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By
Morley Glicken, Department of Social Work, Arizona State University West, Phoenix, USA
Included in series
Practical Resources for the Mental Health Professional,
Description
At a time when the mental health difficulties/disorders of the elderly are coming to the fore of many practitioners' patient rosters,
naming and treating those problems is still too often handled as an art as much as a science. Inconsistent practices based on clinical
experience and intuition rather than hard scientific evidence of efficacy have for too long been the basis of much treatment. Evidence-based
practices help to alleviate some of the confusion, allowing the practitioner to develop quality practice guidelines that can be applied
to the client, identify appropriate literature that can be shared with the client, communicate with other professionals from a knowledge-guided
frame of reference, and continue a process of self-learning that results in the best possible treatment for clients.
The proposed
volume will provide practitioners with a state-of-the-art compilation of evidence-based practices in the assessment and treatment of
elderly clients. As such it will be more clinically useful than anything currently on the market and will better enable practitioners
to meet the demands faced in private and institutional practice. Focusing on the most current research and best evidence regarding assessment,
diagnosis, and treatment, the volume covers difficulties including, but not limited to: social isolation/loneliness, elder abuse/neglect, depression and suicidal inclinations, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, dementias, prolonged bereavement, patients with terminal illnesses.
Because
concrete research evidence is so often not used as the basis for practice, this book provides a timely guide for clinicians, social workers,
and advanced students to a research-oriented approach to serving the mental health needs of elderly adults.
Audience
Practicing mental health and human service professionals working with elderly clients; graduate students in clinical, counseling, social work, and human services programs
Contents
Part 1: Psychosocial Perspectives of Aging
Chapter 1: Aging in America: Psychosocial Treatment Issues
Chapter 2:
Successful Aging
Part II: Understanding Evidence-Based Practice
Chapter 3: An Explanation of Evidence-Based Practice and
its Application to Clinical Work with Older Adults
Chapter 4: Using Evidence-Based Practice to Diagnose and Assess Psychosocial Difficulties
in Older Adults
Chapter 5: Evidence-Based Practice and the Client-Worker Relationship with Older Adults
Part III: Evidence-Based
Practice and Psychosocial Problems of Older Adults
Chapter 6: Love and Intimacy in Older Adulthood
Chapter 7: Work, Retirement,
and Ageism in the Workplace
Chapter 8: Evidence-Based Practice with Older Adults Experiencing Social Isolation and Loneliness
Chapter
9: Evidence-Based Practice and Older Adults Experiencing Elder Abuse and Neglect
Chapter 10: Evidence-Based Practice with Depressed
and Suicidal Older Adults
Chapter 11: Evidence-Based Practice with Older Clients Experiencing Anxiety
Chapter 12: Evidence-Based
Practice with Older Adults Who Abuse Substances
Part IV: The Impact of Spirituality and Religion and the Significance of Self?Help
Groups
Chapter 13: Evidence-Based Practice and the Significance of Religion and Spirituality in the Lives of Older Adults
Chapter
14: Evidence-Based Practice and the Effectiveness of Self-Help Groups with Older Adults
Part V: Evidence-Based Practice and Health
Issues of Older Adults
Chapter 15: Evidence-Based Practice with Alzheimer?s Disease and Dementia
Chapter 16: Evidence-Based
Practice with Disabilities, Terminal Illness, and Assisted Living
Chapter 17: Hospice and Bereavement
Part VI: Policy Issues
and the Future of Care for Older Adults
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Hardbound, 450 pages, publication date: JUL-2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-374937-6
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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