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Aging and mental health
— positive psychosocial approaches | | Author(s) | Robert N Butler, Myrna I Lewis |
| Publisher | C V Mosby Company, St Louis, MS, 1977 |
| Pages | 365 pp |
| Keywords | Mental disorder ; Mental health [elderly] ; Psychiatric treatment ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This US textbook examines the nature and problems of old age: emotional problems, functional disorders, and organic brain disorders. Attention is given to evaluation, treatment and prevention of a wide range of mental health problems: living at home or having proper institutional care; psychotherapy and environmental therapy; drug and electroshock therapy. What constitutes healthy, successful old age, and the future of living to old age are also considered. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-930426063 |
| Classmark | E: D: LP: 7T |
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