Gp. Prigatano et Ps. Klonoff, A CLINICIAN RATING-SCALE FOR EVALUATING IMPAIRED SELF-AWARENESS AND DENIAL OF DISABILITY AFTER BRAIN INJURY, Clinical neuropsychologist, 12(1), 1998, pp. 56-67
Disturbances of self-awareness after various brain injuries are diffic
ult to measure. A distinction between impaired self-awareness versus d
enial of disability following brain injury seems clinically warranted.
An experimental rating scale to help clinicians evaluate these two in
teracting disturbances is presented with interrater reliability data a
nd an initial lest of construct validation.