| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 718 pages) |
| Contents |
Foundations of gerontology- history, training, and methodology / Joseph Zubin -- Academic and professional training in the psychology of aging / James E. Birren & Diana S. Woodruff -- On the history of psychological gerontology / Klaus F. Riegel -- Experimental studies / Carl Eisdorfer -- Cognition and aging: verbal learning, memory, problem solving, and aging / David Arenberg -- Age and animal behavior / Leonard F. Jakubczak -- Psychophysiological studies of aging / Larry W. Thompson & Gail R. Marsh -- Developmental processes and aging / K. Warner Schaie -- Adult development of intellectual performance: description, explanation, and modification / Paul B. Baltes & Gisela V. Labouvie -- A biobehavioral approach to intellectual changes with aging / Lissy F. Jarvik & Donna Cohen -- Social stress and adaptation: toward a life-course perspective / Marjorie Fiske Lowenthal & David Chiriboga -- Personality change in late life: a developmental perspective / Bernice L. Neugarten -- Clinical psychology? / M. Powell Lawton -- A broad clinical assessment of psychopathology in the aged / Barry J. Gurland -- Psychosocial treatment of the aged / Leonard E. Gottesman, Carole E. Quarterman, & Gordon M. Cohn -- Patterns of use of psychiatric facilities by the aged: past, present, and future / Morton Kramer, Carl A. Taube, & Richard W. Redick -- Community mental health and other health services for the aged / Ivan N. Mensh -- Attitudes toward aging: a critical examination of recent literature and implications for future research / Ruth Bennett & Judith Eckman -- Social roles, work, leisure, and education / Robert J. Havighurst -- Ecology and the aging process / M. Powell Lawton & Lucille Nahemow -- The aged in an affluent economy / Burkhard Strümpel -- Loving, dying, and other gerontologic addenda / Robert J. Kastenbaum. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
This book contains a series of papers covering the major areas of the psychology of aging. The papers are organized into five categories: (a) foundations of gerontology, (b) clinical psychology, (c) experimental psychology, (d) developmental aspects of aging, and (e) social aspects of aging. The purpose of the book is to serve as a sourcebook for academic and research workers in the field. This volume represents the state of psychological knowledge and the key issues in the psychology of aging at the close of 1971. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved). |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Aging.
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Older people -- Psychology.
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Adulthood.
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Aging.
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Aged -- psychology.
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Adult.
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Adulthood. (OCoLC)fst00797400
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Aging. (OCoLC)fst00800293
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Older people -- Psychology.
(OCoLC)fst01199124
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| Added Author |
Eisdorfer, Carl.
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Lawton, M. Powell (Mortimer Powell), 1923-2001.
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