11 & 12 Flashcards
Evaluation And Treatment Planning
During your first contact with your client you will spend an hour familiarizing yourself with their problem and educating them about neurofeedback. This is often called the ________________ .
initial interview
Rossiter has calculated that 30 sessions of neurofeedback is on average ___________ 5 years of Ritalin.
less than
If your client has a head trauma you should request any _____________ available.
neuroimaging reports
Excessive beta in the right hemisphere usually correlates with elevated scores on the ______________ .
Beck’s Anxiety Inventory
Excessive alpha in the left hemisphere usually correlates with elevated scores on the ________________.
Beck Depression Inventory
Excessive theta in the frontal region is usually correlated with elevated scores on the ________________.
A) TOVA
C) IVA
D) a and c
The priority in writing treatment plans should be _____________ .
A) fitting goals and objectives to the problem
B) selecting the intervention to fit the clients coping methods
C) altering treatment means to fit the phases of progress
D) all of the above
Reviewing client history and determining what the key issue to address first is referred to as _______________ .
problem selections
Helping clients arrange their lives in a specific and concrete fashion to achieve their goals is referred to as ________________.
objective construction
The culmination of the entire process of treatment plan writing is the ______________.
determination of diagnosis
When dealing with insurance companies a well-written ___________ is often crucial to obtaining treatment funding.
treatment plan
Research has indicated that psychometric evaluation is ___________ than clinical observation and professional interview.
more accurate
Many clinicians will use a TOVA for evaluation every ________ sessions.
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A common computerized performance test used in neurofeedback to assess attentional functioning and arousal level is the _____________.
A) TOVA
B) IVA
****D) a and b***
Frequently clients will habituate to relief from a pre-existing problem and __________.
forget the prior intensity of the problem
A commonly used test that can be given repeatedly to assess level of anxiety and depression is the _______________.
Beck inventories
Common dimensions of measurement in neurometrics are ____________.
A) power
B) coherence
C) asymmetry
D) frequency
E) all of the above
Neurometric databases contain information regarding the ___________ of brainwave characteristics for individuals of all ages and both genders.
A) gaussian distribution
B) normal distribution
C) power distribution
D) all of the above*
Deviation from what is normally expected of an individual of certain age or gender is usually represented in terms of ______________.
Z scores
Absolute power is a measurement of the total EEG power compare to _____________.
other individuals in the database
_____________ evaluates the difference in power between hemispheres.
assymetry
To determine how much each area of the brain is in communication with other areas one would look at ___________ on the brainmap.
coherence measures
When brainmaps show topologies of each frequency band it is referred to as _____________.
single hertz bins
A very important dimension of analysis in regard to head injury that has been heavily investigated by Thatcher is _______________.
coherence
A dimension that is frequently calculated very differently in different qEEG databases is _______________.
coherence
Power differences showing up between databases in alpha, beta, theta, and delta may be due to the fact that ______________.
frequency filters were defined differently
The most commonly used montage in qEEG for neurofeedback is __________.
linked ears
To obtain similar readings on your equipment to those on the brainmap, one should be sure that the __________ are the same.
A) montages
B) method of power measurements
C) filter settings
D) all of the above*
Pre and post maps should be taken around the same time of day since EEG amplitude varies quite a bit as a consequence of ____________.
circadian rhythms
Deviations higher than ________ standard deviations are considered significant in neurometrics.
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