| Handbook of Aging and Mental Health: An Integrative Approach 1998 Edition Contributor(s): Lomranz, Jacob (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0306457504 ISBN-13: 9780306457500 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $274.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1998 Annotation: This comprehensive resource responds to a growing need for theory and multidisciplinary integrative research in adult and gerontological health. Handbook of Aging and Mental Healthbrings together, for the first time, diverse strategies and methodologies as well as theoretical formulations involving psychodynamic, behavioral, psychosocial, and biological systems as they relate to aging and health. Forward-thinking in his approach, Lomranz provides the mental health, adult developmental, and geriatric professions with a single reference source that covers theory construction, empirical research, treatment, and multidisciplinary program development. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Geriatrics - Medical | Mental Health - Medical | Psychiatry - General |
| Dewey: 618.976 |
| LCCN: 98029824 |
| Series: The Springer Adult Development and Aging |
| Physical Information: 10.27" H x 1.39" W x 7.33" (2.94 lbs) 539 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: De cibo quod superest nobis sufficit; oportet gratias agere. Some elders have accepted this proposition, although seldom with enthu- siasm. Gerontologists also have been burdened with the adage: "Leftovers are good enough for us, and we should be grateful for them." I remember how a clerk tried to palm off astale and cheap cigar to her octogenarian customer. He knew better and carne away with a far superior smoke. The clerk fumed, "What does he need a good cigar for? Who is he to be particular " In this and in many other ways, elders often have labored under the sociocultural expectation that they should be well content with whatever scraps and shmattes happen to come their way. Gerontologists can identify with this situation. The systematic study of aging and the aged was a new enterprise at the midpoint of this century, but the concepts and methods were pretty much limited to those already on hand. What biological and sociobehavioral scientists had been doing for years was simply extended to the newly annexed territory. This as not only a convenient but also a cost-effective strategy. Data accumulated more rapidly by remaining within familiar frarnes of reference and relying on farniliar designs and mea- sures. The new gerontologists soon harvested a promising crop of descriptive findings. Within a decade after the establishment of the Gerontological Society of America (1947), it was possible to discern the outlines of a valuable new field of knowledge. |