Comprehensive Assessment for Gerontology Professionals
New trends in mental healthcare practice and a rapid increase in the aged population are causing an explosion in the fields of clinical gerontology and geropsychology today.
Authoritative Guidelines and Tools
This comprehensive second edition handbook offers clinicians and graduate students clear guidelines and reliable tools for assessing general mental health, cognitive functioning, functional age, psychosocial health, comorbidity, behavior deficits, and more.
Empirical Review and Case Studies
Each chapter provides an empirical review of assessment instruments, assessment scales in their totality, a review of how these instruments are used with and adapted for different cultural groups, illustration of assessments through case studies, and information on how to utilize ongoing assessment in treatment and/or treatment planning.
Definitive Assessment Source
This combination of elements will make the volume the definitive assessment source for clinicians working with elderly patients.




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