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1 online resource (xii, 295 pages) |
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Includes index. |
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Contributors -- List of figures and tables -- List of appendices -- Introduction to evidence-based psychological treatments for older adults / Forrest Scogin and Avani Shah -- Evidence-based psychological treatments for geriatric anxiety / Shiva G. Ghaed, Catherine R. Ayers, and Julie Loebach Wetherell -- Evidence-based treatments for insomnia in older adults / Haley R. Dillon, Ryan G. Wetzler, and Kenneth I. Lichstein -- Evidence-based psychological treatments for geriatric depression / Avani Shah, Forrest Scogin, and Mark Floyd -- Evidence-based psychological treatments for improving memory function among older adults / George W. Rebok, Jeanine M. Parisi, Alden L. Gross, Adam P. Spira, Jean Ko, Quincy M. Samus, Jane S. Saczynski, Steve Koh, and Ronald E. Holtzman -- Evidence-based treatments for behavioral disturbances in long-term care / Kim J. Curyto, Kelly Trevino, Suzann Ogland-Hand, and Peter Lichtenberg -- Evidence-based psychological treatments for distress in family caregivers of older adults / David W. Coon, Maureen Keaveny, Irene Valverde, Shukofeh Dadvar, and Dolores Gallagher-Thompson -- Index -- About the editors. |
| Summary |
"Evidence-based practice (EBP) is here to stay. We make this proclamation despite the controversy that has attended this concept. Psychology is, after all, an evidence-based discipline, and we should expect nothing less from the applied arms of our field. In this book, we undertake the daunting task of summarizing the evidence base for psychological treatments as used with a particular segment of the population: older adults. Older adults comprise a substantial and rising portion of the populace, and thus it is important that we bring the best available knowledge to bear on the often complex health and behavioral problems presented by older people. This book is a continuation of efforts undertaken by the Society of Clinical Geropsychology of the American Psychological Association (APA) to provide scholars, practitioners, consumers, and policymakers information on practices that have been systematically evaluated. This book is an effort to provide information on EBTs to practitioners who work with older adults. We would like to provide an overview of the methods the original task force used to identify EBTs so that this information will not need to be repeated in each of the chapters that follow. Five teams were assembled to review the literature on psychological treatments for anxiety, depression, insomnia, memory, disruptive behaviors in dementia, and caregiver distress. These areas were considered the most likely to have received sufficient scientific attention to warrant review; moreover, these are problems that are of significance to older adults and those who serve them. Review teams used a coding manual developed by Weisz and Hawley (2001) for a wider effort to identify EBTs by APA's Society of Clinical Psychology. This manual provided guidance on determining what articles to include in the reviews and decisional rules on whether a treatment should be considered beneficial. In a nutshell, for a treatment to be considered evidence based there needed to be two controlled studies in which the treatment was shown to be significantly better than a control condition"--Chapter. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved). |
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Also issued in print. |
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Description based on print version record. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Psychotherapy for older people.
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Older people -- Counseling of.
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Older people -- Psychology.
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Psychotherapy.
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Aged -- psychology.
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| Added Author |
Scogin, Forrest Ray.
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Shah, Avani.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Making evidence-based psychological treatments work with older adults. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2012 9781433811579 (DLC) 2012002596 (OCoLC)777663045 |
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