The Boston Process Approach to Neuropsychological Assessment: A Practitioner's Guide

Contents
Foreword ixSandra Weintraub
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Edith Kaplan and the Boston Process Approach: A Tribute to an Original Thinker • David J. Libon, Rod Swenson, and Lee Ashendorf
Section One: Background
	1 . Historical Foundations of the Boston Process Approach and the Roots of Modern Neuropsychology at the Boston VA Medical Center • William Milberg and Nancy Hebben
	2 . Edith Kaplan: Educational Background and Her Impacton Neuropsychology • Marlene Oscar-Berman and Deborah A. Fein
	3 . Intellectual Antecedents to the Boston Process Approach to Neuropsychological Assessment • Russell M. Bauer and Dawn Bowers
Section Two: Instruments
	4 . Process-Focused Assessment of Arousal and Attention • Elisabeth Moes, Haley Duncanson, and Carmen G. Armengol
	5 . Digit Span as a Neuropsychological Instrument of Error Processing • Melissa Lamar, Emma Rhodes, Denene M. Wambach, Rod Swenson, and David J. Libon
	6 . Process Analysis of the Digit Symbol Task • Lee Ashendorf and 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, and David J. Libon
	8. The Trail Making Test • Lee Ashendorf
	9. Error Analysis of the Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System • Katherine L. Possin and 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, and 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 C. Delis, and David J. Libon
	12. The Process Approach to Assessment and Treatment of Aphasia • Nancy Helm-Estabrooks and Marjorie Nicholas
	13. Deficits in Semantic Memory Associated With Focal Neurodegenerative Diseases • Michael Bonner and 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, Randall Davis, Dana L. Penney, Catherine C. Price, Rod Swenson, David J. Libon, and William Milberg
	16. Visuoconstructional Test Performance and Process Approach Application: Block Design, Object Assembly, and the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure • Rod Swenson, Brianne M. Bett cher, William Barr, Megan Campbell Marsh, and David J. Libon
Section Three: 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 F. Bruno-Golden
	20. Process-Focused Assessment of Learning Disabilities and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults • Robert L. Mapou
	21. A Process Approach to Everyday Action Assessment •  Tania Giovannetti, Lauren L. Richmond, Sarah C. Seligman, Gregory A. Seidel, Mary Iampietro, Brianne M. Bettcher, Colette Seter, and David J. Libon
	22. Implementing the Boston Process Approach in the Framingham Heart Study: It Is Possible • Rhoda Au and Sherral Devine
23. Conclusion • Lee Ashendorf, Rod Swenson, and David J. Libon
A Process Approach Bibliography: Edith Kaplan’s Publications
Index