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This provocative volume guides practitioners and future practitioners alike to use strengths-based interventions in helping older adults to help themselves and improve their quality of life by reinforcing and valuing their age, wisdom, and experiences. This book’s renowned authors emphasize an extremely practical, strengths-based, multidisciplinary—social, physical, psychological, and spiritual—approach to therapy with older adults, and an abundance of detailed case studies shows you how it can be applied. This is the textbook for students in undergraduate, graduate, or certificate programs in social work, gerontology, psychology/psychotherapy, geropsychiatry, counseling, and marital and family therapy. Plus, providers of mental health care, pastoral counseling, care/case management, and allied health care providers will find inspiration and guidance for working with today’s burgeoning population of elders.

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I highly recommend this book. The topics are upbeat, realistic, practical, and, most of all, hopeful that aging is not the end of life but a process ... infinitely useful and helpful.

I highly recommend this book. The topics are upbeat, realistic, practical, and, most of all, hopeful that aging is not the end of life but a process ... infinitely useful and helpful. Mental Wellness in Aging is a brilliant contribution to the field ... an ideal textbook ... It could be read and used with profit by facilities that care for demented persons and by community-based agencies which provide care for older persons and their families. --David O. Staats, M.D., Associate Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Science Long-Term Care and Assisted Living Professional and Technical Advisory Committee, JCAHO (01/01/2001) -Mental Wellness in Aging is a brilliant contribution to the field ... an ideal textbook ... It could be read and used with profit by facilities that care for demented persons and by community-based agencies which provide care for older persons and their families.---David O. Staats, M.D., Associate Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Science-Long-Term Care and Assisted Living Professional and Technical Advisory Committee, JCAHO- (01/01/2001)

Mental Wellness in Aging is a brilliant contribution to the field ... an ideal textbook ... It could be read and used with profit by facilities that care for demented persons and by community-based agencies which provide care for older persons and their families. -- (01/01/2001) . . .a brilliant synthesis of the best that contemporary psychology and gerontology has to offer . . . written by first-rate authors in a clear and inviting style. . .This book would make an excellent textbook for trainees in many disciplines. -- (01/01/2001) Each chapter provides rich food for thought regarding the understanding and treatment of mental health issues in later life. Students and new professionals would find that the material presented is a hearty supplement to clinical training with older adults. -- (01/01/2001) .. .a wonderful compilation of articles on healthy living as we grow older--a must-have for your nightstand. -- (01/01/2001) One of the few books to approach mental health and healthcare for elders from a strengths-based perspective, which highlights a person's positive attributes and moves away from disease or pathology views of aging. -- (01/01/2001)

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Judith L. Ronch, Ph.D., is Executive Clinical Director and Founder of LifeSpan DevelopMental Systems, an organization that has established numerous creative, interdisciplinary clinical and training programs to meet the mental health needs of older adults in various parts of the United States. Dr. Ronch consults with the New York State Department of Health on person-centered care for people with Alzheimer's disease; in nursing homes, assisted living, and adult care facilities. Prior to this position he served on the allied health services staff of the Department of Internal Medicine at Vassar Brothers Hospital in Poughkeepsie, New York, and as Director of the Four Winds Geriatric Service at the Four Winds Hospital in Katonah, New York. Dr Ronch, Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Gerontological Institute, State University of New York in New Paltz, has served on numerous other boards and committees including the Dementia Advisory committee of the New York State Department of Health. Dr. Ronch is former director of the Brookdale Center on Aging at Hunter College of the City University of New York. He has written or contributed to numerous books devoted to issues of aging and strengths-based gerontological approaches, including The Counseling Sourcebook (edited with Van Ornum & Stilwell, Crossroad Publishing Company, 1994) and Alzheimer's Disease: A Practical Guide for Those Who Help Others (Crossroad-Continuum, 1989). In addition, he has published in various journals including Counseling the Aging and Their Families, American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, Nursing Home Economics, and American Journal of Alzheimer's Care and Research. Joseph A. Goldfield, M.S.W., received his master's of social work from the University of California at Berkeley. For the past 15 years he has been a nationally recognized lecturer and teacher of strengths-based approaches to psychotherapy. He remains a private practice in New York City, where he also provides consultation on strengths-based interventions to agencies serving aging clients. A faculty member of the Brookdale Center on Aging at Hunter College of the City University of New York, Mr. Goldfield also serves as an advisor to various behavioral managed care companies. As an experienced disaster/trauma counselor, Mr. Goldfield was extensively involved in the aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

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