The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Geropsychology

Nancy A. Pachana, PhD is Professor of Clinical Psychology and co-director of the Ageing Mind Initiative at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Dr. Pachana's research and clinical work focuses broadly in the area of geriatric mental health, particularly late-life anxiety disorders. She co-developed the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI), a published short self-report inventory in wide clinical and research use globally, and translated into over two dozen languages. Her other research interests include novel empirical interventions in residential aged care and for caregivers, measurement of cognitive decline, and general health and well-being in later life. She has published 160+ original articles in peer-reviewed international journals, including 23 book chapters, and 1 authored and 3 edited books. Dr. Pachana mentors graduate and undergraduate student research and teaches courses on clinical geropsychology and leadership and clinical skills at her university. Professor Laidlaw qualified as a clinical psychologist in 1995. In 1999 he was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship and travelled to the US to meet experts in CBT. From 1999 to 2000 he was invited to spend a year at University of Pennsylvania (PENN) in Philadelphia with Aaron T. Beck. In 2006 he completed his PhD part-time while working academically and clinically. Ken has always maintained a strong clinical commitment in the past and was professional lead for an older adults service in Edinburgh prior to his appointment at UEA. He was the Principal Investigator on the first UK RCT of CBT for late Life depression published in 2008. His manual for this trial has subsequently been used in other clinical trials. He also led the development of the creation of a cross-cultural Attitudes to Ageing Questionnaire (AAQ), that was pilot and field trialled in 20 countries worldwide. His conceptualization framework for CBT with older people is part of the IAPT curriculum materials for HI IAPT workers.

1. Perspectives on Clinical Geropsychology ; 2. Demographics of Mental Health and Ageing: An update ; 3. Longitudinal Studies and Clinical Geropsychology ; 4. Meta-analyses in Clinical Geropsychology ; 5. Successful development and Aging ; 6. Social capital and gender ; 7. Cognitive development in aging ; 8. Transitions in Later Life ; 9. Interviewing Older People ; 10. Psychological Assessment Strategies ; 11. Assessing trajectories of cognitive change over time in later life ; 12. International Perspectives on Capacity Assessment ; 13. Suicidal Ideation in Later Life ; 14. Clinical evaluation and intervention methods ; 15. Functional sequelae of cognitive declines in later life ; 16. Understanding the Environment of Long-term Care ; 17. Advanced Illness and the End of Life ; 18. Loneliness and Disability in Later life ; 19. Neuropsychiatric Approaches to Working with Older People ; 20. Late-Life Depression ; 21. Physical co-morbidity with mood disorders ; 22. Late-life Anxiety ; 23. Psychosis in Older Adults ; 24. Personality Disorders ; 25. Late Life Insomnia ; 26. Substance Abuse ; 27. Elder Abuse: A global epidemic ; 28. Life Risks and Cognitive Health ; 29. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Approaches ; 30. Interpersonal Psychotherapy ; 31. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Older People ; 32. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Caregivers ; 33. Reminiscence Therapy Approaches ; 34. Cognitive Analytic Therapy Approaches ; 35. Family Therapy with Older Adults ; 36. Interprofessional Geriatric Healthcare: Competencies and Resources for Teamwork ; 37. CBT Approaches to Dealing with Challenging Behaviors in Dementia ; 38. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Aging: Considerations for interventions ; 39. Caring for Caregivers of a Person with Dementia ; 40. Bereavement and Grief in Later Life ; 41. Treating mood disorders using combined psychotherapy and medication ; 42. Psychological approaches to pain management with cognitively impaired older adults ; 43. New Horizons: Psychological Interventions in Primary Care Settings ; 44. Positive aging: New horizons for older adults ; 45. Barriers to Accessing Psychological Services for Older Adults ; 46. Seniors' online communities and well-being in later life ; 47. Portable Interactive Technology in Rehabilitation Services ; 48. Use of Virtual Reality Technologies in Psychotherapy ; 49. Exercise and Health Promotion for Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment ; 50. Rising geropsychology practice in China ; 51. Why we need an international clinical geropsychology