Volume 1. History and Status of the Field and Perspectives on Aging; Vo
In two volumes, the APA Handbook of Clinical Geropsychology offers a well-balanced scientist-practitioner approach, with chapters that succinctly review empirical research across a broad range of areas and offer practical approaches for the application of theory to everyday practice with the aging population. The handbook reviews the history of ......
Black Older Adults in the Era of Black Lives Matter
The 41st volume of Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, "Black Older Adults in the Era of Black Lives Matter," reflects an important moment in the continuing development and maturation of research and scholarship on the lives of older Black Americans. The volume includes literature reviews and empirical analyses on a broad range of topics, ......
Men's Health and Aging: Contemporary Issues, Emerging Perspectives, and
Focuses on men's health and aging. Cutting-edge chapters discuss the different complex factors that can lead to advancing our understanding on older men's health. The volume is organised in two sections: contemporary issues, and emerging perspectives about men's health and aging.
Newly revised and updated, this classic text examines the impact of social forces on the aging process. It considers aging from personal, family, community, societal, and global perspectives. This sixth edition reflects significant changes in the field of social gerontology.
Research documents that rural elders are poorer, live in less adequate housing, and have far fewer health and service options available to them than their urban counterparts, yet there is a critical lack of current and detailed information on the problems facing rural elders and on the professional practices that serve this population. This text ......
Takes an interdisciplinary look at cognitive aging - how it happens and how to study it. This book explores methods for measuring cognitive change, including how to study cohort effects. It also explores the social and psychological factors associated with cognitive aging.
In Ageing Well Frances Macnab shares his 4 P’s for flourishing while ageing: Plan, Purpose, Possibilities, and Pleasure. This easy to read guide to living your later years of life to the fullest is a thoughtful exploration for anyone experiencing this time of life themselves or for those caring for or with loved ones at this stage of life.
Results from the National Youth Survey Family Study
This book describes the complex relationships of different types of adolescent exposure to violence with diverse adult outcomes, including social statuses, mental health, substance use, violent victimization, and violence perpetration.
A Story to Explain ADHA and Tic Disorders/Tourette Syndrome
Meet Jaimie, a young boy with ADHD and a tic disorder called Tourette Syndrome. He's not being fidgety or naughty - he really can't help it! Jaime explains how he was diagnosed and what having tics and ADHD is like for him. He also shares how he has learnt to relieve his ADHD symptoms, minimise his tics, and how friends and adults can help at home ......