Golden, C. J., Warren, W. L., & Espe-Pfeiffer, P. (Eds.). (1999). LNNB Handbook: 20th Anniversary (Vol. I & II). Los Angeles: Western Psychological Services.

Volume I provides a detailed review of interpretive strategies, scale elevations, and item analysis based on updated norms. It also supports use of the Screening Test for the LNNB, especially with children. Distinguished researchers and clinicians discuss use of the battery with special populations—children, older people, and culturally different individuals— and for specific purposes such as forensics, prediction of functional capacity, and managed care applications. A particularly useful section provides rules for shortening the battery in HMO settings, when testing very high- or very low-functioning clients. Volume II gives LNNB users access to primary sources, previously out of print, that address the test’s psychometric and logical foundations. Articles by James A. Moses, Jr., Mark E. Maruish, Michael D. Franzen, Charles Golden, and many others cover reliability, construct and concurrent validity, cognitive deficit in schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders, specific neurologic syndromes, critiques and rebuttals, feigning brain damage on the LNNB, effects of clinical depression on LNNB scores, a short form for elderly clients, and much more. These articles provide strong psychometric support for using the LNNB.

Buy Vol I at WPS: $50