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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Boston process approach is an approach to neuropsychological assessment, which was developed at the Boston Veterans Medical Center by the American psychologist, Dr. Edith Kaplan, along with her colleagues, Drs. Harold Goodglass, Nelson Butters, Laird Cermak, and Norman Geschwind. It focuses on qualitative measurements of behavior and arises from the premise that “equal performance on any given mental task can be accomplished by different processes or strategies”. That is, because different sorts of errors by different patients may attain the same total score on a test, it is important to look at underlying processes in order to understand the particular difficulties of the individual. The goal of the approach is to create an understanding of the cognitive strengths and weaknesses of a patient. It is a flexible-battery approach to neuropsychological testing, meaning the set of standardized tests given to the patient is chosen according to the patient's specific deficits.\tIn 1976, Dr. Kaplan began training neuropsychology interns to allow them to apply what she referred to at the time as the Boston approach to neuropsychological assessment of their patients. The first fairly formalized and comprehensive description of Dr. Kaplan’s methods was published in the original 1986 version of her book chapter with Drs. Nancy Hebben and William Milberg, and it was here that the term “Boston process approach” was first used. There are no overall descriptions of the approach and no instances of that term used before that chapter. The Boston process approach is currently used as a method of neuropsychological assessment, with experience in its use being considered by some to be essential or very important for applicants to internships in clinical neuropsychology."@en }

• The_Boston_process_approach abstract "The Boston process approach is an approach to neuropsychological assessment, which was developed at the Boston Veterans Medical Center by the American psychologist, Dr. Edith Kaplan, along with her colleagues, Drs. Harold Goodglass, Nelson Butters, Laird Cermak, and Norman Geschwind. It focuses on qualitative measurements of behavior and arises from the premise that “equal performance on any given mental task can be accomplished by different processes or strategies”. That is, because different sorts of errors by different patients may attain the same total score on a test, it is important to look at underlying processes in order to understand the particular difficulties of the individual. The goal of the approach is to create an understanding of the cognitive strengths and weaknesses of a patient. It is a flexible-battery approach to neuropsychological testing, meaning the set of standardized tests given to the patient is chosen according to the patient's specific deficits.\tIn 1976, Dr. Kaplan began training neuropsychology interns to allow them to apply what she referred to at the time as the Boston approach to neuropsychological assessment of their patients. The first fairly formalized and comprehensive description of Dr. Kaplan’s methods was published in the original 1986 version of her book chapter with Drs. Nancy Hebben and William Milberg, and it was here that the term “Boston process approach” was first used. There are no overall descriptions of the approach and no instances of that term used before that chapter. The Boston process approach is currently used as a method of neuropsychological assessment, with experience in its use being considered by some to be essential or very important for applicants to internships in clinical neuropsychology.".