I. Relevance of Clinical Neuropsychology to Everyday Function: Transitions from a Diagnostic to an Ecological Science.- 1. Introduction to the Neuropsychology of Everyday Life.- 2. A Review of the Ecological Validity of Neuropsychological Tests.- 3. Integrating Neuropsychological and "Real-Life" Data: A Neuropsychological Model for Assessing Everyday Functioning.- 4. Use of Demographic Information in Neuropsychological Assessment.- 5. A Functional Assessment System for Real-World Rehabilitation Outcomes.- 6. Assessment of Functional Communication.- 7. Clinical Memory Assessment: Matching the Method to the Aim.- 8. Quality-of-Life Assessment in Neuropsychology.- 9. Assessment of Cognitive Competency.- II. Neuropsychological Analyses of Cognitive and Practical Competencies.- 10. Impact of Memory Disorder on Everyday Life: Awareness of Deficits and Return to Work.- 11. Buttering a Hot Cup of Coffee: An Approach to the Study of Errors of Action in Patients with Brain Damage.- 12. A Behavioral Approach to Activities of Daily Living.- 13. Neuropsychological Aspects of Motor Vehicle Operation.

The Neuropsychology of Everyday Life: Assessment and Basic Competencies

The Effects of Self-Management Training on the Daily Living of Adults with Mental Retardation.

It is well known that memory impairments are among the most common consequences of various kinds of brain injury and disease, including Korsakoff s syndrome, closed head injury, ruptured aneurysm, encephalitis, anoxia, Alzheimer’s disease, and temporal lobe lesions (for reviews, see Hirst, 1982; Moscovitch, 1982; Rozin, 1976; Schacter & Crovitz, 1977; Squire & Cohen, 1984; Weiskrantz, 1985). In view of the frequent occurrence of memory disorders in neuropsychological syndromes, it is clearly important to understand their impact on the day-to-day lives of afflicted patients; such understanding likely constitutes a necessary condition for formulating effective and ecologically valid management and treatment strategies.

Impact of memory disorder on everyday life: Awareness of deficits and return to work

A Coordinated Program to Transfer Self-Management Skills from School to Home.

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Occupational Therapist’s Role in Addressing Transition Support Through Life Skills

An independent living skills inventory and its application are described in detail. The inventory was designed to assist in the transition from a dependent living environment to a more independent environment. It covers four major areas: selecting an independent living situation, setting up an independent living situation, surviving in an independent living situation, and a training model to implement training in any of those areas. The inventory was designed with a skill emphasis, essentially what skills are necessary and what steps must be followed for an individual to successfully move from one setting to another and survive in the new setting. A system of prioritizing adult skills for training is also suggested. The inventory is an attempt to identify those adult functioning skills necessary for independent living. It follows Belmore and Brown's (1976) Job Skill Inventory as an initial model with an emphasis on apartment living rather than vocational skills.

Annette Skowron

Papers

Programming for Apartment Living: A Description and Rationale of an Independent Living Skills Inventory.