Clinical Disorders of Social Cognition

Clinical Disorders of Social Cognition provides contemporary neuroscientific theories of social cognition in a wide range of conditions across the lifespan. Taking a trans-diagnostic approach to understanding these disorders, it discusses how they present in different conditions, ranging from brain injury to neurodevelopmental disorders, psychiatric conditions and dementia. Social cognitive disorders directly impact upon individuals' work, leisure and social functioning. This book also collates and critiques the best and most useful assessment tools across the different disorders and coalesces research into intervention strategies across disorders to provide practical information about how such disorders can be assessed and treated so individuals can have meaningful, effective and satisfying social interactions. This book is essential reading for clinicians who work with people with clinical disorders and who are looking for new knowledge to understand, assess and treat their clients with social cognitive impairment. It will also appeal to students and professionals in clinical neuropsychology, speech and language pathology and researchers who are interested in learning more about the social brain and understanding how evidence from clinical conditions can inform this.

Skye McDonald is a world leader in understanding social cognitive disorders after brain injury and has published 200 peer-reviewed journal articles on this topic. Her interests span theory development, the development of ecologically valid assessments and the development of remediation and intervention programs.

Chapter 1 Introduction to social cognition Skye McDonald and Fiona Kumfor Chapter 2 Research methodologies, brain correlates, cross-cultural perspectives Fiona Kumfor and Skye McDonald Chapter 3 Impact of early brain insult on the development of social competence Vicki Anderson, Mardee Greenham, Nicholas P. Ryan and Miriam Beauchamp Chapter 4 Social cognition in Autism Spectrum Disorder and neurogenetic syndromes Alice Maier, Nicholas P Ryan, Anita Chisholm and Jonathan M Payne Chapter 5 Disorders of social cognition in adults with acquired brain injury Travis Wearne, Michelle Kelly and Skye McDonald Chapter 6 Social cognition in psychiatric disorders Amy E. Pinkham Chapter 7 Social cognition in dementia syndromes Stephanie Wong and Fiona Kumfor Chapter 8 Social cognition in neurodegenerative diseases: Huntington's Disease, Parkinson's Disease and Multiple Sclerosis Katherine Osborne-Crowley, Cynthia Honan and Helen M Genova Chapter 9 Assessing Social Cognition in adults Michelle Kelly, Skye McDonald and Amy Pinkham Chapter 10 Assessing social cognition in children Louise Crowe, Simone Darling and Jennifer Chow Chapter 11 Remediating social cognition Jacoba M. Spikman, Herma J. Westerhof-Evans and Anneli Cassel Acknowledgements