Mental Health Practice in Geriatric Health Care Settings emphasises the major research and clinical findings realised 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 assessment, depression, alcohol abuse in health care settings, emerging behavioural medicine issues, and family relations and their tie to medical settings. This book helps practitioners by representing the first assessment and treatment techniques normed and validated on minority elderly.
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- The analysis of outcomes for one thousand 60–103-year-olds
- A new validated behavioural treatment method for depression
- Methods of detection and treatment of alcohol abuse
- Emerging issues in behavioural 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 systems
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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, an extensive review on how to use test results in clinical decision making. As Author Peter A. Lichtenberg describes in the Introduction, each chapter is multidisciplinary, empirically and statistically investigated, and focused upon urban elderly. The major objectives are to provide clinicians with new understandings and new assessment techniques.
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