Social Work Practice with the Aged

Catalog description

Designed for students specializing in practice with the aged and their families. Examines normative and pathological aging personality. Emphasis is placed on the development of specialized knowledge and skills for assessment, intervention, and evaluation of a variety of issues and needs common in later life. Discussions on the applicability of certain interventions with the older adult and the family will be presented along with ethno-cultural and gender considerations.