Evidence-Based Counseling and Psychotherapy for an Aging Population discusses the primary issues facing older adults and the psycho-social therapies that are most effective in helping older adults cope with depression, anxiety, love and intimacy, work, retirement, loneliness and isolation, substance abuse, and health-related problems including Alzheimer's disease, dementia, terminal illness, and bereavement. The book is the third in a series of books by the author on evidence-based practice and includes the latest research with case studies showing how evidence-based practice can be applied to older adult clients. The book also includes personal stories from older adults that describe their unique ways of overcoming serious social and emotional problems to achieve successful aging.
- In-depth discussions of evidence-based practice and how it can be applied to older adults-a rapidly growing population that is underserved by human service professionals
- An easy-to-read writing style that summarizes hundreds of pieces of relevant research for the busy clinician, researcher, and student
- Personal stories and interesting case studies that show how older adults overcome serious problems including loss of loved ones, traumas, health problems, relationship difficulties, and a number of common problems that affect older adults
- Current research on the most effective psycho-social therapies for helping older adults cope with a variety of social, emotional and health-related problems
Evidence-Based Counseling and Psychotherapy for an Aging PopulationMorley D. Glicken
Department of Social Work, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona
Dr. Morley D. Glicken is the former Dean of the Worden School of Social Service in San Antonio; the founding director of the Master of Social Work Department at California State University, San Bernardino; the past Director of the Master of Social Work Program at the University of Alabama; and the former Executive Director of Jewish Family Service of Greater Tucson. He has also held faculty positions in social work at the University of Kansas and Arizona State University. He currently teaches in the Department of Social Work at Arizona State University West in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Glicken received his BA degree in social work with a minor in psychology from the University of North Dakota and holds an MSW degree from the University of Washington and the MPA and DSW degrees from the University of Utah. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honorary Fraternity. Dr. Glicken published two books for Allyn and Bacon/Longman Publishers in 2002: The Role of the Helping Professions in the Treatment of Victims and Perpetrators of Crime (with Dale Sechrest), and A Simple Guide to Social Research; and two additional books for Allyn and Bacon/Longman in 2003: Violent Young Children, and Understanding and Using the Strengths Perspective. He published Improving the Effectiveness of the Helping Professions: An Evidence-Based Approach to Practice in 2004 for Sage Publications and Working with Troubled Men: A Practitioner's Guide for Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers in Spring 2005. In 2006 he published Life Lessons from Resilient People, and Social Work in the 21st Century: An Introduction to Social Problems, Social Welfare Organizations, and the Profession of Social Work, both published by Sage Publications. In 2008 he published A Guide to Writing for Human Service Professionals for Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. In 2009 Rowman And Littlefield will publish his book Evidence Based Practice with Older Adults: A Psychosocial Perspective. Hi