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.
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.
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.
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.
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.