Aging And Mental Health: Positive Psychosocial And Biomedical Approaches; Author: Butler, Robert N.; Author: With Sunderland, Trey; Hardback; Book

Author: Butler, Robert N.; Author: With Sunderland, Trey
Edition #5; Hardback; Book
608 pages
Published: February 1998
Pearson Higher Education
ISBN: 0205193366
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This text is extremely well-respected in social work and related disciplines for its comprehensive coverage of the aging process and its effects on mental health. Dr. Robert Butler is one of the nation's leading experts on the aging process; he has been director of the National Institute on Aging and has worked with national commissions and task forces on mental health and aging.Thistext sets out the nature and problems of old age, including the position of older people in their families, and then explores some common emotional problems and psychiatric disorders that can affect the elderly. Comprehensive and authoritative coverage of the process of aging, issues of mental health and aging, and the evaluation, treatment, and prevention of some common effects of aging. SpecificProvides coverage of the ageing process and its effects on mental health. This text sets out the nature and problems of old age, including the problems of older people in their families, and explores some of the common emotional problems and psychiatric disorders which affect the elderly.