Title: Depression and aging :
Authors: Breslau, Lawrence D.; Haug, Marie R.
Date: 1983
Publisher: Springer Pub. Co.,
Physical description: xix, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: R
Contents: Problems in the definition and diagnosis of depression in the elderly /Gerlad L. Klerman -- Depression in the elderly: clinical criteria / Andrew E. Skodol, Robert L. Spitzer -- Epidemiology of depression in late life / Dan Blazer -- Mental health and the minority elderly / John F. Santos, Richard W. Hubbard, John L. McIntosh -- Depression and the elderly: a psychoanalyitic perspective / David Blau -- Biological and genetic aspects of depression in the elderly / John M. Davis, Nancy L. Segal, Gottfried K. Spring -- Impact of immediate life situations on depression: illnesses and losses / Lissy F. Jarvik -- Social contexts of depression / Morton A. Lieberman -- Psychotherapy in the elderly / Martin A. Berezin -- Pharmacological treatment of depression in aged persons / Leo E. Hollister -- Role of the psychotherapist within the primary health care model / Madeline A. Naegle -- Cognitive therapy for depression in the elderly: a promising model for treatment and research / Dolores Gallagher, Larry W. Thompson -- Depression in the elderly: use of external support systems / Milton Greenblatt, Ching-piao Chien -- Some social costs to primary group helpers of aged depressives / Eugene Litwak, Barbara Kail -- Depression, disability, and demise in older people / Adrian M. Ostfeld -- Effects of depression on individual social functioning in the elderly / Barry J. Gurland, Laura L. Dean, Peter S. Cross -- some elements in an integrative model of depression in the aged / Lawrence Breslau, Marie Haug.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Depression, Mental.; Geriatric psychiatry.