Handbook on Ethnicity, Aging, and Mental Health

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This state-of-the-art and multi-disciplinary reference is the first to assess empirical research and conceptual frameworks for understanding the mental health needs and service use of the ethnic elderly in America. Leading scholars, researchers, and clinicians in gerontology, epidemiology, psychiatry, psychology, sociology, anthropology, nursing and social work appraise the varying approaches, the demographic characteristics, the needs, help-seeking and mental health services and their use, and caregiving mental health delivery issues for African Americans, American Indians, Asian and Pacific Islander Americans, and Hispanic/Latino Americans. The handbook considers such problems as Alzheimer's disease, depression and problems of coping, culturally specific psychosocial nursing care programmes, the role of culture and class in mental and physical co-morbidity among the elderly, and important life-course perspectives for specific groups. Students, teachers and professionals in many fields and settings should find this handbook a valuable resource and text.

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Because of its unique character including background data and current research finding, this text will be an important asset for both the clinician and the research investigator. This book is a very good buy.-Clinical Gerontologist
The multidisciplinary Handbook on Ethnicity, Aging, and Mental Health is a timely important contribution to understanding the mental health needs of the elderly, particularly the impact of ethnicity on aging and mental health. The book is useful for anyone involved in the delivery of mental health services to the elderly. It can provide background information for investigators in the area of aging and mental illness about some of the methodolgic issues that arise in the inclusion of different ethnic groups in clincial research.-Psychiatric Services
"Because of its unique character including background data and current research finding, this text will be an important asset for both the clinician and the research investigator. This book is a very good buy."-Clinical Gerontologist
"The multidisciplinary Handbook on Ethnicity, Aging, and Mental Health is a timely important contribution to understanding the mental health needs of the elderly, particularly the impact of ethnicity on aging and mental health. The book is useful for anyone involved in the delivery of mental health services to the elderly. It can provide background information for investigators in the area of aging and mental illness about some of the methodolgic issues that arise in the inclusion of different ethnic groups in clincial research."-Psychiatric Services

Author Bio

DEBORAH K. PADGETT, is Associate Professor at the School of Social Work, New York University. She received a doctorate in cultural anthropology in 1979 and completed post-doctoral work in stress and mental health at Columbia University in 1986. She served on the Editorial Board of The Gerontologist (1990-1994), and has written about ethnicity, aging, and mental health services. She is a former Associate Research Scientist in Columbia University's Department of Psychiatry and New York State Psychiatric Institute.