TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smyer, M.A.
AU  - Qualls, S.H.
TI  - Aging and mental health
T2  - Understanding ageing
SN  - 1557865566
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Blackwell Publishers
KW  - AGED
KW  - GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY
KW  - MENTAL HEALTH
N1  - Part 1 Introduction to mental health and ageing: introduction to the psychology of ageing. Part 2 Introduction to models of mental health and ageing: biomedical model; psychodynamic model; humanistic model; behavioural model; stress model. systems model; summary of section on models. Part 3 Introduction to mental disorders anxiety: cognitive impairment; depression; marriage/family problems; seriously mentally ill; pragmatics of assessment and intervention. Part 4 Policy and funding: service delivery contents; nursing homes/living environments; ethics; where to go from here?
N2  - Hardback; This is a comprehensive introduction to and overview of ageing and mental health. The authors have written a book that should be useful as a resource for faculty members, students and service providers in psychology, psychiatry, social work and nursing. It should be of interest to clinicians who are experienced mental health service providers but who have not had much experience of working with older adults, and to those who are being trained to enter the field.; The book provides detailed discussion of the reigning theoretical models of mental health, and their application to later life. These discussions are supplemented by case material that allows the reader to apply the perspectives to problems and prospects of later life, and by the most recent information on effective therapeutic techniques for working with older adults. As such, the book should help the clinician not only to conceptualize mental illness problems in later life, but also to assess and to treat these problems
ER  -