APA Handbook of Clinical Geropsychology

The APA Handbook of Clinical Geropsychology offers a well-balanced scientist–practitioner approach, with chapters that succinctly review empirical research across a broad range of areas and offer practical approaches for the application of theory to everyday practice with the aging population.

The handbook reviews the history of clinical geropsychology and geropsychology practice, to help the reader better understand how the field has grown over the past 30 plus years and to assess the several directions in which it is headed.

Chapter authors highlight strength-based approaches to human development and aging, review the status of evidence-based treatment, explore the interface of geriatric medicine and clinical psychotherapy, review several "normal aging" areas of research, and discuss such common psychological, neurological, and other medical issues common in aging as depression, late-life anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, alcohol abuse and substance misuse, suicidal behavior, mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's, and many more.

The reader will not only gain knowledge about foundational competencies in the field of clinical geropsychology, but will also find a treasure of information related to assessment, intervention, and consultation in this continually evolving field.

Peter A. Lichtenberg, PhD, ABPP, is director of The Institute of Gerontology and the Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute. He is also a professor of psychology at Wayne State University. He received his bachelor's degree from Washington University in St. Louis, and his master's and doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Purdue University. After his internship, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in geriatric neuropsychology at the University of Virginia Medical School, where he also became a faculty member.

As a clinician and researcher throughout his career, Dr. Lichtenberg has made contributions to the practice of psychology across a variety of areas, including long-term care, medical rehabilitation with those suffering from late life depression, and age-related dementias. In 1997, he was awarded a diplomate in rehabilitation psychology, and in 2013, a diplomate in clinical geropsychology.

Dr. Lichtenberg is active in research on issues related to capacity assessment, late-life depression, minority health and aging, dementia, and disability. He has written three books and edited three more and has more than 150 peer reviewed publications. His current work is focused on the intersection between financial capacity and elder justice and on finding ways to balance autonomy and protection for older adults. In 2012, he published an article on Alzheimer's disease in capacity cases and, in 2013, the first nationally representative study on predictors of older adult fraud victims. He recently created the Lichtenberg Financial Decision Making Rating Scale, a tool to be used to assess major financial decisions and transactions of older adults.

Benjamin T. Mast, PhD, ABPP, is an associate professor and vice chair in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Louisville. He is also an associate clinical professor in the Department of Family and Geriatric Medicine. He received his bachelor's degree from Calvin College and his master's and doctoral degree from Wayne State University. Before joining the faculty at the University of Louisville, he completed his internship at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

He has been named a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and Professional Caregiver of the Year by the Alzheimer's Association, and he has received a New Investigator Award from the American Geriatrics Society.

His research, teaching, and clinical interests span a range of topics within geropsychology, including geriatric depression, evaluations of dementia syndromes, and most recently, the integration of person-centered care into the evaluation of people with dementia and other cognitive changes. He has published more than 60 papers and book chapters, as well as two books on dementia assessment and care.

Volume 1. History and Status of the Field and Perspectives on Aging

Editorial Board

About the Editors-in-Chief

Contributors

Series Preface

Introduction

I. Historical Perspectives

Historical Perspectives on Clinical Geropsychology
Norman Abeles
Pikes Peak Conference and Competency-Based Training in Professional Geropsychology
Michele J. Karel, Victor Molinari, Erin E. Emery-Tiburcio, and Bob G. Knight
Evolutions and Revolutions in Medicare Policy and Reimbursement of Geropsychology Services
Margaret P. Norris

II. Geropsychology Today

Geropsychology in Interprofessional Teams Across Different Practice Settings
Kelly O'Shea Carney, Amber M. Gum, and Antonette M. Zeiss
Evidence-Based Treatments and Their Status in Geropsychology
Forrest Scogin and Lisa Mieskowski
Research Trends in Geropsychology
George Niederehe
Ethics in Geropsychology: Status and Challenges
J. Ray Hays and Floyd L. Jennings

III. Normal Aging

Cognitive Aging and Cognitive Training
Sherry L. Willis and Julie Blaskewicz Boron
Personality Development Across the Life Span: Theory, Research, and Application
Paul W. Griffin, Daniel K. Mroczek, and Kristen Wesbecher
Emotion and Emotion Regulation
Susan T. Charles and Jennifer W. Robinette
Social Perspectives: Support, Social Relations, and Well-Being
Neal Krause and R. David Hayward
Positive Aging: At the Crossroads of Positive Psychology and Geriatric Medicine
Robert D. Hill and Derek J. Smith
Successful, Optimal, and Resilient Aging: A Psychosocial Perspective
Carolyn M. Aldwin and Heidi Igarashi

