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Psychological assessment and therapy with older adults / Bob G. Knight and Nancy A. Pachana.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: viii, 272 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0199652538
  • 9780199652532
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 618.97689 23
LOC classification:
  • RC451.4.A5 K65 2015
Contents:
1. The CALTAP Model and Working with the Older Adult Client -- 2. CALTAP in Assessment Approaches and Strategies -- 3. Depression in Late Life -- 4. Anxiety in Later Life -- 5. Dementia -- 6. Psychological Issues Affecting Medical Conditions -- 7. Substance Misuse and Abuse -- 8. Sleep Disorders and Complaints in Later Life -- 9. Psychosis and Bipolar Disorder -- 10. Personality Disorders in Older Adults -- 11. Supervision and Consultation in Clinical Geropsychology.
Summary: "Due to improvements in health and healthcare, the elderly population is expanding rapidly within the developed world. However, more and more elderly people require some form of psychological support at some point in their later years. The types of problems faced by this population are quite distinct and often more complex than those faced by younger adults, and throw up many new challenges - in both assessment and treatment. Within this book Knight and Pachana argue that psychological assessment needs to be more tightly integrated with therapy, especially with older adult clients. Using the Contextual Adult Lifespan Theory for Adapting Psychotherapy (CALTAP) as a framework for applying our knowledge about developmental, social contextual, and cohort/generational factors that influence age differences in response to psychological assessment and therapy, they present an integrated framework for psychological assessment and therapy with older adults."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The CALTAP Model and Working with the Older Adult Client -- 2. CALTAP in Assessment Approaches and Strategies -- 3. Depression in Late Life -- 4. Anxiety in Later Life -- 5. Dementia -- 6. Psychological Issues Affecting Medical Conditions -- 7. Substance Misuse and Abuse -- 8. Sleep Disorders and Complaints in Later Life -- 9. Psychosis and Bipolar Disorder -- 10. Personality Disorders in Older Adults -- 11. Supervision and Consultation in Clinical Geropsychology.

"Due to improvements in health and healthcare, the elderly population is expanding rapidly within the developed world. However, more and more elderly people require some form of psychological support at some point in their later years. The types of problems faced by this population are quite distinct and often more complex than those faced by younger adults, and throw up many new challenges - in both assessment and treatment. Within this book Knight and Pachana argue that psychological assessment needs to be more tightly integrated with therapy, especially with older adult clients. Using the Contextual Adult Lifespan Theory for Adapting Psychotherapy (CALTAP) as a framework for applying our knowledge about developmental, social contextual, and cohort/generational factors that influence age differences in response to psychological assessment and therapy, they present an integrated framework for psychological assessment and therapy with older adults."--Publisher's website.

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