Download or read book GeroPsychology written by Rocío Fernández Ballesteros and published by Hogrefe & Huber Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this outstanding book, leading experts from throughout Europe provide a fascinating overview of the most important psychological research into aging, with special emphasis on training and professional issues as well as science. In terms of its population Europe is the oldest continent in the world, thus placing European research into the effects and implications of an aging population in a unique position. As this book shows, the aging of the population should be considered a positive phenomenon that reflects sociopolitical, educational, biomedical, and psychological development. The real threat for our population is not aging but disability, and the challenge for the 21st century is to reduce dependency and disability and thus improve well-being and quality of life, rather than increasing life expectancy. The recent United Nations' 2nd International Plan of Action on Aging and its Research Agenda on Aging for the 21st Century, as well as policies of the European Federation of Psychologists Associations, tell us that psychology and psychologists will play an essential part in meeting this challenge. This book shows how.
Download or read book The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Language Psychology Revivals written by Max Coltheart and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Damage to the brain can impair language in many different ways, severely harming some linguistic functions whilst sparing others. To achieve some understanding of the apparently bewildering diversity of language disorders, it is necessary to interpret impaired linguistic performance by relating it to a model of normal linguistic performance. Originally published in 1987, this book describes the application of such models of normal language processing to the interpretation of a wide variety of linguistic disorders. It deals with both the production and the comprehension of language, with language at both the sentence and the single-word level, with written as well as with spoken language and with acquired as well as with developmental disorders.
Download or read book Maladie d Alzheimer et troubles de la communication written by Thierry Rousseau and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrairement aux idées reçues, la communication avec les patients atteints de la maladie d'Alzheimer est possible et essentielle. Cet ouvrage en expose les différents moyens. Ainsi ces troubles de la communication, leur évaluation et leur prise en charge thérapeutique sont au centre de ce livre. Les processus du vieillissement normal et du vieillissement pathologique sont analysés à travers l'hétérogénéité des manifestations symptomatiques, en particulier au niveau de la communication dans les maladies neurodégénératives, et à travers la perte progressive du statut d'individu communicant du malade et de ses conséquences sur son comportement. Un outil d'évaluation des troubles de la communication des malades Alzheimer, basé sur une approche pragmatique et écologique est proposé. Ce dernier tient compte de la complexité des troubles et des influences multifactorielles que subissent les patients. À partir de cette évaluation, la thérapie écosystémique des troubles de la communication est proposée. Conduite par un thérapeute, celle-ci implique la participation de l'entourage familial et professionnel. Cette 2e édition propose une actualisation de l'ensemble des données au regard des avancées scientifiques et thérapeutiques, à l'aide de grilles, échelles et recommandations. Le chapitre sur les thérapies du langage et la communication est particulièrement révisé en y intégrant notamment l'élargissement de la thérapie écosystémique au réseau social. Des compléments en ligne sont également proposés : sept vidéos produites par l'auteur et trois documents à télécharger. Ceux-ci présentent les moyens pour évaluer la communication ; la thérapie écosystémique ; la grille d'évaluation des capacités de communication (GECCO), qui est également téléchargeable et imprimable en ligne, via un lien présent dans l'ouvrage.- Les processus du vieillissement normal et du vieillissement pathologique analysés à travers l'hétérogénéité des manifestations symptomatiques : communication dans les maladies neurodégénératives, perte progressive du statut d'individu communicant, conséquences sur le comportement du malade. - Un outil d'évaluation des troubles de la communication des malades Alzheimer, basé sur une approche pragmatique et écologique. - La thérapie écosystémique des troubles de la communication conduite par un thérapeute avec la participation de l'entourage du malade.
Download or read book Vieillissement et alzheimer written by Roger Gil and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'allongement de la vie a révélé l'ampleur épidémiologique de maladies neurodégénératives comme la maladie d'Alzheimer. Cette dernière bouleverse le sentiment de Soi de manière tout autre que le vieillissement normal. Cet ouvrage s'adresse à tous ceux, professionnels, parents, chercheurs qui s'interrogent sur les moyens et la manière de repenser l'humain et d'accompagner la personne.
Download or read book Assessment of Aphasia written by Otfried Spreen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-21 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spreen and Risser present a comprehensive, critical review of available methods for the assessment of aphasia and related disorders in adults and children. The authors explore test instruments and approaches that have been used traditionally for the diagnosis of aphasia, ranging from bedside screening and ratings, to tests of specific aspects of language, and to comprehensive and psychometrically standardized aphasia batteries. Coverage of other methods reflects newer trends, including the areas of functional communication, testing of bilingual patients, psycholinguistic approaches, and pragmatic and discourse-related aspects of language in everyday life. The authors also examine the expansion of language assessment to individuals with non-aphasic neurological disorders, such as patients with traumatic brain injury, lesions of the right hemisphere, the healthy elderly, and invidulas with dimentia. Taking a flexible and empirical approach to the assessment process in their own clinical practice, Spreen and Risser review numerous test instruments and their source for professionals and students-in-training to choose from in their own use. The introductory chapters cover the history of aphasia assessment, a basic outline of subtypes of aphasia- both neuro-anatomically and psycholinguistically-, and the basic psychometric requirements for assessment instruments. The final part discusses issues in general clinical practice, specifically questions of test selection and interpretation. The book is a thorough and practical resource for speech and language pathologists, neuropsychologists, and their students and trainees.
