Berman Jacqueline. Depressed Older Adults Education and Screening

Springer, 2011. — 250 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8261-7102-3, E-book ISBN: 978-0-8261-7103-0.Late life depression has become increasingly prevalent among older adults. This book presents guidelines to help enable aging and social service programs to establish a mental health education and screening program focused on late-life depression.From the Back Cover
"Designated a Doody's Core Title!
""This volume is one of the best practice-oriented books on mental health and aging that I have read. I hope that the coming years will see substantive developments in outreach to depressed older adults. This book lays a solid and credible foundation for these efforts.""
"--PsycCRITIQUES"Late life depression has become increasingly prevalent among older adults. This book presents guidelines to help enable aging and social service programs to establish a mental health education and screening program focused on late-life depression. This 2-time award-winning model presented in this book offers a practical and culturally-sensitiveapproach to mental health education which can be adapted by service programs seeking to identify clinical depression among their older adult clientele.Additionally, this program offers professionals serving older adults an opportunity to increase their knowledge about clinical depression among older adults; develop the skills necessary to identify the signs of clinical depression and suicidal ideation; and create long-standing, collaborative relationships across the professional disciplines of aging, social services, medical and mental health services. Older adults who participate in this program are able to:increase their awareness of the role of mental health in their overall quality of life
identify both long-standing and newly emergent symptoms of clinical depression, a serious mental health condition
connect to treatment providers within their own communitiesJacquelin Berman, Ph.D., MSW is Director of Research, at the New York City Department for the Aging and Adjunct Professor, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service. Her publications have appeared in the Journal of Gerontological Social Work, and the Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect; additional publications through the National Institute of Health and New York City Department of Ageing venues; multiple presentations at ASA and GSA. She is a chapter author of two Springer titles, TO GRANDMOTHERS HOUSE WE GO AND STAY (2000), and SERVING MENTALLY ILL OFFENDERS (2002).Lisa M. Furst, LMSW also achieved a Master degree in Public Health, and a certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. She is the Director of Education, Center for Policy, Advocacy and Education, and the Director of Geriatric Training and Technical Assistance Center at the Mental Health Association of New York City. She has collaborated with Dr. Berman in the development and implementation of this award-winning screening and education model against which this book is based.