Helpful Information and Resources
For Clinicians
By Richard Wanlass, Ph.D.
This book provides information, guidelines, and materials to help future neuropsychology supervisees identify, understand, and avoid some of these problems and pitfalls. Also included are a neuropsychological questionnaire, short- and long-report formats, and sample statements that can be used to help with wording sections of the report that are particularly challenging to write.
Helpful Handouts
NOMAD Research
(Upcoming) Stanley-Olson, A., Faris, A., Jacobson, K., DeBellis, M., & Wanlass, R. (2018, November). Assessing Mood Following Injury or Illness: Introducing the NOMAD. Accepted paper presentation at the 126th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Division 22, San Francisco, CA.
This study investigates the utility and psychometric properties of the NOMAD Depression scale, a brief mood screening measure for rehabilitation and other medical patients that provides ratings of both current depression symptoms,and pre-injury/illness depression levels, as well as screening for symptom magnification and minimizationsymptoms, and symptom impression management.
Retrospective review of outpatient evaluations from a university hospital-based clinic and a private practice identified 575 adults meeting study criteria for clinical participants. Controls included 85 undergraduate students. Clinical and control participants completed the NOMAD Depression scale; clinical participants also completed some or all of the following measures: BDI-II, HADS, MMPI-2, and SCL-90-R.
The NOMAD Depression scale demonstrated moderate convergent validity with other brief mood measures: correlation coefficients (r = .76 to .87, p < .001). Adequate diagnostic sensitivity and specificity were found (AUC = .81). Suggested cut-off scores for severity ranges are presented for the NOMAD Depression scale Total score and separately for the Cognitive-Affective subscale.
Results support the use of the NOMAD Depression scale for quick assessment of mood and mood change since injury/illness onset in rehabilitation and other health-care contexts.
Keywords : Depression, neuropsychological assessment, rehabilitation, mood screening measure, adjustment