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Flexible Battery

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Ability focused; Core battery; Fixed-flexible or semi-flexible

Definition

The flexible battery approach to neuropsychological evaluation allows the clinician the freedom to select tests that are preferred to answer referral questions for a given examinee in a given evaluation context. Unlike the “defined” structure of a fixed battery approach, there is often no empirically defined overriding structure that organizes or unifies the flexible battery. Some flexible batteries use a core battery of tests around which other flexible tests are added (i.e., Meyers Neuropsychological Battery).

Historical Background

The concept of a “flexible” assessment approach to neuropsychological testing is not new. Early writers and teachers presented and described a flexible approach as early as 1951 (Shapiro 1951). Early pioneers in the field of neuropsychology (e.g., Benton 1977; Lezak 1976) also advocated a flexible approach to assessment. In a survey, Sweet et al. (2015) found that only 3%...

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  1. Neuropsychology, Comprehensive Medpsych Systems, 1090 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL, 34236, USA

    John E. Meyers

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    Jeffrey Kreutzer

  2. Kessler Foundation , West Orange, New Jersey, USA

    John DeLuca

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Meyers, J.E. (2017). Flexible Battery. In: Kreutzer, J., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56782-2_182-3

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