CHAPTER 16 Psychopharmacological Interventions WHEN seeing younger adults, mental health practitioners often struggle to convince patients to take even a single medication as part of a treatment plan. Younger adults…
CHAPTER 18 Mental Health Treatment Planning TREATMENT plans can be understood as a regulatory requirement, one of the many chores of contemporary health care, or they can be understood as…
CHAPTER 15 Psychotherapeutic Interventions IN the past, mental health practitioners were taught that older patients could not participate in psychotherapy because they were too set in their ways to benefit,…
CHAPTER 14 Psychosocial Interventions Stefan is a 92-year-old man with major neurocognitive disorder due to Alzheimer’s disease, congestive heart failure with an ejection fraction of 20%, right hip fracture with…
CHAPTER 13 Psychoeducational Interventions Psychoeducation Classes Elise is a 68-year-old woman who was diagnosed in her early 20s with bipolar I disorder, hypertension, and poorly controlled diabetes. She has responded…
CHAPTER 12 Rating Scales and Alternative Diagnostic Systems THERE are many ways to describe and measure distress. For example, a person may speak of having an ataque de nervios, whereas…
CHAPTER 10 The Mental Status Examination A Psychiatric Glossary JUST as a physical examination commonly moves from head to toe, the mental status examination begins with an older adult’s outer…
CHAPTER 9 A Stepwise Approach to Differential Diagnosis A good interviewer should consider as many diagnoses as possible while investigating the nature of a person’s distress (Feinstein 1967). Although an…
CHAPTER 7 The DSM-5 Older Adult Diagnostic Interview IN Chapter 6, “The 30-Minute Older Adult Diagnostic Interview,” we outlined a diagnostic interview that includes questions to screen for each of…
