TVTC catalogue v3 - Blessing-Cathay

1 Thames Valley Test Company 2004. catalogue new edition complete catalogue of psychological tests Important News Should you require We are pleased to announce scientific information that Harcourt Assessment Inc., a provider of or journal references assessment instruments and concerning any of our tests;. testing programs acquired Swets Test International (STI), or if you wish to place the group of pan-European an order, make an order companies to which Thames Valley Test Company belongs. enquiry, or require further The STI companies will be catalogues, please contact integrated into the existing operations of Harcourt us on: Assessment International, the international unit of Harcourt ( +44 (0)1359 232941. Assessment Inc. +44 (0)1359 230581. About Harcourt Assessment Harcourt Assessment International We are always interested in our user's has exiting offices in the United views and experiences.)

2 Please send your Kingdom, Australia and Canada, as comments and suggestions to: well as France, where it operates through its subsidiary, ECPA. The Thames Valley Test Company company is the international unit of Unit 22, the Granary Harcourt Assessment, Inc, Station Hill and until recently was known as The Thurston Psychological Corporation. Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP31 3QU. With headquarters in San Antonio, England Texas, Harcourt Assessment, Inc., is a leading provider of high-quality assessment instruments and testing programs. The company is affiliated with the Harcourt book publishing companies, and together they form the global education brand of Reed Elsevier Group plc, a world- leading publisher and information provider operating in the science and medical, legal, education and Design business-to-business industry sectors. Boag Associates, London For further information, please visit Photography and David Hatful, diem photography and Mike Taylor, Mike Taylor Images Contents Introduction Tests for children 2 About TVTC 28 Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome for Children 2 New tests (BADS-C).

3 2 Forthcoming tests 29 The Test of Everyday Attention for Children (TEA-Ch). 30 The Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test for Children (RBMT-C). 30 Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function [BRIEF]. Tests for adults 31 Graded Nonword Reading Test 3 Cambridge Test of Prospective Memory (CAMPROMPT) 31 Test for Creative Thinking-Drawing Production [TCP-DP]. 3 Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination (ACE). 4 The Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test (RBMTII). 5 Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome (BADS) Books and Workshops 6 The Test of Everyday Attention (TEA) 32 Workshops 7 Doors and People 32 Selecting, administering and interpreting cognitive tests: guidelines for 8 Severe Impairment Battery (SIB) clinicians and therapists 9 Naturalistic Action Test (NAT) 33 Coping with memory problems 10 Verb and Sentence Test (VAST) 33 Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: Theory and Practice 11 The Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT) 34 Practice of Child-Clinical Neuropsychology 12 The Hayling and Brixton Tests 34 Ethical Issues in Clinical Neuropsychology 13 Facial Expressions of Emotion: Stimuli and Tests (FEEST) 34 Neuropsychological Differential Diagnosis 13 Behavioural Inattention Test [BIT] 35 Forensic Neuropsychology.

4 Fundamentals and Practice 14 The Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test Extended Version (RBMT-E) 35 Fundamentals of Functional Brain Imaging: A Guide to the Methods 15 Speed and Capacity of Language Processing Test [SCOLP] and their Applications to Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience 16 The Balloons Test 36 References 17 Cortical Vision Screening Test [CORVIST]. 18 Visual Object and Space Perception Battery [VOSP]. 36 Registration 18 The Middlesex Elderly Assessment of Mental State [MEAMS]. 19 The Wessex Head Injury Matrix (WHIM) 37 Ordering 19 Rivermead Assessment of Somatosensory Performance [RASP]. 20 Pyramids and Palm Trees 38 Reference index 20 The Autobiographical Memory Interview (AMI). 40 Author index 21 Location Learning Test (LLT). 21 Putney Auditory Comprehension Screening Test (PACST) 41 International distributors 22 Visual Patterns Test (VPT).

5 22 Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (DEBQ). 23 Short Category Test, booklet format [SCT]. 23 Katz Adjustment Scales Relative report form [KAS-R]. 24 Wisconsin Card Sorting Test: 64 Card Version 24 Wisconsin Card Sorting Test [WCST]. 25 Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test: A handbook [RAVLT]. 25 Rey Complex Figure Test and Recognition Trial [RCFT]. 26 Symbol Digit Modalities Test [SDMT]. 26 Hooper Visual OrganizationTest [VOT]. 27 WPS Electronic Tapping Test [WPS ETT]. Thames Valley Test Company catalogue 2004 1. Introduction Register on page 36, place an order on page 37 or visit us at About TVTC New tests Forthcoming tests Thames Valley Test Company (TVTC) Behavioural Assessment of Addenbrooke's Cognitive was founded in 1985 and became a the Dysexecutive Syndrome in Examination (ACE). member of Swets Test International Children (BADS-C). (STI) group of companies in 1997.

