Psychological Assessment And Therapy With Older Adults

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 and Pachana 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.--Publisher's website.

• | Author: Bob G. Knight, Nancy A. Pachana
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 08, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 296 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0199652538
• | ISBN-13: 9780199652532