Normal and abnormal ageing
Bob Woods
in Handbook of Emotional Disorders in Later Life: Assessment and Treatment
This chapter presents an overview of changes associated with ageing, and the distinction between normal and abnormal ageing. It explores aging in physical health, cognitive function, ...
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A lifespan developmental perspective of psychological ageing
K. Warner Schaie
in Handbook of Emotional Disorders in Later Life: Assessment and Treatment
This introductory chapter summarizes some of the major theoretical and methodological issues in studying normal ageing from a lifespan perspective. It reviews the normative changes that ...
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Specialty Competencies in Geropsychology
Victor Molinari (ed.)
This resource describes the foundational and functional competencies underlying geropsychology, which is the area in professional psychology that focuses on the psychological and behavioral ...
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Mental Health and Mental Disorders in Older Adults
Sara Honn Qualls
in Gerontology: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
This chapter considers mental health and mental disorders in older adults. It outlines the epidemiology and characteristics of the most prevalent mental disorders, along with strategies for ...
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Work, Leisure, and Retirement
Harvey L. Sterns and Jennifer Hurd Gray
in Gerontology: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
This chapter explores work, leisure, and retirement. It explores the history of the concept of retirement, the changing nature of retirement, a comprehensive model of retirement and related ...
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Intelligence and Cognitive Potential in Late Life
Roger A. Dixon and David F. Hultsch
in Gerontology: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
This chapter explore intelligence and cognitive potential in late life, including both long-standing and novel issues. The chapter first focuses on intellectual development, followed by ...
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Midlife-Onset Eating Disorders
Cristin D. Runfola, Jessica H. Baker, and Cynthia M. Bulik
in Clinical Handbook of Complex and Atypical Eating Disorders
It is not infrequent to see older adults present with eating disorder behaviors or diagnoses. This chapter reviews the prevalence, incidence, and clinical presentation of eating disorders ...
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Assessment and treatment of anxiety in later life
Jeffrey A. Cully and Melinda A. Stanley
in Handbook of Emotional Disorders in Later Life: Assessment and Treatment
This chapter explores the assessment and treatment of anxiety in later life, and addresses the importance and complexity of diagnosing and treating late-life anxiety disorders, with a ...
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Assessment and treatment of depression
Kaci Fairchild and Forrest Scogin
in Handbook of Emotional Disorders in Later Life: Assessment and Treatment
This chapter discusses the presentation of depression in older adults and some of the challenges clinicians face when diagnosing and treating depression in this population. It explores ...
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Conceptual and Scientific Foundations
Susan Krauss Whitbourne and Lauren A. Zeranski
in Specialty Competencies in Geropsychology
This chapter is meant to provide a comprehensive overview of the aging process, including descriptions of the physical, psychological, social, and environmental challenges that can ...
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Physical Changes
Susan Krauss Whitbourne
in Gerontology: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
This chapter discusses the physical changes involved in aging. It summarizes and analyses the most significant age-related changes in physical functioning in terms of their impact on the ...
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Theories of Aging in the Biological, Behavioral, and Social Sciences
John C. Cavanaugh
in Gerontology: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
This chapter considers the range of theories of aging in the biological, behavioral, and social sciences. It includes developmental forces and the meaning of age, before detailing theories ...
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Immunity, Disease Processes, and Optimal Aging
Carolyn M. Aldwin and Diane F. Gilmer
in Gerontology: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
This chapter focuses on immunity, disease processes, and optimal aging. It discusses impairment the regulatory systems (immune, nervous, endocrine), as well as the diseases thereof. It also ...
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Demographics of the US Military
Richard L. Dixon and Jean M. Dixon
in Military Psychologists' Desk Reference
The current, post 9/11 military is an all-volunteer group of people that constitutes less than one percent of the population of the United States. Despite this small percentage, military ...
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Developmental Variations in the Prevalence and Manifestation of Anxiety Disorders
Danielle D. Weiss and Cynthia G. Last
in The Developmental Psychopathology of Anxiety
This chapter provides a comprehensive, integrative review ofcurrent research on the manifestation and prevalence of anxiety disordersthroughout childhood and across genders. It discusses ...
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The Prevalence, Stability, and Impact of Personality Pathology in Later Life: Preliminary Findings From the SPAN Study
Thomas F. Oltmanns and Steve Balsis
in Using Basic Personality Research to Inform Personality Pathology
This chapter notes that much research has examined the onset and stability of personality disorders through early adulthood with very little research examining personality disorders from ...
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Intergenerational Relationships in Later-Life Families: Adult Daughters and Sons as Caregivers to Aging Parents
Mary Ann Parris Stephens and Melissa M. Franks
in Gerontology: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
This chapter examines the ways in which a parent’s chronic illness or disabling health condition affects the patterns of support provided by their adult children. It discusses the role of ...
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Public Policy Issues
Robert H. Binstock
in Gerontology: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
This chapter examines the future of policies on aging and the politics that affects them. It starts with an account of how the political context of policies on aging has changed over the ...
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Dying and Bereavement
Robert Kastenbaum
in Gerontology: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
This chapter explores dying and bereavement. It first outlines the major causes of death for elderly men and women, and trends that are in evidence in order to present a context for ...
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Basic Cognitive Processes
Elizabeth A. L. Stine-Morrow and Lisa M. Soederberg Miller
in Gerontology: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
This chapter aims to explore the nature of the relationship between aging and cognitive processes. It considers how cognitive psychologists conceptualize the structure and function of human ...
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