an integrative approach Lomrants, Yaʻaḳov. text bibliography nyu New York Plenum Press c1998 1998 monographic eng

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xix, 539 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Introduction: Toward Theories in Mental Health and Aging / Jacob Lomranz -- 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 / Dov Shmotkin. 2. Control: Cognitive and Motivational Implications / Lawrence C. Perlmuter and Angela S. Eads. 3. Resilience in Adulthood and Later Life: Defining Features and Dynamic Processes / Carol D. Ryff, Burton Singer and Gayle Dienberg Love [et al.] -- II. Stress, Coping, and Mental Health. 4. Toward a Developmentally Informed Theory of Mental Disorder in Older Adults / Margaret Gatz. 5. Conservation of Resources, Stress, and Aging: Why Do Some Slide and Some Spring? / Stevan E. Hobfoll and Jennifer D. Wells. 6. War Trauma and the Aged: An Israeli Perspective / Zahava Solomon and Karni Ginzburg. 7. Toward a Temporal-Spatial Model of Cumulative Life Stress: Placing Late-Life Stress Effects in a Life-Course Perspective / Boaz Kahana and Eva Kahana -- III. The Adult Developing Self. 8. The Double Voice of the Third Age: Splitting the Speaking Self as an Adaptive Strategy in Later Life / Haim Hazan. 9. Epistemology, Expectation, and Aging: A Developmental Analysis of the Gerontological Curriculum / Robert Kegan. 10. An Image of Aging and the Concept of Aintegration: Coping and Mental Health Implications / Jacob Lomranz -- IV. Psychodynamics and Psychopathology in Later Life. 11. Psychoanalysis, the Life Story, and Aging: Creating New Meanings within Narratives of Lived Experience / Bertram J. Cohler. 12. The Psychoimmune System in Later Life: The Problem of the Late-Onset Disorders / David Gutmann. 13. Uses of the Past in Adult Psychological Health: Objective, Historical, and Narrative Realities / Harvey Peskin -- V. The Family in Later Life. 14. Perspectives on the Family and Stress in Late Life / Leonard I. Pearlin and Marilyn M. Skaff. 15. A Frame of Reference for Guiding Research Regarding the Relationship between Adult Attachment and Mental Health in Aging Families / Victor G. Cicirelli. 16. Multigenerational Families and Mental Illness in Late Life / Morton A. Lieberman. 17. Cross-Cultural Perspective on Attitudes toward Family Responsibility and Well-Being in Later Years / Catherine B. Silver -- VI. Memory and Dementia. 18. The Significance of Memory Complaints in Later Life: Methodological and Theoretical Considerations / George Niederehe. 19. Age-Related Cognitive Decline and the Dementia Threshold / Friedel M. Reischies. 20. Education and Dementia / A. D. Korczyn, Esther Kahana and Robert P. Friedland -- VII. Depression and Aging. 21. Depression as a Pivotal Component in Secondary Aging: Opportunities for Research, Treatment, and Prevention / Ira R. Katz. 22. The Variability of Depression in Old Age: Narrative as an Integrative Construct / Keith G. Meador and Dan G. Blazer. 23. Aging and Behavioral Medicine: A Triaxial Model / David I. Mostofsky -- Epilogue: Future Perspectives / Jacob Lomranz. edited by Jacob Lomranz. Includes bibliographical references and index. Aging Psychological aspects Older people Psychology 618.97689 HAN 0306457504 (hardcover) 98029824 DLC 980616 20161212151828.0 2219138