Clinical Issues in Working with Older Adults
Synonyms
Rapport; Therapeutic relation
Definition
“Clinical issues” are the aspects that should be taken into consideration when performing clinical interventions with older adults. The term “clinical” is here used primarily for those professionals who work in behavioral health (i.e., nonsurgical, nonmedication), both at an assessments and intervention level, with older individuals.
Background
Don’t tell us, show us (Moreno’s Psychodrama Dictum)
The importance of giving attention to clinical issues in working with older adults has been well emphasized in the last years in emblematic articles (Knight 2004) and in psychological association professional practice guidelines. A representative example is the Guidelines for Psychological Practice With Older Adultsoriginally developed by the Division 12, Section II (Society of Clinical Geropsychology) and Division 20 (Adult Development and Aging) Interdivisional Task Force on Practice in Clinical Geropsychology and approved as an American...
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