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Psychology and the older adult : challenges for training in the 1980s : proceedings of the Conference on Training Psychologists for Work in Aging, Boulder, Colorado, June 14-18, 1981 / edited by John F. Santos and Gary R. VandenBos.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Conference on Training Psychologists for Work in Aging (1981 : Boulder, Colo.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Older people--Psychology--Study and teaching--Congresses.
- Older people.
- Aged--psychology.
- Older people--Psychology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Aged--psychology.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Other Title:
- APA PsycBOOKS.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, [1982]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- The task of this conference is to develop a set of policy recommendations to guide our discipline in the coming years as we strive to prepare psychologists to work with older people. It is rare for any discipline to have the opportunity to draw upon such immensely varied expertise as that gathered here this week to formalize such a statement. Seven major topics were addressed by about 100 participants in separate work groups of approximately 13-15 persons, made up of psychologists in general, geropsychologists, nonpsychology gerontologists, and consumers--including agency representatives, students, and elderly persons. The group topics included training; curriculum; continuing education, retraining, and in-service education; recruitment and retention; services and settings; psychosocial knowledge base; and biopsychological knowledge base. Over a 5-day period, the groups discussed their assigned topics with the goal of formulating recommendations that would address significant aspects of the topics and provide action plans by which the recommendations could be realized. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved)
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2004. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2004 dcunns.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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