a detailed history of the precursors to this model of thought, its development through its proponents such as Harold Goodglass, Nelson Butters, Laird Cermak, and Norman Geschwind, and its continuing legacy. The second section provides a guide to applying the Boston Process Approach to some of the field's most commonly used measures, such as the various Wechsler Intelligence Scales, the Trail Making Test, the California Verbal Learning Test, and the Boston Naming Test. Here, the reader will find a detailed history of the empirical evidence for test administration and interpretation using Boston Process Approach tenets. The final section of the book provides various perspectives on the implementation of the Boston Process Approach in various clinical and research settings and with specialized populations.
Table of Contents:
Foreword ; Sandra Weintraub ; Acknowledgments ; Contributors ; Edith Kaplan and the Boston Process Approach: A Tribute to an Original Thinker ; David J. Libon & Rod Swenson ; Section I: Background ; 1. Historical Foundations of the Boston Process Approach and the Roots of Modern Neuropsychology at the Boston VA Medical Center ; William Milberg & Nancy Hebben ; 2. Edith Kaplan: Educational Background and Her Impact on Neuropsychology ; Marlene Oscar-Berman & Deborah A. Fein ; 3. Intellectual Antecedents to the Boston Process Approach to Neuropsychological Assessment ; Russell M. Bauer & Dawn Bowers ; Section II: Instruments ; 4. Process-Focused Assessment of Arousal and Attention ; Elisabeth Moes, Haley Duncanson, & Carmen Armengol ; 5. Digit Span as a Neuropsychological Instrument of Error Processing ; Melissa Lamar, Emma Rhodes, Denene Wambach, Rod Swenson, & David J. Libon ; 6. Process Analysis of the Digit Symbol Task ; Lee Ashendorf & Erin Reynolds ; 7. A Process Approach to Understanding Concept Formation Using the Similarities Test ; Tania Giovannetti, Colette Seter, Melissa Lamar, Catherine C. Price, Rod Swenson, & David J. Libon ; 8. The Trail Making Test ; Lee Ashendorf ; 9. Error Analysis of the Delis-Kaplan Executive Fucntion System ; Katherine L. Possin & Joel H. Kramer ; 10, The Dysexecutive Syndrome Associated with Alzheimer/Vascular Spectrum Dementia Syndromes and Mild Cognitive Impairment: An Analysis of Process and Errors ; David J. Libon, Melissa Lamar, Catherine C. Price, Kelly Davis Garrett, Tania Giovannetti, Lisa Delano-Wood, Dana L., Penney, Joel Eppig, Christine Nieves, Mark W. Bondi, & Rod Swenson ; 11. Assessing Verbal List Learning: The California Verbal Learning Test and The Philadelphia (Repeatable) Verbal Learning Test ; Kelly Davis Garrett, Catherine C. Price, Melissa Lamar, Tania Giovannetti, Lisa Delano-Wood, Dana L. Penney, Rod Swenson, Mark W. Bondi, Dean Delis, & David J. Libon ; 12. The Process Approach to Assessment and Treatment of Aphasia ; Nancy Helm-Estabrooks & Marjorie Nicholas ; 13. Deficits in Semantic Memory Associated with Focal Neurodegenerative Diseases ; Michael Bonner & Murray Grossman ; 14. Edith Kaplan and Callosal Disconnection Apraxias ; Kenneth M. Heilman ; 15. Clock Drawing: Standing the Test of Time ; Laura J. Grande, James L. Rudolph, Randal Davis, Dana L. Penney, Rod Swenson, David J. Libon, & William Milberg ; 16. Visuoconstructional Test Performance and Process Approach Application: Block Design, Object Assembly and the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure ; Rod Swenson, Brianne Bettcher, William Barr, Megan Campbell Marsh, & David J. Libon ; Section III: Clinical and Research Applications ; 17. The Kaplan-Baycrest Neurocognitive Assessment ; Larry Leach ; 18. Process Analysis in the Assessment of Children ; Jane Holmes Bernstein ; 19. The Integration of Process Analysis into the Clinical Assessment of Children: A Personal Perspective ; Barbara Bruno-Golden ; 20. Process-Focused Assessment of Learning Disabilities and ADHD in Adults ; Robert L. Mapou ; 21. A Process Approach to Everyday Action Assessment ; Tania Giovannetti, Lauren Richmond, Sarah Seligman, Gregory A. Seidel, Mary Iampietro, Brianne M. Bettcher, Colette Seter, & David J. Libon ; 22. Implementing the Boston Process Approach in the Framingham Heart Study: It Is Possible ; Rhoda Au & Sherral Devine ; 23. Conclusion ; Lee Ashendorf ; Bibliography
