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Choosing a neuropsychologist for an assessment

 
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cynthia



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 10:07 pm    Post subject: Choosing a neuropsychologist for an assessment Reply with quote
How do I choose the best neuropsychologist to administer an assessment? Should I ask specific questions, and what would they be? How important is the interpretation of the results? Can this vary widely from one practitioner to the next?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 7:59 am    Post subject: Re: Choosing a neuropsychologist for an assessment Reply with quote
Hello cynthia,

[quote="cynthia"]How do I choose the best neuropsychologist to administer an assessment?
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First of all you could ask your physician/ neurologist if he knows someone or search by telephonebook or the internet.

[quote="cynthia"]Should I ask specific questions, and what would they be?


I would be interested in things like place of education, postgraduate training, experience with the kind of population you're seeking assessment for (children, adults, old people) and membership of any particular societies (APA, whatever).

cynthia wrote:
How important is the interpretation of the results?


It's the most important step. You don't have to study psychology and specialize in np in order to be able to administer tests to people or calculate standardscores. It's the interpretation of the results, gathering information from all different sources (not just the tests) and thereby having a theorie of the brain-behavior relationship in mind, that makes it difficult.

cynthia wrote:
Can this vary widely from one practitioner to the next?


Yes it can.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 8:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm sorry for this mess...
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