Psychological Assessment and Therapy with Older Adults

Psychological Assessment and Therapy with Older Adults
ISBN-10
0199652538
ISBN-13
9780199652532
Category
Medical
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Authors
Bob G. Knight, Nancy A. Pachana

Description

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 andPachana 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.

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