Title: Mental health and aging : programs and evaluations /
Authors: Smyer, Michael A.; Gatz, Margaret.
Publisher: Sage Publications,
Year: 1983
Subjects: Aged; Community Mental Health Services; Older people Mental health services.; Community mental health services.; United States; United States
Abstract: "Researchers describe effective mental health programmes for the aged, which are designed both for traditional settings and for more innovative circumstances. They describe and evaluate ways to help chronic and acute mental disorders, to provide preventative measures that concentrate on such factors as work or family, and finally ways to help train mental health workers. Each paper presents a clear rationale and conceptual foundation for the programme, describes the evaluation research designed to test it, and the results of that evaluation. The result is an intelligible presentation of a variety of programmes"--Publisher description.
Contents: Assessing a mobile outreach team / Bob Knight -- Community mental health program: evaluating outcomes / Rachel A. Pruchno, Phillip C. Boswell, David S. Wolff, Martin V. Faletti -- Day treatment program evaluation / Ron W. Eskew, Richard E. Sexton, Sandra E. Tars, Frances M. Wilcox -- Skills training for community living / Louis A. Penner, David A. Eberly, Roger L. Patterson -- Case management in nursing homes / Richard B. Rogers, Bennett S. Gurian -- Criteria for effective crisis intervention / Keren Wilson, Richard Schultz -- Empowering older job seekers via the job club / Denis Gray -- Companion animals program / Dan Lago, Cathleen M. Connell, Barbara Knight -- Creating partnerships with family caretakers / Carl I. Brahce -- Providing support for home care givers / V. Katherine Gray -- Altering the design of a nursing home / Leonard A. Jason, Susan Smetak -- Volunteering: helping yourself or helping others / Charles J. Fogelman, James C. Roberts, Mary E. Dunbar -- Absenteeism, turnover, and an inservice program / Edward J. Pavur, Peggy Collins Smith -- Training in mental health outreach / John F. Santos, David C. Burdick, Richard W. Hubbard, Mary Alice Santos -- Implementing program evaluation: a field experiment / Donald D. Davis -- Training professionals in aging and mental health / Linner W. Griffin, Leonard E. Gottesman.