Brandon Davis

MMPI differences for renal, psychiatric, and general medical patients.

Renal failure has both medical and psychological implications. Indeed, various psychiatric problems related to end-stage renal disease have been reported in the literature; however, the focus has been on anxiety and depression. While previous research has dealt with the comparisons of patients with renal failure, few studies have investigated the comparison of renal patients with psychiatric and general medical patients. The present study compared renal patients (N = 24) with a group of depressed psychiatric patients (N = 24) and a group of general medical patients (N = 24) on the MMPI. The results suggested that the renal group presented a psychological profile that more closely resembled that of the depressed psychiatric group than that of patients with other chronic medical conditions.

Mothers' self-reports of perinatal information as predictors of school achievement

Abstract This study examined the relationship between perinatal information and school achievement for children with learning problems. Multiple regression analyses showed that perinatal information alone and in combination with Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised subtests accounted for a significant amount of the variability in the three achievement dimensions of the Wide Range Achievement Test. Moreover, perinatal variables in concert with intellectual information were highly related to childrens overall school achievement. The results were interpreted as lending support to a multivariate link between perinatal events and school achievement as well as the utility of considering structured maternal reports of perinatal information in concert with measures routinely administered by psychologists in the schools in the prediction of school functioning.

NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL CLUSTERS WITHIN INTELLIGENCE LEVELS FOR LEARNING DISABLED CHILDREN

The present study assessed 1142 learning disabled children with the Halstead Reitan Neuropsychological Battery and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised. Subjects were divided into four groups based upon Full Scale IQ (i.e., 70–79; 80–89; 90–99 and 100–110). Subsequent clustering of the test data within each group suggested that while the students in the 70–79 IQ range were represented by a single Impaired Cluster, each of the other IQ groups had both an Impaired Cluster and a Non-Impaired Cluster.