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Making evidence-based psychological treatments work with older adults /
"Evidence-based practice (EBP) is here to stay. We make this proclamation despite the controversy that has attended this concept. Psychology is, after all, an evidence-based discipline, and we should expect nothing less from the applied arms of our field. In this book, we undertake the daunting...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
American Psychological Association,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Evidence-based practice (EBP) is here to stay. We make this proclamation despite the controversy that has attended this concept. Psychology is, after all, an evidence-based discipline, and we should expect nothing less from the applied arms of our field. In this book, we undertake the daunting task of summarizing the evidence base for psychological treatments as used with a particular segment of the population: older adults. Older adults comprise a substantial and rising portion of the populace, and thus it is important that we bring the best available knowledge to bear on the often complex health and behavioral problems presented by older people. This book is a continuation of efforts undertaken by the Society of Clinical Geropsychology of the American Psychological Association (APA) to provide scholars, practitioners, consumers, and policymakers information on practices that have been systematically evaluated. This book is an effort to provide information on EBTs to practitioners who work with older adults. We would like to provide an overview of the methods the original task force used to identify EBTs so that this information will not need to be repeated in each of the chapters that follow. Five teams were assembled to review the literature on psychological treatments for anxiety, depression, insomnia, memory, disruptive behaviors in dementia, and caregiver distress. These areas were considered the most likely to have received sufficient scientific attention to warrant review; moreover, these are problems that are of significance to older adults and those who serve them. Review teams used a coding manual developed by Weisz and Hawley (2001) for a wider effort to identify EBTs by APA's Society of Clinical Psychology. This manual provided guidance on determining what articles to include in the reviews and decisional rules on whether a treatment should be considered beneficial. In a nutshell, for a treatment to be considered evidence based there needed to be two controlled studies in which the treatment was shown to be significantly better than a control condition"--Chapter. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Notas: | Includes index. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 295 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781433811579 143381157X 9781433811586 1433811588 |