Chapter Questions
How do definitions of mental health vary with age?
What are the implications of adopting a multidimensional model for interpreting and diagnosing mental disorders?
What are the five axes of DSM-IV?
Why is ethnicity an important consideration in understanding mental health?
How does the rate of depression vary with age?
What symptoms are associated with depression? How do they vary with age?
What biological causes of depression have been offered?
How is loss associated with depression?
What treatments of depression have been developed? How well do they work with older adults?
What symptoms are associated with anxiety disorders?
How are anxiety disorders treated?
What are personality disorders? How can they be categorized?
What evidence is there about changes in symptoms with age and time in personality disorders?
What are psychoses? What are their major symptoms?
What treatments are most effective for schizophrenia?
What is the difference between reversible and irreversible dementia?
What is delirium? What causes it?
What is Alzheimer's disease? How is it diagnosed?
What causes Alzheimer's disease? What interventions are available?
What other types of dementia have been identified? What are their characteristics?
What happens when people care for dementia victims at home?
What is family therapy? How does it differ from individual psychotherapy?
What issues are typically dealt with in family therapy? How are they addressed?
What are the main therapies used with institutionalized elderly?
What evidence is there that any of these techniques are effective?