Mental Health Practice in Geriatric Health Care Settings
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Mental Health Practice in Geriatric Health Care Settings

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Mental Health Practice in Geriatric Health Care Settings

About this book

Mental Health Practice in Geriatric Health Care Settings emphasizes the major research and clinical findings realized in five years of research on mental health issues in older urban medical patients, many of whom represent minority groups. Chapters cover the high comorbidity of health and mental health problems in geriatric patients, neuropsychological (or cognitive) assessment, depression, alcohol abuse in health care settings, emerging behavioral medicine issues, and family relations and their tie to medical settings. As a practitioner, you'll find this book helps your practice by representing the first assessment and treatment techniques normed and validated on minority elderly. If you're a professional working in the mental health system, you'll see how to expand your services to health care markets.Mental Health Practice in Geriatric Health Care Settings devotes three chapters to neuropsychological assessment--first, a review of major principles; second, a new test battery for minorities; and third, extensive review on how to use test results in clinical decision making. Other chapters provide valuable information on:

  • the analysis of outcomes for one thousand 60--103-year-olds
  • a new validated behavioral treatment method for depression
  • methods of detection and treatment of alcohol abuse
  • emerging issues in behavioral medicine, including competency assessments; anxiety and pain disorders; and shaping the referral process
  • family relations and health care, including caregiving and nursing home placement
  • nursing home consultation and survival strategies in health care systemsAs Author Peter A. Lichtenberg describes in the Introduction, each chapter in Mental Health Practice in Geriatric Health Care Settings is multidisciplinary, empirically and statistically investigated, and focused upon urban elderly. "In addition, the major objectives are to provide clinicians with new understandings and new assessment and treatment knowledge to utilize in their practices. Finally, this book is hoped to provide clinicians [with] information about emerging trends in the field, and effective strategies for practice in healthcare settings."

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Yes, you can access Mental Health Practice in Geriatric Health Care Settings by T.L. Brink,Peter A Lichtenberg in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psychology & Mental Health in Psychology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9781317826637
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Mental Health in Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: The Links Between Physical and Mental Health
  8. Chapter 1. Overview
  9. Chapter 2. Influence of Cognition on Health Outcomes
  10. Chapter 3. The Role of Depression in Geriatric Health Outcomes
  11. Chapter 4. Perspectives on Cognition in Normal Elderly and in Those with Alzheimer's Disease
  12. Chapter 5. The Normative Studies Research Project Test Battery
  13. Chapter 6. Utilizing the NSRP Test Battery
  14. Chapter 7. Behavioral Treatment of Geriatric Depression in Health Care Settings
  15. Chapter 8. Detection and Treatment of Alcohol Abuse
  16. Chapter 9. Emerging Areas in Geriatric Health Care Practice
  17. Chapter 10. Mental Health Practitioners' Survival of Health Care Changes
  18. References
  19. Index