APA Handbook of Clinical Geropsychology

Part of the landmark APA Handbooks in Psychology^® Series from APA

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.

Volume 1. History and Status of the Field and Perspectives on Aging

Editorial Board

About the Editors-in-Chief

Contributors

Series Preface

Introduction

Part I. Historical Perspectives

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

Part II. Geropsychology Today

• Chapter 4: Geropsychology in Interprofessional Teams Across Different Practice Settings
  Kelly O'Shea Carney, Amber M. Gum, and Antonette M. Zeiss
• Chapter 5: Evidence-Based Treatments and Their Status in Geropsychology
  Forrest Scogin and Lisa Mieskowski
• Chapter 6: Research Trends in Geropsychology
  George Niederehe
• Chapter 7: Ethics in Geropsychology: Status and Challenges
  J. Ray Hays and Floyd L. Jennings

Part III. Normal Aging

• Chapter 8: Cognitive Aging and Cognitive Training
  Sherry L. Willis and Julie Blaskewicz Boron
• Chapter 9: Personality Development Across the Life Span: Theory, Research, and Application
  Paul W. Griffin, Daniel K. Mroczek, and Kristen Wesbecher
• Chapter 10: Emotion and Emotion Regulation
  Susan T. Charles and Jennifer W. Robinette
• Chapter 11: Social Perspectives: Support, Social Relations, and Well-Being
  Neal Krause and R. David Hayward
• Chapter 12: Positive Aging: At the Crossroads of Positive Psychology and Geriatric Medicine
  Robert D. Hill and Derek J. Smith
• Chapter 13: Successful, Optimal, and Resilient Aging: A Psychosocial Perspective
  Carolyn M. Aldwin and Heidi Igarashi

Part IV. Diversity in Aging Experience

• Chapter 14: Attitudes About Aging
  Gregory A. Hinrichsen
• Chapter 15: Multicultural Competence in Geropsychology
  David A. Chiriboga and Mario Hernandez
• Chapter 16: International Trends in Geropsychology
  Nancy A. Pachana
• Chapter 17: Gender and Aging: Perspectives From Clinical Geropsychology
  Susan Krauss Whitbourne and Jamila Bookwala
• Chapter 18: Understanding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Older Adults
  Douglas C. Kimmel, Kate L. M. Hinrichs, and Lauren D. Fisher
• Chapter 19: Spirituality, Religion, and Aging: Clinical Geropsychology and Aging People's Need for Meaning
  Susan H. McFadden
• Chapter 20: Grandparenting
  Bert Hayslip Jr., Robert J. Maiden, Kyle S. Page, and Megan L. Dolbin-MacNab

Part V. Geriatric Medicine and Clinical Geropsychology

• Chapter 21: Dementia: A Health Care Team Perspective
  Asenath La Rue
• Chapter 22: Delirium in Clinical Geropsychology
  Hae Ri Na and Carol A. Manning
• Chapter 23: Aging, Chronic Disease, and the Biopsychosocial Model
  Andrea M. Garroway and Bruce Rybarczyk
• Chapter 24: Psychopharmacology and Polypharmacy
  Merla Arnold

Index

Volume 2. Assessment,Treatment, and Issues of Later Life

Editorial Board

Contributors

Part I. Assessment and Treatment for the Psychological Disorders of Aging

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

Part II. Independence, Life Transitions, and Social Adjustments

• Chapter 19: Driving and the Transition to Nondriving Mobility: Change Process and Opportunities for Intervention
  Thomas M. Meuser
• Chapter 20: Assessment and Treatment of Family Caregivers
  Steven H. Zarit and Allison M. Heid
• Chapter 21: Competency and Decision-Making Capacity: Negotiating Health and Financial Decision Making
  Peter A. Lichtenberg, Sara Honn Qualls, and Michael A. Smyer
• Chapter 22: Geropsychological Practice With People Near the End of Life
  Brian D. Carpenter
• Chapter 23: Retirement Redefined
  Harvey L. Sterns and Cynthia K. McQuown
• Chapter 24: Marriage, Second Couplehood, Divorce, and Singlehood in Old Age
  Liat Ayalon and Chaya Koren
• Chapter 25: Bereavement in Later Life: Theory, Assessment, and Intervention
  Robert A. Neimeyer and Jason M. Holland
• Chapter 26: Elder Abuse and Neglect
  Laura Mosqueda and Bonnie Olsen

Index

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.

This two-volume set runs the gamut of geropsychology, from historical perspectives and theory to assessment and treatment. Must-reading for clinicians and researchers in the field.
—Doody's Review Service