Handbook of aging and mental health : an integrative approach /

This comprehensive resource responds to a growing need for theory and multidisciplinary integrative research in adult and gerontological health. Handbook of Aging and Mental Healthbrings together, for the first time, diverse strategies and methodologies as well as theoretical formulations involving...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Lomrants, Yaʻaḳov
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Plenum Press, [1998]
Series:Plenum series in adult development and aging.
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Table of Contents:
  • Toward theories in mental health and aging / Jacob Lomranz
  • Declarative and differential aspects of subjective well-being and its implications for mental health in later life / Dov Shmotkin
  • Control : cognitive and motivational implications / Lawrence C. Perlmuter and Angela S. Eads
  • Resilience in adulthood and later life : defining features and dynamic processes / Carol D. Ryff, Burton Singer, Gayle Dienberg Love and Marilyn J. Essex
  • Toward a developmentally informed theory of mental disorder in older adults / Margaret Gatz
  • Conservation of resources, stress, and aging : why do some slide and some spring? / Stevan E. Hobfoll and Jennifer D. Wells
  • War trauma and the aged : an Israeli perspective / Zahava Solomon and Karni Ginzburg
  • Toward a temporal-spatial model of cumulative life stress : placing late-life stress effects in a life-course perspective / Boaz Kahana and Eva Kahana
  • The double voice of the third age : splitting the speaking self as an adaptive strategy in later life / Haim Hazan
  • Epistemology, expectation, and aging : a developmental analysis of the gerontological curriculum / Robert Kegan
  • An image of aging and the concept of aintegration : coping and mental health implications / Jacob Lomranz
  • Psychoanalysis, the life story, and aging : creating new meanings within narratives of lived experience / Bertram J. Cohler
  • The psychoimmune system in later life : the problem of late-onset disorders / David Gutmann
  • Uses of the past in adult psychological health : objective, historical, and narrative realities / Harvey Peskin
  • Perspectives on the family and stress in late life / Leonard I. Pearlin and Marilyn M. Skaff
  • A frame of reference for guiding research regarding the relationship between adult attachment and mental health in aging families / Victor G. Cicirelli
  • Multigenerational families and mental illness in late life / Morton A. Lieberman
  • Cross-cultural perspective on attitudes toward family responsibility and well-being in later years / Catherine B. Silver
  • The significance of memory complaints in later life : methodological and theoretical considerations / George Niederehe
  • Age-related cognitive decline and the dementia threshold / Friedel M. Reischies
  • Education and dementia / A.D. Korczyn, Esther Kahana, and Robert P. Friedland
  • Depression as a pivotal component in secondary aging : opportunities for research, treatment, and prevention / Ira R. Katz
  • The variability of depression in old age : narrative as an integrative construct / Keith G. Meador and Dan G. Blazer
  • Aging and behavioral medicine : a triaxial model / David I. Mostofsky
  • Future perspectives / Jacob Lomranz.