Psychopathology and Education of the Brain-Injured Child

Abstract

This book presents the results of intensive psychologic and educational research over twenty years. It is a major contribution to the understanding and management of the child whose intellectual, personality and behavioral deficiencies result from organic damage to the brain. It is concerned primarily with children who do not have severe cerebral palsy or other motor involvement—a group which has been more neglected, probably, than any other type of mentally defective or neurologically afflicted child. The first section of the book deals with the psychopathology of the child with an injured brain. After chapters on a historical review of the problems and anatomic considerations come the three most significant chapters of this section, describing the perceptual, conceptual and behavioral disorders of children with organic brain disease. There is a description of a number of ingenious psychologic tests for evaluating the kind and degree of disturbance of perception and concept formation.