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A practical guide for experienced therapists and students in clinical training, Psychotherapy With Older Adults is a blend of current gerontological theory, research and clinical experience with the elderly. Major themes include: the individuality of older adults; the need to focus on specific disorders rather than perceiving age as the problem; and a spirit of therapeutic optimism regarding the potential for growth and change in later life.

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• Gerontology for Psychotherapists
• The Contextual, Cohort-Based, Maturity/Specific Challenge Model
• Adaptations of Psychotherapy for Older Adults
• Building Rapport with the Older Client
• Transference and Countertransference with Older Clients
• Guidelines for Assessment in the Context of the Practice of Psychotherapy
• Grief Work with Older Adults
• Chronic Illness in Later Life
• Life Review in Psychotherapy with Older Adults
• Concluding Thoughts on Psychotherapy with Older Adults

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CHOICE Review

Knight (UCLA/USC Long-Term Gerontology Center) is a clinical psychologist with much experience working with the aged. This book is good-clear, informed, and interesting. Helpful in reassessing notions of aging, it will benefit readers who want to build a better conceptual system for understanding the phenomena. The book seems more of an introduction to psychotherapy with older adults than a thorough treatment of the topic. Many aspects are touched upon: for instance, there is a short section on the key elements in successful communication with the older person's physician, but there is no overview of what a completed psychotherapy might entail. There is an extensive list of references. Recommended to academic programs serving social work, but also to clinical and counseling psychology programs.-R.H. Dolliver, University of Missouri-Columbia

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Bob G. Knight, Ph.D., is the Merle H. Bensinger Professor of Gerontology, Psychology, and Counseling Psychology at the Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California, where he also serves as Director of the Tingstad Older Adult Counseling Center and faculty director of the Los Angeles Caregiver Resource Center. He is currently serving the Department of Psychology as Director of Clinical Training. His research interests include caregiving, emotion and aging, and mental health policy and aging, and he has published extensively in mental health and aging, including this book, Outreach with the Elderly (NYU Press, 1989), and Older Adults in Psychotherapy: Case Histories (Sage, 1992). He is the senior editor of Mental Health Services for Older Adults: Implications for Training & Practice in Geropsychology (1995), and a co-editor of A Guide to Psychotherapy & Aging: Effective Clinical Interventions in a Life-Stage Context (1996), both published by APA Books. Dr. Knight has been active in various professional organizations relating to psychology and aging. He served as President of Section II, Division 12 (Clinical Geropsychology) of the American Psychological Association in 1997. He is currently (2002-2003) President Elect of APA Division 20 (Adult Development and Aging), and he served as chair of the APA Committee in Aging in 2001. Dr. Knight received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Indiana University, Bloomington. His professional experience in working with older adults began while working at the Urban League of Madison County (IN) where he organized and served as first president of the Madison County Council on Aging in 1973.