Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

What are the challenges facing gerontological social workers-today and in the near future? This book gives you an essential overview of the role, status, and potential of gerontological social work in aging societies around the world. Drawing on the expertise of leaders in the field, it identifies key policy and practice issues and suggests directions for the future. Here you'll find important perspectives on home health care, mental health, elder abuse, older workers' issues, and death and dying, as well as an examination of the policy and practice issues of utmost concern to social w

Social work with older people

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Social work with older people --- Gerontology. --- Older people.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Written by an expert in gerontological social work and curriculum development, this book provides a wealth of clinical information for social workers and other health care professionals who counsel older adults. It describes a strengths-based, empowerment approach to treatment that integrates theory, technique, advocacy, and social policy, and encompasses the tenets of human rights. The book's content has been tested in the classroom setting for a three-year period with advanced social work undergraduate and graduate students. The book examines various theories of aging including a contrast be

Social work with older people --- Older people --- Mental illness --- Mental health services --- Care

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Reminiscence is a valuable tool for the professional carer as well as those looking after a family member or friend. It enhances and enriches the care relationship, and benefits both the person being cared for and the carer. This fully-updated fourth edition is full of practical information on planning and running successful reminiscence work.

Reminiscing in old age --- Older people --- Social work with older people. --- Mentally ill older people. --- Recollection (Psychology) --- Therapeutic use. --- Psychology.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In this second edition of their classic volume, the authors present their elder abuse diagnosis and intervention model. This comprehensive model of detection, assessment, and intervention enables the practitioner first to identify the type of elder mistreatment, including physical, sexual, psychological, and financial. It then provides systematic and realistic interventions. This updated edition also includes information on legal interventions with suggestions on how the practitioner should act in the courtroom, give testimony, document findings, and prepare for legal involvement with the crim

Abused elderly --- Social work with older people --- Abused aged --- Abused older people --- Battered elderly --- Elderly, Abused --- Older people --- Services for --- Abuse of --- Battered older people --- Victims of crimes