Handbook of Assessment in Clinical Gerontology
(Sprache: Englisch)
New trends in mental healthcare practice and a rapid increase in the aged population are causing an explosion in the fields of clinical gerontology and geropsychology today. This comprehensive 2e handbook offers clinicians and graduate students clear...
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New trends in mental healthcare practice and a rapid increase in the aged population are causing an explosion in the fields of clinical gerontology and geropsychology today. This comprehensive 2e handbook offers clinicians and graduate students clear guidelines and reliable tools for assessing general mental health, cognitive functioning, functional age, psychosocial health, comorbidity, behavior deficits, and more. Psychopathology, behavioral disorders, changes in cognition, and changes in everyday functioning are addressed in full, and a wide range of conditions and disorders common to this patient population are covered. Each chapter provides an empirical review of assessment instruments, assessment scales in their totality, a review of how these instruments are used with and adapted for different cultural groups, illustration of assessments through case studies, and information on how to utilize ongoing assessment in treatment and/or treatment planning. This combination of elements will make the volume the definitive assessment source for clinicians working with elderly patients.
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New trends in mental healthcare practice and a rapid increase in the aged population are causing an explosion in the fields of clinical gerontology and geropsychology today. This comprehensive second edition handbook offers clinicians and graduate students clear guidelines and reliable tools for assessing general mental health, cognitive functioning, functional age, psychosocial health, comorbidity, behavior deficits, and more. Psychopathology, behavioral disorders, changes in cognition, and changes in everyday functioning are addressed in full, and a wide range of conditions and disorders common to this patient population are covered. Each chapter provides an empirical review of assessment instruments, assessment scales in their totality, a review of how these instruments are used with and adapted for different cultural groups, illustration of assessments through case studies, and information on how to utilize ongoing assessment in treatment and/or treatment planning. This combination of elements will make the volume the definitive assessment source for clinicians working with elderly patients.
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Section I: Psychopathology in Later Life 1. Depression and Bereavement, Barry Edelstein (W Virginia U, USA) 2. Anxiety Disorders, Cheryl N. Carmin (U Illinois Chicago, USA) 3. Assessment for Psychotherapy, Linda Dougherty (Virginia Commonwealth Univ, USA) 4. Personality Disorders 5. Psychosis and Serious MI, Linda & Donald Hay (Univ Colorado, USA) 6. Dementia, Kathryn Perez Riley (U Kentucky, USA) 7. Delirium, Donna K. Broshek (U Virginia, USA) 8. Functional and Behavioral Health, Michael J. Salamon (Adult Devel Center, NY, USA) 9. Elder Abuse and financial fraud 10. Caregiver strain and burden 11. Family functioning to support older adult Section II: Behavioral Disorders 12. Alcohol Problems, Kristen Lawton Barry(U Michigan Ann Arbor, USA) 13. Sexual Function and Dysfunction, Antonette & Robert Zeiss (VA Palo Alto Health Care System, USA) 14. Nutritional Status 15. Agitation, Lori Schindel Martin (McMaster U, Canada) 16. Sleep, Tracy Treverrow (Chaminade U, USA) 17. Rehabilitation Potential, Kathleen Sitley Brown (Health Psych Assoc, USA) 18. Treatment adherence for chronic disease behaviors/lifestyles
Section III: Cognition 19. Geriatric Neuropsychology, Asenath La Rue (U New Mexico, USA) 20. Screening and Brief Batteries, Susan E. MacNeill (Wayne State U, USA) 21. Cognitive Assessment in late stage dementia, Elisabeth Koss (Case Western, USA) 22. Personal desires of those with dementia, metacognition 23. Cognitive training
Section IV: Everyday functioning 24. Competency and Decision Making Capacity, Jennifer Moye (Harvard Med, USA) 25. Household and Neighborhood safety, mobility 26. Pain, Raymond C. Tait (St Louis U School of Med, USA) 27. Driving, Linda A. Hunt, Katherine Weston (Maryville U, USA) 28. Assessing health care functioning/integrated care
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Peter Lichtenberg
- 2010, 2. Aufl., 752 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 20,1 x 24,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Peter A. Lichtenberg
- Verlag: Academic Press
- ISBN-10: 0123749611
- ISBN-13: 9780123749611
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.09.2010
Sprache:
Englisch
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