Handbook of Clinical Psychology of Ageing - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471961361 ISBN 13: 9780471961369

Publisher: Wiley, 1996

Synopsis

This handbook focuses on the key areas in the psychology of ageing:

• Problems associated with later life development and change
• Emotional problems and depression associated with loss of physical health and with losses and changes in the areas of social relationship and personal identity
• The important clinical context of service delivery, including community care, family care-giving and institutional aspects
• A broad range of therapeutic orientations, including cognitive-behavioural, psychodynamic, and family therapy approaches.

"It is hard to do justice to the breadth of material in this book...I have found the reading of it both stimulating and enlightening, despite believing that I was familiar with most of the topics, and have no doubt that I will be using it for reaching and reference purposes into the next millennium... if there is one book a Clinical Psychologist working with older people needs...this is it!"
Steve Boddington, International Journal of Social Psychiatry

About this title

From the Publisher

This book draws together the diverse knowledge, literature base, and expertise that contribute both to the practice of clinical psychology with older people and more generally to the application of psychological principles and techniques to the problems faced by this important sector of the community. In each section, chapters cover their particular area in a rigorous and balanced fashion, supplemented by several other brief and focused contributions which provide more depth or present a specific view in detail. Identifies the cutting edge of new developments by contributions from the leading international authorities in the field.

From the Back Cover

The trend towards an ageing population, worldwide, presents important opportunities for individuals and challenges to society. The challenge to mental health professionals lies in the provision of services for the treatment, amelioration and prevention of psychosocial difficulties in older people, in accord with their own evolving expectations, and with the changing values and priorities of society. Psychologists, psychiatrists, mental health nurses, therapists and counsellors will be increasingly working with older people and their families, and this Handbook will be an essential resource for all these professionals. The chapters of the Handbook, by contributors from many countries, present up-to-date, relevant and accessible reviews of knowledge and best practice in the key areas of assessment, treatment and prevention of psychological problems in late life. The volume focuses particularly on an understanding of problems associated with later life development and change, including neuropsychological and cognitive difficulties arising from conditions such as the dementias. Also covered in depth are the emotional problems and depression associated with loss of physical health and with losses and changes in the areas of social relationship and personal identity. The clinical context of service delivery is important, and is considered in chapters dealing with community care, family care-giving and institutional aspects. A broad range of therapeutic orientations are discussed in detail-cognitive behavioural, psychodynamic, and family therapy approaches. Professional practitioners and academics in every area of health and social care for older people will welcome this comprehensive and authoritative handbook.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0471961361
• ISBN 13: 9780471961369
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 694
• Editor: Woods Robert T.