Guide to Pscyhotherapy & Aging: Effective Clinical Interventions in a Life Stage Context - Softcover

American Psychological Association

9781557985699: Guide to Pscyhotherapy & Aging: Effective Clinical Interventions in a Life Stage Context

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557985693 ISBN 13: 9781557985699

Publisher: American Psychological Association, 2001

"A Guide to Psychotherapy and Aging: Effective Clinical Interventions in a Life Stage Context" provides a comprehensive overview of clinical interventions with older adults. Despite stereotypes that older people respond poorly to treatment, both research and clinical experience confirm that older people respond well to appropriate interventions. Written by experienced clinicians, the chapters in this edited volume describe the major psychotherapeutic approaches that have been used with older people, including behavioural, cognitive-behavioural, interpersonal, psychoanalytic, and family therapy. These chapters combine theory and research with case examples but emphasise the practical decisions that clinicians working with older people face in both individual and institutional settings. Filling out these therapeutic techniques are chapters devoted to special issues that are critical to effective practice with older adults, including assessment, the interface of medical and psychological treatment, interventions in nursing homes, and ethical considerations. The 12 chapters in this volume are divided into two parts. The first provides chapters on specific interventions and the second covers contextual information that is needed for those working with this population. The volume is aimed at experienced clinicians who are interested in working with the elderly (whether in individual practice or in institutional settings), graduate students who are interested in working in geropsychology, and doctors, nurses and social workers who work within the aging network.

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About the Author:

Bob G. Knight, Ph.D., is the Merle H. Bensinger Professor of Gerontology, Psychology, and Counseling Psychology at the Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California, where he also serves as Director of the Tingstad Older Adult Counseling Center and faculty director of the Los Angeles Caregiver Resource Center. He is currently serving the Department of Psychology as Director of Clinical Training. His research interests include caregiving, emotion and aging, and mental health policy and aging, and he has published extensively in mental health and aging, including this book, "Outreach with the Elderly" (NYU Press, 1989), and "Older Adults in Psychotherapy: Case Histories" (Sage, 1992). He is the senior editor of "Mental Health Services for Older Adults: Implications for Training & Practice in Geropsychology" (1995), and a co-editor of "A Guide to Psychotherapy & Aging: Effective Clinical Interventions in a Life-Stage Context "(1996), both published by APA Books. Dr. Knight has been active in various professional organizations relating to psychology and aging. He served as President of Section II, Division 12 (Clinical Geropsychology) of the American Psychological Association in 1997. He is currently (2002-2003) President Elect of APA Division 20 (Adult Development and Aging), and he served as chair of the APA Committee in Aging in 2001. Dr. Knight received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Indiana University, Bloomington. His professional experience in working with older adults began while working at the Urban League of Madison County (IN) where he organized and served as first president of the Madison County Council on Aging in 1973.

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