Positive Neuropsychology: Evidence-Based Perspectives on Promoting Cognitive Health - Softcover

 
9781489997708: Positive Neuropsychology: Evidence-Based Perspectives on Promoting Cognitive Health
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ISBN 10: 1489997709 ISBN 13: 9781489997708
Verlag: Springer, 2015

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Psychology and many of its subfields have seen a significant shift over the past 10-12 years toward a focus on hope, positive attributes, and character strengths through the positive psychology movement. This book provides a blueprint for a burgeoning subfield in neuropsychology—positive neuropsychology. It proposes an alternative, evidence-based perspective on neuropsychology that incorporates positive psychology principles and a focus on promotion of cognitive health. It synthesizes existing research and provides novel perspectives on promotion of cognitive health in clinical, nonclinical, and academic settings. This work is a resource and reference for neuropsychologists, allied professionals, and students who see the critical role neuropsychologists can play in maintaining, promoting, and being mindful of cognitive health.

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Neuropsychologists, health psychologists, geriatricians, rehabilitation specialists, clinical psychologists

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Positive psychology--the study and promotion of character strengths, positive emotion, and optimism--has gained considerable momentum and support in recent years. Yet despite its application to various specialty areas within the broader field of psychology, neuropsychology has been slow to adopt and adapt its ideas.

The contributors to Positive Neuropsychology assert that neuropsychology as a discipline should concern itself with promoting cognitive health as well as addressing pathology. In these pages, positive neuropsychology is conceived of as broadening and enhancing the field, focusing on key areas such as studying and developing cognitive strengths, considering the importance of lifestyle factors on cognition, preventing cognitive dysfunction, compensating for deficits, and promoting cognitive health through education and technology. Chapters reveal not only the benefits of understanding cognitive health and optimal outcomes across the lifespan, but also emerging avenues for practitioners to expand their work into non-traditional settings. Among the topics featured:

  • Modifiable lifestyle factors that impact cognition through midlife.
  • Effects of coping strategies on outcomes in neurological disorders.
  • Promoting cognitive health through effective sports concussion management.
  • Use of innovative assessment and compensatory strategies to promote the executive functions.
  • Promoting psychosocial and cognitive wellness
in the workplace.
  • Lifestyle factors and successful cognitive aging in older adults.
  • Gerontechnology applications focused on promoting cognitive and general health.

    • Bringing new dimensions to the neuroscience, wellness, and positive psychology literatures, Positive Neuropsychology will interest a wide range of academics and clinicians, including neuropsychologists, geriatricians, health psychologists, cognitive neuroscientists, and other mental health and public health professionals.

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    Verlag
    Springer
    Erscheinungsdatum
    2015
    Sprache
    Englisch
    ISBN 10 
    1489997709
    ISBN 13 
    9781489997708
    Einband
    Taschenbuch
    Anzahl der Seiten
    192
    Herausgeber
    Randolph John J.
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