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Various 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. This handbook offers clinicians and graduate students guidelines and tools for assessing general mental health, cognitive functioning, functional age, and behavior deficits.
List of contents
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
