HRB: ADMINISTRATION & INTERPRETATION SEMINAR
DATE: TBA
Registration: $475
Early Registration: $450 (until TBA
Late Registration: $500 (after TBA
Early Registration: $450 (until TBA
Late Registration: $500 (after TBA
LOCATION
The Neuropsychology CenterPlano, Texas
CE CREDIT
18.0 hours of Continuing Education credit for Psychologists.Full attendance at the seminar is required to receive CE credit. Partial credits cannot be awarded.
This seminar will provide participants with information regarding the administration, validation, and interpretation of the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery.
Cases for presentations are selected from The Neuropsychology Center files to illustrate the HRB interpretation methodology. Neurological conditions to be illustrated through case examples will include head injury, stroke, and Alzheimer’s Disease.
This seminar is a prerequisite for our Advanced seminars.
PREREQUISITES
Registration is open to psychologists, psychology graduate students, and psychology interns. No previous knowledge or experience with the HRB is necessary. However, attendees should be familiar with psychological testing standards and procedures. This is not an introduction to neuropsychology, and attendance at this seminar is not sufficient to practice neuropsychology without additional education, training, and experience.SUGGESTED TEXT
Reitan, R.M. & Wolfson, D., (1993). The Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery: Theory and Clinical Interpretation, Tucson: Neuropsychology Press.LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After completing this seminar, participants will be able to describe the historical development and scientific validation of the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery. They will be able to explain its usefulness in the understanding of their patients’ brain-related function; they will be able to apply this knowledge to improve their understanding of the nature and degree of their patients’ difficulties in daily and occupational function.They will be able to demonstrate the correct administration and scoring procedures for each of the subtests within the battery. They will be able to identify which HRB test procedures are most sensitive to brain impairment, which are particularly useful in differentiating chronic from progressive neurological disorders, and which are most useful in predicting rehabilitation success.
They will be able to demonstrate the correct data plotting procedure in order to organize and summarize the test results from the full HRB test battery. They will be able to describe how to organize their test data according to the cerebral hemisphere involved. They will be able to explain the principles of brain organization that lead to interpretive decisions about the significance of motor and sensory-perceptual data (hemisphere-specific) as compared to data from measures of higher cognitive (generalized, non-lateralized) function. They will be able to explain the importance of non-impaired test results in the construction of an overall pattern of neuropsychological function for their patients.
Seminar participants will be able to recognize important patterns of test results that indicate, for example, significant brain-related disorders, mild brain-related disorders, lateralized brain-related disorders (e.g., stroke, tumor), or no disorder (e.g., normal function or normal variation). After reviewing case examples and plotting test data, the attendees will be able to describe the patterns of test results expected in traumatic brain injury, stroke, and Alzheimer’s disease.
FACULTY
Jim Hom, Ph.D.Janice Nici, Ph.D.
The faculty members are experienced neuropsychologists with extensive background in the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Batteries. Both have been faculty members of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and are founders of The Neuropsychology Center. The faculty members have provided graduate level and post-doctoral training in Clinical Neuropsychology.
SCHEDULE
Day 1:8:45 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:20 Introductions, review of objectives, schedule, seminar format and CE requirements
9:20 - 12:00 Administration/scoring of Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)
1:30 - 4:30 Administration/scoring of Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery
Day 2:
9:00 – 12:00 History and research validation of the HRB
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)
1:30 - 4:30 Patterns of HRB results in neurological conditions and case presentation
Day 3:
9:00 - 12:00 Patterns of HRB results in neurological conditions and case presentation
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)
1:30 - 4:00 Patterns of HRB results in neurological conditions and case presentation
4:00 - 4:30 Final comments, questions; Course evaluation
TRAVEL/HOTEL
The seminar sessions will be held at the The Neuropsychology Center, 500 North Central Expressway, Plano, TX 75074. Click here for a list of hotels within close proximity of The Neuropsychology Center.List of hotels.
The hotels are accessible from either Dallas/Ft. Worth International Airport (served by all major airlines) or Love Field (Southwest Airlines).
CANCELLATION POLICY
Refund of registration fees (minus a 10% cancellation charge) will be provided as long as your written cancellation is postmarked 3 weeks prior to the starting date of the seminar. Cancellations after that time will result in a 50% return of your fee, or the option of applying the fee to a future seminar (minus the 10% cancellation charge). If this seminar has to be canceled for any reason, all registration fees will be immediately refunded. In that case, our liability is limited to registration fees only; there will be no reimbursement for travel or hotel cancellation fees or penalties.COVID POLICY
Special circumstances related to Covid: We will observe safety recommendations issued by the Dallas County Health Department. Depending on the situation at the time of this seminar, masks may be required. If you have questions about safety requirements or precautions, please feel free to contact us at (469) 429-8890 or email us at seminar@neuropsych.com.