Geropsychology and Elder Care

Provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of aging, exploring the key behavioral and social science theories, concepts, and methods.

Presenting an objective view of the realities of aging, both positive and negative, the book examines aging from micro/macro, personal, community, societal, and global perspectives.

The effects of physical changes on the individual are examined in terms of identity, as well as the impact of identity on the interpretation of these changes.

How physical and contextual factors interact can help explain why some cognitive functions are impaired in aging while others are spared and why cognitive capability is impaired in some older adults and spared in others.

Scholars from several disciplines consider the way in which meaning can be found in this important stage of later life. They discuss sociological, psychological, and religious determinants of responses to the challenges of finding meaningful activity after retirement.

This volume on clinical geropsychology provides an overview of the field.

Examines the experience of aging from the standpoint of the individual, rather than as merely a collection of statistics and charts.

Explores the reciprocal relations between aging and emotion as well as how best to promote mental and physical health across the lifespan.

Provides an up-to-date synthesis of the latest research on the meaning of place to older people and its relationship to well-being.

Introduces a structured decision-making process that draws heavily from principle-based and positive ethics and provides practical applications of the APA Ethics Code while also accounting for federal laws and regulations.

Expert researchers and practitioners share essential information about providing mental health services to older adults in forensic contexts, and to the courts and judges involved.

Core graduate level textbook provides the most current findings from leading gerontological researchers and practitioners.

presents nearly 110 interactive geriatric health case studies depicting a vast range of realistic scenarios--physical, mental, and psychosocial--that may present to nurses who work with aging adults.

Explores the major topics in social gerontology worldwide and the demands that the aging population places on a society.

Describes the major psychotherapeutic approaches that have been used with older people, including behavioural, cognitive-behavioural, interpersonal, psychoanalytic, and family therapy.

The pioneering psychologists who developed the field of adult development and aging share their life stories and, in the process, describe the emergence of this field.

Provides psychology instructors with practical instruction for integrating ageing and adult development topics into their courses.

Offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the broad range of topics that comprise gerontology, using theoretical and research-based information while providing engrossing narratives and real examples of new trends, surprising findings, and controversial topics.

This volume addresses the shortage of well-trained psychology personnel, by outlining the key issues in training in clinical geropsychology for persons who train and supervise psychologists.

Provides comprehensive information about the applications of narrative approaches in community and long-term settings, writing in the virtual world, and such individual work as journaling or poetry.

Examines the latest theories and research o n how aging affects a wide variety of aspects -- memory, social relationships, emotion, and mental health.

The purpose of this book is to present research from around the world related to a wide range of life satisfaction issues.