Editors:
- First book dedicated to integration of developmental neuropsychology and public health
- First book to address rehabilitative issues for this study population
- Contains cutting edge research on co-constructivist paradigm of cognitive development
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Specialty Topics in Pediatric Neuropsychology (STPN)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The studies in Neuropsychology of Children in Africa clearly illustrate how the brain develops and adjusts in the face of adversity. Contributors span assessment approaches and public health risk factors, and represent established topics and emerging lines of research, including biocultural constructs and genomic technologies. Together, these chapters argue for methodology that is culturally sensitive, scientifically rigorous, consistent, and sustainable. And although the focus is pediatric, the book takes a lifespan approach to prevention and intervention, modeling a universal framework for understanding neurocognitive development. Included in the coverage:
- Assessment of very young children in Africa in the context of HIV.
- Psychosocial aspects of malnutrition among African children.
- Assessment of neuropsychological outcomes in pediatric severe malaria.
- Neurodisability screening using the Ten Questions questionnaire.
- The neuropsychology of sickle cell disease in West African children.
- Computerized Cognitive Rehabilitation Thera
As a guide to current findings or a springboard for new studies, Neuropsychology of Children in Africa is a necessary reference for researchers, policymakers, and diverse professionals in global aid organizations, and across the discipline.
Reviews
“A welcomed introduction to the landscape of pediatric neuropsychology in Africa and significantly expands the range of cultures and conditions included in most academic texts on cross-cultural neuropsychology. … The text will likely be most attractive to brain-related practitioners and educators who work in the referenced regions as well as scientists who are confronting similar challenges in other resource-limited settings. … of great interest to trainees and aid in providing a global perspective to the practice of neuropsychology.” (Desiree Byrd, Archives and Clinical Neuropsychology, Vol. 30 (5), August, 2015)
Editors and Affiliations
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, Psychiatry and Neurology/Ophthalmology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
Michael J. Boivin
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, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Bruno Giordani
About the editors
Michael J. Boivin is Associate Professor in the International Neurologic and Psychiatric Epidemiology Program at Michigan State University and an adjunct research investigator with the Neuropsychology Section at the University of Michigan. A former Fulbright research scholar to the DR Congo (1990-91) and Uganda (2003-04), he presently helps lead NIH-sponsored studies in Uganda pertaining to the neurocognitive effects of HIV subtype in children, the neurodevelopmental benefits of caregiver training to enrich the home environment of very young children with HIV, and factors affecting neurocognitive disability in rural Ugandan children affected by HIV. Over the past 20 years Dr. Boivin has pioneered the application of neuropsychological assessment to gauging the neurocognitive impact of public health risk factors and interventions in African children.
Bruno Giordani is Professor in Psychiatry and Psychology and Director of the Neuropsychology Section and Alzheimer’s Disease Research Core at the University of Michigan. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and Fellow in Division 40, Clinical Neuropsychology, of the American Psychological Association. Most recently, Drs. Giordani and Boivin worked together in Uganda working with research personnel at Makerere University in order to develop the infrastructure and pilot data for the computerized cognitive rehabilitation of children surviving severe malaria and children with HIV.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neuropsychology of Children in Africa
Book Subtitle: Perspectives on Risk and Resilience
Editors: Michael J. Boivin, Bruno Giordani
Series Title: Specialty Topics in Pediatric Neuropsychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6834-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-6833-2Published: 10 May 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9345-8Published: 15 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-6834-9Published: 13 May 2013
Series ISSN: 2625-2856
Series E-ISSN: 2625-2864
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 347
Topics: Neuropsychology, Public Health, Cross Cultural Psychology, Pediatrics