Clinical Gerontology : A Guide to Assessment and Intervention

Contents
Preface

• ASSESSMENT OF THE GERIATRIC PATIENT
• Reasons for Low Utilization of Mental Health Services by the Elderly
• Spatial Competence: Assessment of Route-Finding, Route-Learning, and Topographical Memory in Normal Aging
• The Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery and Aging
• The Clinical Use of Projective Techniques with the Aged: A Critical Review and Synthesis
• DEPRESSION SCALES FOR USE IN LATER LIFE
• Directions for Clinical-Psychosocial Assessment of Depression in the Elderly
• Use of the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale with Older Adults
• Use of the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale in the Elderly
• The Beck Depression Inventory and Older Adults: Review of Its Development and Utility
• Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS): Recent Evidence and Development of a Shorter Version
• A Brief MMPI Depression Screening Scale for the Elderly
• Assessment of Mood and Affect in the Elderly: The Depression Adjective Check List and the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List
• Assessment of Pessimism and Despair in the Elderly: A Geriatric Scale of Hopelessness
• THERAPY IN LATER LIFE
• Psychodynamic Therapy with the Aged: A Review
• Application of Gestalt Therapy to Group Work with the Aged
• Cognitive Therapy with Older Adults
• Group Therapy with Cognitively Impaired Older Adults
• Lithium Groups and Elderly Bipolar Outpatients
• Pet-Facilitated Therapies: A Review of the Literature and Clinical Implementation Considerations
• FAMILY THERAPY
• The Functional-Age Model of Intergenerational Therapy: A Social Casework Model
• The Techniques and Contexts of Multigenerational Therapy
• Understanding the Family Coping with Alzheimerâs Disease: An Application of Theory to Intervention
• Support Groups for Male Caregivers of Alzheimerâs Patients
• RELATED TOPICS
• Later Life Personality Model: Diagnosis and Treatment
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Hidden Syndrome in Elders
• Assessment and Management of Chronic Pain in the Elderly
• Clinical Application of Biofeedback Techniques for the Elderly
• Suicide in the Elderly: Assessment and Intervention
• Drug Effects in Alzheimerâs Disease
• Some Ethical Issues in Dementia Care
• Index