Screening for Brain Impairment: A Manual for Mental Health Practice, Third Edition, Edition 3

Glen E. Getz, PhD, ABN · Michael D. Franzen, PhD

mar 2010 · Springer Publishing Company

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Written by top practitioners in the field of neuropsychological screening, Screening for Brain Impairment is the extensively updated new edition of the classic resource. Valuable to a broad range of medical and mental health practitioners, this new edition reflects enormous changes to the field over the past 13 years.

Each chapter contains updated information and new empirical data, including extensive information on neurological and psychiatric disorders, adult attention deficit disorder, and screening for and assessing the emotional correlates of brain impairment. Also included are new chapters on computerized assessment and developing relations with other professionals, including clinical neuropsychologists, neurologists, primary care physicians, neurosurgeons, and psychiatrists.

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Glen E. Getz is a clinical neuropsychologist at Allegheny General Hospital as well as an assistant professor at the Drexel University College of Medicine.

Michael D. Franzen is the Director of Neuropsychology at the Allegheny Neuropsychiatric Institute and Chief Neuropsychologist at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh.