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Carrie H. Kennedy, Jeffrey Moore
ISBN: 9780826104489
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Springer Publishing Co Inc
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Neuropsychology is quickly becoming the needed specialty area in the military health care system. Military health care and Veterans Administration facilities are hiring psychologists and neuropsychologists at rapid rates in order to provide timely services to active duty and veteran populations. This book serves as a comprehensive resource that combines cutting-edge literature…
This text covers the unique features of neuropsychological evaluations in the military. The author presents a thorough examination of the assessment needs of various military populations, with a special emphasis on traumatic brain injury, and the neurocognitive aspects of stress-related problems - such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and decision-making under stress. The chapters of the book are designed to integrate theory and application, and include case study examples as well as a review of the latest research. This book discusses the development of neuropsychology and its advances in the military. It presents methods of dealing with military issues, such as head injuries, HIV, PTSD, learning disorders, and more. It explains the importance of baseline testing, stress research, and multiple brain injury rehabilitation techniques.
| ISBN | 0826104487 | | Pages | 450 | | ISBN13 | 9780826104489
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 703 | | Publisher | Springer Publishing Co Inc | | Published in | New York | | Imprint | Springer Publishing Co Inc | | Height (mm) | 229 | | Format | Hardback | | Width (mm) | 152 | | Publication date | 15 Apr 2010 | | Spine width (mm) | 28 | | DEWEY | 616.80024355 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| 1 | | A history and introduction to military neuropsychology by Carrie H. Kennedy and Corwin Boake and Jeffrey L. Moore | | 1 | | 2 | | Ethical issues in military neuropsychology by Shane S. Bush and George M. Cuesta | | 29 | | 3 | | Fitness for duty by Mark P. Kelly and Kevin P. Mulligan and Mark C. Monahan | | 57 | | 4 | | Noncredible neuropsychological presentation in service members and veterans by Manfred F. Greiffenstein | | 81 | | 5 | | Blast injury and traumatic brain injury by Louis M. French and Jack Spector and William Stiers and Robert L. Kane | | 101 | | 6 | | Acute battlefield assessment of concussion/mild TBI and return-to-duty evaluations by Jeffrey T. Barth and William C. Isler and Katherine M. Helmick and Ilaina M. Wingler and Michael S. Jaffee | | 127 | | 7 | | Head injury rehabilitation of military members by Treven C. Pickett and Mark C. Bender and Eugene Gourley | | 175 | | 8 | | Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and learning disorders by David W. Hess and Carrie H. Kennedy and Rebecca A. Hardin and Thomas Kupke | | 199 | | 9 | | HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders in the military by Steven Paul Woods and Erica Weber and J. Allen McCutchan and Robert K. Heaton | | 227 | | 10 | | The neuropsychological functioning of prisoners of war following repatriation by Jeffrey L. Moore | | 267 | | 11 | | Cognitive sequelae of sustained operations by Nancy J. Wesensten and Thomas J. Balkin | | 297 | | 12 | | Neuropsychological correlates of PTSD : a military perspective by Jennifer J. Vasterling and Helen Z. MacDonald and Erin W. Ulloa and Nicole Rodier | | 321 | | 13 | | Cognition and decision making in extreme environments by Jeffrey A. McNeil and C. A. Morgan III | | 361 | | 14 | | The future of military neuropsychology by Robert A. Seegmiller and Robert L. Kane | | 383 | | | | Index | | 405 |
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