Handbook of executive functioning [electronic resource] / Sam Goldstein, Jack A. Naglieri, editors.
2014
QP360
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Title
Handbook of executive functioning [electronic resource] / Sam Goldstein, Jack A. Naglieri, editors.
ISBN
9781461481065 electronic book
1461481066 electronic book
9781461481058
1461481066 electronic book
9781461481058
Published
New York, NY : Springer, 2014.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xix, 567 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-1-4614-8106-5 doi
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QP360
Dewey Decimal Classification
612.8
Summary
Planning. Attention. Memory. Self-regulation. These and other core cognitive and behavioral operations of daily life comprise what we know as executive functioning (EF). But despite all we know, the concept has engendered multiple, often conflicting definitions, and its components are sometimes loosely defined and poorly understood. The Handbook of Executive Functioning cuts through the confusion, analyzing both the whole and its parts in comprehensive, practical detail for scholar and clinician alike. Background chapters examine influential models of EF, tour the brain geography of the executive system, and pose salient developmental questions. A section on practical implications relates early deficits in executive functioning to ADD and other disorders in children, and considers autism and later-life dementias from an EF standpoint. Further chapters weigh the merits of widely used instruments for assessing executive functioning and review interventions for its enhancement, with special emphasis on children and adolescents. Featured in the Handbook: The development of hot and cool executive function in childhood and adolescence. A review of the use of executive function tasks in externalizing and internalizing disorders. Executive functioning as a mediator of age-related cognitive decline in adults. Treatment integrity in interventions that target executive function. Supporting and strengthening working memory in the classroom to enhance executive functioning. The Handbook of Executive Functioning is an essential resource for researchers, scientist-practitioners, and graduate students in clinical child, school, and educational psychology; child and adolescent psychiatry; neurobiology; developmental psychology; rehabilitation medicine/therapy; and social work.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
SECTION I: CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING
SECTION II: PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS
SECTION III: ASSESSMENT OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING
SECTION IV: INTERVENTIONS RELATED TO EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING.
SECTION II: PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS
SECTION III: ASSESSMENT OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING
SECTION IV: INTERVENTIONS RELATED TO EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING.