Handbook of Aging and Mental Health

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Introduction: Toward Theories in Mental Health and Aging.
• I. Well-Being, Adjustment, and Growth Behaviors in Later Life.
• 1. Declarative and Differential Aspects of Subjective Well-Being and Its Implications for Mental Health in Later Life.
• 2. Control: Cognitive and Motivational Implications.
• 3. Resilience in Adulthood and Later Life: Defining Features and Dynamic Processes.
• II. Stress, Coping, and Mental Health.
• 4. Toward a Developmentally Informed Theory of Mental Disorder in Older Adults.
• 5. Conservation of Resources, Stress, and Aging: Why Do Some Slide and Some Spring?.
• 6. War Trauma and the Aged: An Israeli Perspective.
• 7. Toward a Temporal—Spatial Model of Cumulative Life Stress: Placing Late-Life Stress Effects in a Life-Course Perspective.
• III. The Adult Developing Self.
• 8. The Double Voice of the Third Age: Splitting the Speaking Self as an Adaptive Strategy in Later Life.
• 9. Epistemology, Expectation, and Aging: A Developmental Analysis of the Gerontological Curriculum.
• 10. An Image of Aging and the Concept of Aintegration: Coping and Mental Health Implications.
• IV. Psychodynamics and Psychopathology in Later Life.
• 11. Psychoanalysis, the Life Story, and Aging: Creating New Meanings within Narratives of Lived Experience.
• 12. The Psychoimmune System in Later Life: The Problem of the Late-Onset Disorders.
• 13. Uses of the Past in Adult Psychological Health: Objective, Historical, and Narrative Realities.
• V. The Family in Later Life.
• 14. Perspectives on the Family and Stress in Late Life.
• 15. A Frame of Reference for Guiding Research Regarding the Relationship between Adult Attachment and Mental Health in Aging Families.
• 16. Multigenerational Families and Mental Illness in Late Life.
• 17. Cross-Cultural Perspective on Attitudes toward FamilyResponsibility and Well-Being in Later Years.
• VI. Memory and Dementia.
• 18. The Significance of Memory Complaints in Later Life: Methodological and Theoretical Considerations.
• 19. Age-Related Cognitive Decline and the Dementia Threshold.
• 20. Education and Dementia.
• VII. Depression and Aging.
• 21. Depression as a Pivotal Component in Secondary Aging: Opportunities for Research, Treatment, and Prevention.
• 22. The Variability of Depression in Old Age: Narrative as an Integrative Construct.
• 23. Aging and Behavioral Medicine: A Triaxial Model.
• Epilogue: Future Perspectives.