ABSTRACT

Enhance the intervention strategies you use in therapy with older adults and their families. This significant new book provides practitioners with information, insight, reference sources, and other valuable tools that will contribute to more effective intervention with the elderly and their families. Outstanding scholars have contributed original material that addresses the major issues in treating the elderly from the practitioner’s point of view; the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual concerns of the aged are examined in order to formulate a systemic and comprehensive treatment plan. Destined to become a classic in a challenging new area of psychotherapy, the unique Aging and Family Therapy promises to guide and inform practitioners who will be called upon to provide assistance to the increasing number of older adults who will be in need of mental health services.

chapter |11 pages

Aging and Family Therapy:

An Introduction

chapter |33 pages

Principles of Therapeutic Intervention with Elders and Their Families

with Elders and Their s. Nieto

chapter |9 pages

The Life Review: An Underutilized Strategy for Systemic Family Intervention

An Underutilized Strategy

chapter |60 pages

Caregiving and Aging:

Strategies for Support

chapter |29 pages

Roles of the Psychotherapist A Systems Approach of Independence

Family Financial Counseling: Prolongation

chapter |57 pages

The Burden of Insight

A Basis for Constructive Response

chapter |2 pages

Aging and Family Therapy: A Final Note