Describes effects that brain-injured patient may have on family system and kinds of reactions typically seen in family members. Describes strategies of family therapy in brain injury, including education, supportive counseling, and more intensive family therapy modalities. Considers goals and outcomes of family therapy with this group and offers…

This document represents transcripts of a series of workshops presented for the staff of a long-term care facility for aged patients. A specialist in geriatric psychiatry leads the discussions, which cover topics such as the definition of brain syndrome; testing procedures; emotional and behavioral problems; and the optimal environment for the…

Presented is a sequential, non-graded curriculum for secondary students who have a specific neurological dysfunction which has been designated as "brain-injured syndrome." Following a discussion of the curriculum's philosophy are program outlines for the following areas (sample subsections are in parentheses): career skills development…

The manual explains how to plan, implement, and evaluate an alternative learning resource center approach to mainstreaming for elementary school students classified as educable mentally retarded, perceptually impaired, or neurologically impaired. (It is noted that a 3-year learning center demonstration project, funded under Title III, was…

This handbook is a detailed guide to more than 300 measures of child behavior and development not available from test publishers. The authors surveyed the literature over a ten-year period to find more than a thousand measures; those included here are not described in other sourcebooks and guides. Thus this book is the only guide to many of the…

This handbook makes available in one source (two volumes) nearly 900 unpublished tests and measures of child development--measures of intellectual functioning, personality, self-concept, motor skills, physical attributes, and many other characteristics. The measures are appropriate for the years from birth through age 18. The measures are…