Mental Health Practice in Geriatric Health Care Settings

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Brink, T.L.; Lichtenberg, Peter A

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Mental Health Practice in Geriatric Health Care Settings emphasizes the major research and clinical findings realized in five years of research on mental health issues in older urban medical patients, many of whom represent minority groups. Chapters cover the high comorbidity of health and mental health problems in geriatric patients, neuropsychological (or cognitive) assessment, depression, alcohol abuse in health care settings, emerging behavioral medicine issues, and family relations and their tie to medical settings. As a practitioner, you'll find this book helps your practice by representing the first assessment and treatment techniques normed and validated on minority elderly. If you're a professional working in the mental health system, you'll see how to expand your services to health care markets.

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Contents
Foreword (Jeffrey T. Barth)

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The links Between Physical and Mental Health
• Chapter 1. Overview
• Chapter 2. Influence of Cognition on Health Outcomes
• Chapter 3. The Role of Depression in Geriatric Health Outcomes
• Chapter 4. Perspectives on Cognition in Normal Elderly and in Those with Alzheimer s Disease
• Chapter 5. The Normative Studies Research Project Test Battery
• Chapter 6. Utilizing the NSRP Test Battery
• Chapter 7. Behavioral Treatment of Geriatric Depression in Health Care Settings
• Chapter 8. Detection and Treatment of Alcohol Abuse
• Chapter 9. Emerging Areas in Geriatric Health Care Practice
• Chapter 10. Mental Health Practitioners Survival of Health Care Changes
• References
• Index