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1 online resource : illustrations (some color) |
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Springer reference |
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Springer reference.
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Ageing in a Community Environment Study (ACES) -- Aging and Mental Health in a Longitudinal Study of Elderly Costa Ricans -- Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ALSA) -- Berlin Aging Studies (BASE and BASE-II) -- Blue zones -- Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging: A Platform for Psychogeriatric Research -- China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study -- Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Study -- Cognition -- Dynamic Analyses to Optimise Ageing (DYNOPTA) -- English Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSA) -- Five Coop Study -- Fordham Centenarian Study -- Georgia Centenarian Study -- Health and Retirement Study: A Longitudinal Data Resource for Psychologists -- Health in Centenarians -- Health Span: SG90 Study -- Health, Work and Retirement Longitudinal Study -- Heidelberg Centenarian Study -- Hongkong Centenarian Study -- IKARIA Study, Greece -- Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study on Adult Development and Aging (ILSE) -- Iowa Centenarian Study -- Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) -- Japan's population ageing, and description of JSTAR project and participants, specifically focusing on psychological wellbeing and life experiences -- Korean Centenarian Study: Comprehensive Approach for Human Longevity -- Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing (KLoSA) -- Life and Living in Advanced Age: A Cohort Study in New Zealand, Te Puawaitanga o Ngā Tapuwae Kia Ora Tonu (LiLACS NZ) -- Longevity Gene Study/Longenity Study -- Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam -- Mental Health in Centenarians -- New England Centenarian Study -- Okinawa Centenarian Study -- Oporto Centenarian Study -- Social Resources and Centenarians -- SONIC Study, Japan -- Supercentenarians -- Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) -- Swiss Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study on the Oldest Old (SWILSOO) -- Sydney Centenarian Study -- Tokyo Centenarian Study and Japan Semi-Supercentenarian Study -- Well-being in centenarians -- Activity Theory, Disengagement Theory, and Successful Aging -- Adaptive resources of the aging self: Assimilative and accommodative modes of coping -- Age and Time in Geropsychology -- Common Cause Theory in Aging -- Contextual Adult Life Span Theory for Adapting Psychotherapy (CALTAP) and Clinical Geropsychology -- Distance-to-Death Research in Geropsychology -- Emotional Development in Old Age -- History of Biomarkers in Geropsychology -- History of Clinical Geropsychology -- History of Cognitive Aging Research -- History of Cognitive Slowing Theory and Research -- History of Longitudinal Statistical Analyses -- History of Longitudinal Studies of Psychological Aging -- History of Research on Personality and Aging -- History of Sexual Orientation and Geropsychology -- Intersection of Philosophy and Psychology -- Life Management Through Selection, Optimization, and Compensation -- Life Span Developmental Psychology -- Life Span Developmental Psychopathology -- Motivational Theory of Lifespan Development -- Personality Trait Change in Old Age -- Plasticity of Aging -- Process and Systems Views of Aging and Memory -- Psychological Theories of Successful Aging -- Psychological Theories on Health and Aging -- Psychology of Longevity -- Resilience and Aging -- Second Generation Socio-emotional Selectivity Theories -- Self-Theories of the Aging Person -- Socio-emotional Selectivity Theory.-Stage Theories of Personality -- Stress and Coping Theory in Geropsychology -- Theories of Age Stereotyping and Views of Aging -- Theories of Environmental Influences on Aging and Behavior -- Theories of Grief and Bereavement -- Theories of Social Support and Aging -- Theories to Understand Stress and Coping in Caregivers -- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy -- Age-Related Hearing Loss -- Anxiety and Cognition -- Anxiety Disorders in Later Life -- Assisted Living -- Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia -- Behavioural analysis -- Bibliotherapy and Other Self-Administered Treatment -- Bipolar Disorder in Later Life -- Caregiving and Carer Stress -- Challenging Behavior -- Clinical Issues in Working with Older Adults -- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy -- Comorbidity -- Depression and Cognition -- Depression in Later Life -- Eating Disorders and Eating Disordered Behaviors -- Elder Abuse and Neglect Family Therapy -- Gerontechnology -- Home-Based Primary Care -- Horticultural Therapy -- Insomnia and Clinical Sleep Disturbance -- Interpersonal Psychotherapy -- Interprofessional Care -- Lifestyle Factors on depression -- Long-Term Care -- Mindfulness Approaches -- Music Therapy -- Narrative approaches with older adults -- Pain and Pain Management -- Palliative care -- Person-Centered Care and Dementia Care Mapping -- Personality Disorders -- Prison Populations -- Problem-Solving Therapy -- sychodynamic and Humanistic Approaches -- Psychological and Personality Testing -- Psychology and Politics PTSD and Trauma -- Reminiscence -- Remotivation Therapy -- Respite Care -- Restraint use in long term care -- Rumination -- Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders in Older Adults -- Small-scale homelike care in nursing homes -- Substance Use and Abuse -- Subsyndromal Psychiatric Disorders Suicide -- Telemental health -- Training Psychologists in Aging -- Worry in Later Life -- Advocacy with Older Adults -- Age Stereotyping and Discrimination -- Age, Self and Identity: Structure, Stability and Adaptive Function -- Age-friendly communities -- Age-Related Positivity Effect and its Implications for Social and Health Gerontology -- Ageing, inequalities and health -- Aging and Psychological Well-Being -- Aging and Quality of Life -- Altruism and Prosocial Behaviour -- Attitudes and self perceptions of ageing -- Cognitive Dissonance in Aging -- Communication with older adults -- Cross-cultural aging Disability and Ageing -- End of life care -- Filial Responsibility -- Grandparenthood and the Changing Nature of Social Relationships -- Housing Solutions for Older Adults -- Human and Civil Rights of Older People -- Intergenerational Relationships -- Late Life Transitions -- Leisure Activities in Later Life -- Loneliness and Social Embeddedness in Old Age -- Marriage and Divorce in Later Life -- Mental Health and Aging -- Migration and Aging -- Positive emotion processing -- Sexuality and Aging -- Social Cognition and Aging -- Social Connectedness and Health -- Social Exchange Theory and Aging -- Social Group Interventions for Older Adults -- Social Identity Change and Driving in Later Life -- Social Media and Aging -- Social Policies for Aging Societies -- Spirituality and religious participation in later life -- Strength and vulnerability integration -- Widowhood in late life -- Age and Intraindividual Variability -- Aging and Attention -- Aging and Driving -- Aging and Inhibition -- Aging and Semantic Memory -- Aging and Slowing of the Neuro-Motor System -- Aging/Memory: Dual Coding Theory -- Andropause: Understanding the Role of Male Hormones in the Aging Process -- Automaticity and Skill in Late Adulthood -- Behaviour Modification -- Brain Training Games -- Cognitive and Brain plasticity in Old Age -- Cognitive Changes, Normal and Age-Related -- Cognitive Compensation -- Cognitive Control and Self-Regulation -- Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging -- Cohort Effects -- Crystallized intelligence -- Decision Making -- Effects of Stress on Memory: Relevance for Human Aging -- Emotion-Cognition Interactions -- Ergonomics and demographics -- Event-Related Potentials -- Everyday Cognition -- Executive Functions Expertise -- Gender Differences in Memory and Cognition -- Individual Differences -- Intelligence and ageing -- Knowledge -- Language: Comprehension -- Language: Discourse Production and Communication -- Language: Naming -- Learning in Older Adults -- Memory: Autobiographical -- Memory: Episodic -- Memory: Implicit -- Memory: Procedural -- Memory: Training Methods and Benefits -- Memory:Rehabilitation -- Metacognition in Older Adulthood -- Physiological Effects |
| Summary |
This encyclopedia brings together key established and emerging research findings in geropsychology. It is a comprehensive coverage of the entire breadth of the field, giving readers access to all major subareas and illustrating their interconnections with other disciplines. Entries delve deep into key areas of geropsychology such as perception, cognition, clinical, organizational, health, social, experimental and neuropsychology. In addition to that, the encyclopedia covers related disciplines such as neuroscience, social science, population health, public policy issues pertaining to retirement, epidemiology and demography and medicine. Paying careful attention to research internationally, it cites English and non-English empirical literature from around the globe. This encyclopedia is relevant to a wide audience that include researchers, clinicians, students, policy makers and nongovernmental agencies |
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Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 9, 2017) |
| In |
Springer Nature Living Reference |
| Subject |
Geriatric psychiatry -- Encyclopedias
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Older people -- Mental health -- Encyclopedias
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Geriatric psychiatry.
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Geriatric Psychiatry
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Geriatric psychiatry
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Older people -- Mental health
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| Genre/Form |
encyclopedias.
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Encyclopedias
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Encyclopedias.
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Encyclopédies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Pachana, Nancy A., editor.
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| ISBN |
9789812870827 |
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9812870822 |
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9789812870834 |
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9812870830 |
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9812870814 |
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9789812870810 |
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9789812870803 |
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9812870806 |
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