Course Adoption Books on Aging

  • Adaptation to Changing Health

    This book examines response shift in quality of life, including theoretical underpinnings, methodology, and application to treatment outcomes research and medical decision making.

  • The Aging Workforce

    This book examines the changing demographics of the workforce, and their impact on the world of work.

  • Bereavement in Late Life

    Presents a critical review of the literature and dominant theories in the field of bereavement and examine how protective and problematic developmental processes affect the experience of bereavement in late life.

  • Clinical Geropsychology

    This APA book provides invaluable guidance for working with aging populations.

  • Featuring Females

    This book analyzes the portrayals of women in a variety of outlets including reality television shows, films, print and electronic news programming, magazines, video games, and commercial advertising.

  • Handbook of Bereavement Research

    This APA book provides a broad view of diverse approaches to bereavement, examining both normal adaptation and complicated manifestations of grief.

  • Integrating Aging Topics Into Psychology

    This book provides psychology instructors with practical instruction for integrating aging and adult development topics into their courses.

  • Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Older Adults

    This book is the first clinical book on how to conduct Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) with persons 65 years of age and older.

  • Meaning Reconstruction and the Experience of Loss

    This APA book offers new paradigms for approaching loss, based on the tenets that symptoms in the bereaved have meaning and that its reconstruction in response to loss is the central process of grieving.

  • Medical Adherence and Aging

    Prominent psychologists and geriatricians examine the research on nonadherence using a cognitive, social, and developmental framework.

  • Neuropsychological Assessment of Dementia and Depression in Older Adults

    This book reviews the most up-to-date research on the diagnosis of dementia and depression.

  • The Origin of Mind

    This ground-breaking book sets out a comprehensive, integrated theory of why and how the human mind has developed to function as it does.

  • Psychology and the Aging Revolution

    This APA book examines the latest theories and research on how aging affects a wide variety of aspects such as memory, social relationships, emotions and mental health.