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On these pages, you will find information and links to various practice guidelines.
Increasingly, psychologists are encountering older adults and having to deal with various aging-related issues in the course of their clinical practice. Above linked guidelines describe knowledge and skills useful for psychologists who engage in the assessment, treatment, and other forms of clinical care of older adults. The guidelines were approved by APA's Council of Representatives in August, 2003 and published in the American Psychologist in May/June, 2004.
Assessment of Older Adults with Diminished Capacity: A Handbook for Psychologists is the third work product of the ABA/APA Assessment of Capacity in Older Adults Project Working Group, established in 2003 under the auspices of the interdisciplinary Task Force on Facilitating APA/ABA Relations. The specific goal of this handbook is to review psychological assessment of six civil capacities of particular importance to older adults: medical consent capacity, sexual consent capacity, financial capacity, testamentary capacity, capacity to drive, and capacity to live independently.
This article describes the Pikes Peak model for training in geropsychology.
This evaluation tool is for learners who are working to develop knowledge and skills for providing optimal care to older adults, their families, and related care systems. Psychology trainees, their supervisors, and practicing psychologists may use this tool to evaluate progress in developing geropsychology competencies, and to help define ongoing learning goals and training needs. |
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