商品簡介
Barkley (psychiatry and pediatrics, Medical U. of South Carolina) offers clinical psychologists, neuropsychologists, and other clinicians working with children, adolescents, and adults, a volume outlining a model of executive functioning. He critiques the limitations of current views, including the lack of consensus and operational definitions, problems with assessment, the lack of a coherent theory, and the question of why humans developed executive functioning, then draws on the concept of the extended phenotype to illustrate a conceptualization of executive functioning as an evolutionary adaptation. He outlines an extended phenotype model and its hierarchical levels (instrumental-self-directed, methodological-self-reliant, tactical-reciprocal, and strategic-cooperative) and how they affect behavior, daily functioning, social relations, and other areas. He examines each level and the related actions, including problem solving, self-restraint, self-motivation, reciprocity, and self-regulation, and how this theory aids in a better understanding of why deficits occur, how they can be measured, and implications for intervention. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Russell A. Barkley, PhD, ABPP, ABCN, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Barkley has published numerous books and five assessment scales, plus more than 260 scientific articles and book chapters on ADHD, executive functioning, and childhood defiance. He is also the editor of the newsletter The ADHD Report. A frequent conference presenter and speaker who is widely cited in the national media, he is past president of the Section on Clinical Child Psychology (the former Division 12) of the American Psychological Association, and of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. His website is
www.russellbarkley.org.
