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Title

Mental health care for elderly people / editors, Ian J. Norman, Sally J. Redfern ; foreword by Sally Greengross.

Publication

New York : Churchill Livingstone, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Norman, Ian J.
• Redfern, Sally J.

Description

xviii, 584 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Aged
• Mental Disorders > therapy
• Mental Health Services
• Mental Health Services > organization & administration
• Older people > Mental health services
• Psychotherapy for older people
• United Kingdom
• United Kingdom

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Sect. 1. Mental health, old age and society. 1. The demography and mental health of elderly people. 2. Psychosocial approaches to ageing and mental health. 3. Biological approaches to ageing and mental health -- Sect. 2. Understanding mental health problems in later life. 4. Developmental problems in later life. 5. Learning disability in later life. 6. Assessment of older people. 7. Anxiety in later life. 8. Depression and mania in later life. 9. Suicide in later life. 10. Acute and sub-acute confusional states (delirium) in later life. 11. Dementia. 12. Substance misuse in the elderly. 13. Schizophrenia in later life. 14. Struggling with services. 15. Mental health promotion in old age -- Sect. 3. Therapeutic intervention. 16. Counselling: maintaining mental health in older age. 17. Speech, language and communication. 18. Reducing challenging behaviour of elderly confused people: a behavioural perspective. 19. Cognitive therapy with older people.

ISBN

0443051739

LCCN

^^^96025834^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library