Geropsychology and Elder Care

Helping medical students prepare for careers in the field of gerontology, Dr. Jim Pacala, Dean of the University of Minnesota Medical School, introduces these eager clinicians to the world of their patients.

In this program, Paul and Margret Baltes discuss their model of adaptive competence in old age. They also discuss positive aging experiences.

This seminar, presented by professor Rebecca E. Michel, discusses aspects of aging.

This film demonstrates the many ways in which art therapy can enrich and give meaning to the later years; and can affirm the wisdom and self-awareness that comes to those who have lived a full life, and have developed the capacity to manage a multitude of challenges.

This video discusses the use of cognitive behavioral therapy in the treatment of older adults, specifically those with generalized anxiety disorder. A demonstration of the intake process, treatment plan, and follow-up are shown with a slide show and subtitles that emphasize key concepts.

Key themes in therapy with elders are power and control reflected in conflicts with children who live nearby, sadness over what feel like missed opportunities professionally and excitement (and fear) over exploring new possibilities for how they want to live this last chapter of their lives.

This workshop will focus on providing counselling services to the elderly and aged. It will touch on topics relating to elderly suicide, elderly abuse, spirituality and common physical and mental health problems that the aged and elderly faces.

Join Susan Fralick-Ball, Psy.D., MSN, CH, a neuropsychologist and geriatric nurse specialist with over 30 years’ experience working effectively to assess and treat the elderly who have challenging behaviors and complicated co-morbid psychological and medical conditions.

Addresses how to establish and conduct group counseling with elders, discrimination against the elderly, and facilitating transitions.

Presents how to use existing counseling skills with elders. Attending and listening skills are particularly vital. The need to avoid stereotyping.

Understanding the aging process as normal development. Translates theory into clear ideas for practice. Interviews with elders illustrate key issues.

Successful aging requires effective planning. As we age, we need life and career planning just as much as in earlier times. Videos addresses counseling elders on the future, pre-retirement, work, and leisure.

Covers economics, age prejudice, and intergenerational conflicts, as well as stress, drug abuse, gender roles, elder abuse. Includes many individual and group vignettes of counseling issues.

Freud and Piaget were wrong when they tacitly suggested that intellectual and emotional development end at adolescence. Jumping forward from adolescent cognition, this five-part series largely focuses on the years described by Erik Erikson as the eighth stage: maturity.

Dr. Lisa Hollis-Sawyer discusses aging and the psychology of aging. Chronological aging refers to a person's actual age, and functional aging refers to a person's functional capacity. Aging has positive and negative effects, and people can cope with these effects through selective optimization and compensation.

This program profiles older Americans dealing with substance abuse issues, and shows some innovative programs created specifically for the elderly.