Making evidence-based psychological treatments work with older adults / edited by Forrest Scogin and Avani Shah.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scogin, Forrest Ray.

Shah, Avani.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy for older people.

Older people--Counseling of.

Older people.

Older people--Psychology.

Psychotherapy.

Aged--psychology.

Medical Subjects:

Psychotherapy.

Aged--psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

APA PsycBOOKS.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2012.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

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).

Contents:

Contributors

List of figures and tables

List of appendices

Introduction to evidence-based practice with 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

Providing 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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2012. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2012 dcunns

Other Format:

Original

ISBN:

9781433811579

143381157X

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