IV. Diversity in Aging Experience

Attitudes About Aging
Gregory A. Hinrichsen
Multicultural Competence in Geropsychology
David A. Chiriboga and Mario Hernandez
International Trends in Geropsychology
Nancy A. Pachana
Gender and Aging: Perspectives From Clinical Geropsychology
Susan Krauss Whitbourne and Jamila Bookwala
Understanding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Older Adults
Douglas C. Kimmel, Kate L. M. Hinrichs, and Lauren D. Fisher
Spirituality, Religion, and Aging: Clinical Geropsychology and Aging People's Need for Meaning
Susan H. McFadden
Grandparenting
Bert Hayslip Jr., Robert J. Maiden, Kyle S. Page, and Megan L. Dolbin-MacNab

V. Geriatric Medicine and Clinical Geropsychology

Dementia: A Health Care Team Perspective
Asenath La Rue
Delirium in Clinical Geropsychology
Hae Ri Na and Carol A. Manning
Aging, Chronic Disease, and the Biopsychosocial Model
Andrea M. Garroway and Bruce Rybarczyk
Psychopharmacology and Polypharmacy
Merla Arnold

Index

Volume 2: Assessment,Treatment, and Issues of Later Life

Editorial Board

Contributors

I. Assessment and Treatment for the Psychological Disorders of Aging

Depression in Later Life
Barry A. Edelstein, Patricia M. Bamonti, Jeffrey J. Gregg, and Lindsay A. Gerolimatos
Late-Life Anxiety Disorders
Emily S. Bower and Julie Loebach Wetherell
Personality Disorders in Later Life
Steve Balsis, Richard A. Zweig, and Victor Molinari
Schizophrenia in Late Life
Brent T. Mausbach and Jennifer Ho
Alcohol Abuse and Substance Misuse in Later Life
Derek D. Satre and Jennifer Price Wolf
Suicidal Behavior in Older Adults
Amy Fiske, Merideth D. Smith, and Elizabeth C. Price
Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease
Melissa Castro and Glenn E. Smith
Vascular Cognitive Impairment
David Nyenhuis
Parkinson's Disease Dementia and Dementia With Lewy Bodies
Scott A. Sperling, Alexandra C. Geneser, and Carol A. Manning
Clinico-Behavioral and Neuropathological Sequelae of Traumatic Brain Injury in the Aging Brain
Lisa Delano-Wood, Erin D. Bigler, Daniel A. Nation, Alexandra Clark, Rhoda Au, and Mark W. Bondi
Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia
Jiska Cohen-Mansfield
Person-Centered Assessment and Intervention for People With Dementia
Benjamin T. Mast, Jamie Shouse, and Cameron J. Camp
Cognitive Training for Mildly Impaired Older Adults
Lee Hyer, Christine Mullen , and Laura McKenzie
Late-Life Sleep and Sleep Disorders
Christina S. McCrae, Alicia J. Roth, Roberto Zamora, Natalie D. Dautovich, and Kenneth L. Lichstein
Sexual Health and Well-Being in the Context of Aging
Maggie L. Syme, Colleen C. Cordes, Rebecca P. Cameron, and Linda R. Mona
Pain Assessment and Management in Older Adults
Thomas Hadjistavropoulos
Diabetes and Obesity in Later Life
Erin E. Emery-Tiburcio, Lisa M. Nackers, Steven Bernfeld, and Rebecca Lahey
Mobility in Later Life
Dawn A. Skelton and Jennifer Muhaidat

II. Independence, Life Transitions, and Social Adjustments

Driving and the Transition to Nondriving Mobility: Change Process and Opportunities for Intervention
Thomas M. Meuser
Assessment and Treatment of Family Caregivers
Steven H. Zarit and Allison M. Heid
Competency and Decision-Making Capacity: Negotiating Health and Financial Decision Making
Peter A. Lichtenberg, Sara Honn Qualls, and Michael A. Smyer
Geropsychological Practice With People Near the End of Life
Brian D. Carpenter
Retirement Redefined
Harvey L. Sterns and Cynthia K. McQuown
Marriage, Second Couplehood, Divorce, and Singlehood in Old Age
Liat Ayalon and Chaya Koren
Bereavement in Later Life: Theory, Assessment, and Intervention
Robert A. Neimeyer and Jason M. Holland
Elder Abuse and Neglect
Laura Mosqueda and Bonnie Olsen

Index

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APA Handbook of Clinical Geropsychology Volume 1: History and Status of the Field and Perspectives on Aging Volume 2: Assessment, Treatment, and Issues of Later Life

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