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

by Lichtenberg, Peter A.; Mast, Benjamin T.

• ISBN13: 9781433818042
• ISBN10: 1433818043
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Display
• Copyright: 2015-02-16
• Publisher: American Psychological Association

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.
 

Table of Contents

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

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

II. Geropsychology Today

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

III. Normal Aging

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

IV. Diversity in Aging Experience

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

V. Geriatric Medicine and Clinical Geropsychology

1. Dementia: A Health Care Team Perspective
   Asenath La Rue
2. Delirium in Clinical Geropsychology
   Hae Ri Na and Carol A. Manning
3. Aging, Chronic Disease, and the Biopsychosocial Model
   Andrea M. Garroway and Bruce Rybarczyk
4. 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

1. Depression in Later Life
   Barry A. Edelstein, Patricia M. Bamonti, Jeffrey J. Gregg, and Lindsay A. Gerolimatos
2. Late-Life Anxiety Disorders
   Emily S. Bower and Julie Loebach Wetherell
3. Personality Disorders in Later Life
   Steve Balsis, Richard A. Zweig, and Victor Molinari
4. Schizophrenia in Late Life
   Brent T. Mausbach and Jennifer Ho
5. Alcohol Abuse and Substance Misuse in Later Life
   Derek D. Satre and Jennifer Price Wolf
6. Suicidal Behavior in Older Adults
   Amy Fiske, Merideth D. Smith, and Elizabeth C. Price
7. Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease
   Melissa Castro and Glenn E. Smith
8. Vascular Cognitive Impairment
   David Nyenhuis
9. Parkinson's Disease Dementia and Dementia With Lewy Bodies
   Scott A. Sperling, Alexandra C. Geneser, and Carol A. Manning
10. 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
11. Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia
    Jiska Cohen-Mansfield
12. Person-Centered Assessment and Intervention for People With Dementia
    Benjamin T. Mast, Jamie Shouse, and Cameron J. Camp
13. Cognitive Training for Mildly Impaired Older Adults
    Lee Hyer, Christine Mullen , and Laura McKenzie
14. Late-Life Sleep and Sleep Disorders
    Christina S. McCrae, Alicia J. Roth, Roberto Zamora, Natalie D. Dautovich, and Kenneth L. Lichstein
15. Sexual Health and Well-Being in the Context of Aging
    Maggie L. Syme, Colleen C. Cordes, Rebecca P. Cameron, and Linda R. Mona
16. Pain Assessment and Management in Older Adults
    Thomas Hadjistavropoulos
17. Diabetes and Obesity in Later Life
    Erin E. Emery-Tiburcio, Lisa M. Nackers, Steven Bernfeld, and Rebecca Lahey
18. Mobility in Later Life
    Dawn A. Skelton and Jennifer Muhaidat

II. Independence, Life Transitions, and Social Adjustments

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

Index