1. Problems with the Concept of Executive Functioning
2. The Extended Phenotype: A Foundation for Modeling Executive
Functioning
3. Executive Functioning as an Extended Phenotype
4. The Instrumental–Self-Directed Level
5. The Methodical–Self-Reliant Level
6. The Tactical–Reciprocal Level
7. The Strategic–Cooperative Level
8. The Extended Utilitarian Zone
9. Implications for Understanding Executive Functioning and Its
Disorders
10. Implications for the Assessment and Clinical Management of
Deficits in Executive Functioning
Russell A. Barkley, PhD, ABPP, ABCN, before retiring in 2021, served on the faculties of the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, the Medical University of South Carolina, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Barkley has worked with children, adolescents, and families since the 1970s and is the author of numerous bestselling books for both professionals and the public, including Taking Charge of ADHD and Your Defiant Child. He has also published six assessment scales and more than 300 scientific articles and book chapters on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, executive functioning, and childhood defiance. A frequent conference presenter and speaker who is widely cited in the national media, Dr. Barkley is past president of the Section on Clinical Child Psychology (the former Division 12) of the American Psychological Association (APA), and of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. He is a recipient of awards from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the APA, among other honors. His website is www.russellbarkley.org.
"With this seminal work, Barkley single-handedly initiates a
paradigm shift in our understanding of executive functioning (EF).
Drawing on fields as diverse as neuropsychology, neurobiology,
evolutionary biology, behavioral genetics, anthropology, and
philosophy, he achieves a masterful synthesis, culminating in a
hierarchical model of EF development through eight stages. Of
particular value, the model gives rise to ecologically valid
strategies for management of EF deficits and clearly enhances our
understanding of ADHD and other conditions in which executive
dysfunction is prominent. Highly readable, interesting, even
exciting to read, this volume will undoubtedly stimulate and guide
EF research and clinical applications for decades to come."--Mary
V. Solanto, PhD, Department of Pediatrics, Zucker School of
Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
"For real advances in the field of executive functioning (EF) to
occur, we need, first and foremost, a clear definition of the term.
Barkley has provided that clarity. He explains what executive
functions are, why they are critical to our day-to-day existence,
and how they affect society. He justifiably rejects psychometric
assessments of executive functions, based on their lack of
ecological validity, and instead proposes multilevel assessments
grounded in the natural environment. As a clinician working in the
real world of people with EF deficits, the fact that Barkley's
theory yields logical and applicable strategies for intervention is
of great significance to me."--Richard Guare, PhD, Director, Center
for Learning and Attention Disorders, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
"Barkley has never been one to shy away from new theories and
ideas. He is perhaps one of the foremost critical thinkers of our
time. Executive Functions is a tour de force of creativity and
wide-ranging thinking. Barkley offers a reasoned and reasonable
theory to understand the emerging field of EF and its related
disorders. The chapter on clinical implications is particularly
important for practitioners. This book is essential reading for
researchers, clinicians, and students interested in the
complexities of brain-behavior relationships and human
adaptation."--Sam Goldstein, PhD, Department of Psychiatry,
University of Utah School of Medicine; Clinical Director,
Neurology, Learning, and Behavior Center, Salt Lake City
"Barkley presents the best and most comprehensive and systematic
overview of the field of EF to date. His coherent theory of EF has
the potential to profoundly change the way EF is studied and
assessed in clinical populations. In outlining the problems of how
to conceptualize and assess EF--and providing compelling evidence
for an extended phenotype model--he offers a desperately needed
roadmap for future research. This volume should be on the bookshelf
of every practicing clinical neuropsychologist, and is a 'must
read' for students in neuropsychology and cognitive
neuroscience."--Ellen Braaten, PhD, Department of Psychiatry,
Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School-Barkley
develops a new framework for thinking about executive functions by
describing them through a biological evolutionary paradigm....He
shines a new light on a new path to discovering more about
executive functions. Although helping to answer many questions, he
leaves much to be discovered, in effect tantalizing and prodding
the reader to engage in future research endeavors that might bring
us closer to understanding executive functions and what makes us
human.--PsycCRITIQUES, 1/23/2013ƒƒBarkley...a widely recognized
expert, provides a fresh and original look....Barkley's account is
deliberately psychological and functional rather than
neuroanatomical, and provides an important reconceptualization for
those working in the area of EFs. Recommended. Upper-division
graduates and above.--Choice Reviews, 12/1/2012ƒƒReaders will find
this book fascinating if they take the time to sift through
Barkley's findings along with the research data. I know I did,
because I have a daughter who struggles with ADHD, and this book
weaves the correlation between ADHD and executive functioning (EF)
in a way that no other book (to my knowledge) has done before.--The
Chronical, 1/22/2015
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