6 The ACE is a simple, quick and reliable test for the early detection In December 2003 the companies of organic brain disease in forming STI were acquired by The patients presenting with memory Harcourt Assessment. complaints. TVTC continues to specialise in providing assessments for Cambridge Test of Prospective An ecologically valid and reliable psychologists, occupational therapists Memory (CAMPROMPT). battery of tests of executive and speech and language therapist functioning for children and working with people with brain adolescents. The BADS-C offers injury. standardized child friendly'. We work with the creative and administration and scoring with scientific talents of many leading comprehensive norms. neuropsychologists whose work Price is known in this specialist arena throughout the world. Their Severe Impairment Battery (SIB). contribution in terms of research Available Summer 2004, the and test development has enabled CAMPROMPT will offer a clinically TVTC to become a test publisher sensitive, ecologically valid test of of innovative instruments for prospective memory.

7 Measuring impairment and disability brought on by brain injury. TVTC has led the field in terms of publishing Please note: ecologically relevant tests that There are now no additional charges for can predict everyday problems for delivery of our tests in the UK. Please clients. Building on the international enquire regarding delievery overseas. reputation of the RBMT and the We have also made a change to the way we As well as our original publications BADS we are now pleased to be able are able to supply additional scoring sheets. in English, we continue to develop to offer German, French and Spanish Unless stated otherwise the prices listed are and encourage translations. Some of versions of our highly respected test for quantities of 50. There is no additional our most respected assessments are delivery charge for UK orders. of severe dementia. available for purchase in languages Price D = Distributed tests as widespread as German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Danish, Swedish, Finnish and Japanese.

8 Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: Our assessments are used and Theory and Practice respected globally and as such can be ordered through our distribution A new book for clinical partners in Europe, Australia, New psychologists and those working Zealand, Hong Kong and North in rehabilitation complete with America. significant contributions from many TVTC authors. Price 2 Thames Valley Test Company catalogue 2004. Register on page 36, place an order on page 37 or visit us at Forthcoming tests The most common memory complaints are concerned with failures of prospective The RBMT and the Extended RBMT (RBMT-E). both contain some prospective memory tasks Cambridge Test of memory, yet this aspect of memory function is but it was felt there was a need for a more Prospective Memory rarely assessed formally. clinically sensitive, ecologically valid test of prospective memory.

9 Following a pilot study (CAMPROMPT). What is prospective memory? (Groot et al 2002), the authors modified the Prospective memory is the ability to remember pilot version of the Cambridge Prospective to do things at a particular time or within Memory Test (CAMPROMPT) and now offer a Overview a given interval of time or when a certain test that comprises 3 time based tasks and 3 A test of prospective memory event happens. In other words prospective event based tasks. memory is remembering to do things rather Norms have been collected from 212 controls Authors: Barbara A. Wilson, Agnes Shiel, Jennifer than remembering things that have already and a group of people with brain injury. Foley, Hazel Emslie, Yvonne Groot, Kari Hawkins, happened. Everyday life examples include Considerable differences between age Peter Watson remembering to put a letter in a mailbox on groups and groups of different ability levels Publication date: Summer 2004.

10 Your way home, remembering to turn off the are reported and reflected in the scoring. cooker, or remembering to phone your mother Significant correlations between prospective Age range: Adult at a particular time or within a particular time and retrospective memory functioning were Norms: 212 controls interval. For people with brain injury, failures found in the studies. Validity was assessed by a in prospective memory, such as forgetting to prospective memory questionnaire with strong Qualification: take medication, can have devastating effects correlation between the CAMPROMPT scores Chartered Psychologist on everyday life and are likely to threaten and self reported everyday memory failures. Occupational Therapist independence. Speech & Language Therapist As well as identifying prospective memory Despite its clinical significance, prospective difficulties, the CAMPROMPT should provide Price of complete test: memory has been relatively under- valid data for planning programmes aimed at Inc.