Download or read book Biosocialities Genetics and the Social Sciences written by Sahra Gibbon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-07-20 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biosocialities, Genetics and the Social Sciences explores the social, cultural and economic transformations that result from innovations in genomic knowledge and technology. This pioneering collection uses Paul Rabinow’s concept of biosociality to chart the shifts in social relations and ideas about nature, biology and identity brought about by developments in biomedicine. Based on new empirical research, it contains chapters on genomic research into embryonic stem cell therapy, breast cancer, autism, Parkinson’s and IVF treatment, as well as on the expectations and education surrounding genomic research. It covers four main themes: novel modes of identity and identification, such as genetic citizenship the role of institutions, ranging from disease advocacy organizations and voluntary organizations to the state the production of biological knowledge, novel life-forms, and technologies the generation of wealth and commercial interests in biology. Including an afterword by Paul Rabinow and case studies on the UK, US, Canada, Germany, India and Israel, this book is key reading for students and researchers of the new genetics and the social sciences – particularly medical sociologists, medical anthropologists and those involved with science and technology studies.
Download or read book Assessing Quality of Life in Alzheimer s Disease written by Steven Mark Albert and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly written by Robert B. Wallace and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a structured discussion, emphasizing principles and methods, of the public health and epidemiologic approach to the investigation of the health problems of older persons. The authors bring a wide variety of backgrounds to this text, including geriatrics, gerontology, sociology, survey research, and economics, as well as epidemiology and biostatistics. There is a synthesis of traditional health measures, such as morbidity and mortality, with more modern health indices such as functional status, social networks and support, medication use and mental and emotional conditions. The text will assist both practitioners and investigators in approaching the health problems of older persons in the community and population context. It is a uniquely comprehensive resource.
Download or read book Models of Short term Memory written by Susan E. Gathercole and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a collection of the theoretical perspectives that represent the cutting edge of theorising in the area of short-term memory. The contributors, all with long-standing international reputations in this area, have provided overviews of models of short-term memory that are driving current research and thinking in the area, with particular emphasis placed on the detailed description of the functioning of the models. This book will appeal to active researchers in the area of memory, to graduate students, and to academics who wish to update their knowledge of this highly active and fast-developing area of research and theory. Although the book is primarily designed for this advanced study market, the lucid style adopted by the contributors in providing overviews of their models of short-term memory will also appeal to final-year undergraduate students studying in this area.
Download or read book Music and the Aging Brain written by Lola Cuddy and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music and the Aging Brain describes brain functioning in aging and addresses the power of music to protect the brain from loss of function and how to cope with the ravages of brain diseases that accompany aging. By studying the power of music in aging through the lens of neuroscience, behavioral, and clinical science, the book explains brain organization and function. Written for those researching the brain and aging, the book provides solid examples of research fundamentals, including rigorous standards for sample selection, control groups, description of intervention activities, measures of health outcomes, statistical methods, and logically stated conclusions. - Summarizes brain structures supporting music perception and cognition - Examines and explains music as neuroprotective in normal aging - Addresses the association of hearing loss to dementia - Promotes a neurological approach for research in music as therapy - Proposes questions for future research in music and aging
Download or read book Revisiting Moroccan Migrations written by Mohammed Berriane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the 20th century, Morocco has become one of the world’s major emigration countries. But since 2000, growing immigration and settlement of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Europe confronts Morocco with an entirely new set of social, cultural, political and legal issues. This book explores how continued emigration and increasing immigration is transforming contemporary Moroccan society, with a particular emphasis on the way the Moroccan state is dealing with shifting migratory realities. The authors of this collective volume embark on a dialogue between theory and empirical research, showcasing how contemporary migration theories help understanding recent trends in Moroccan migration, and, vice-versa, how the specific Moroccan case enriches migration theory. This perspective helps to overcome the still predominant Western-centric research view that artificially divide the world into ‘receiving’ and ‘sending’ countries and largely disregards the dynamics of and experiences with migration in countries in the Global South. This book was previously published as a special issue of The Journal of North African Studies.
Download or read book Aide M moire Psychologie du vieillissement en 40 notions written by Philippe Tison and published by Dunod. This book was released on 2023-09-13 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parler de vieillissement et de psychologie nécessite d’avoir des connaissances dans des domaines très variés : psychologie cognitive, neuropsychologie, psychanalyse, psychologie sociale, biologie, médecine générale, neurologie, psychiatrie, psychothérapie. Ce livre synthétise ces aspects pour mieux comprendre le sujet âgé. Il aborde : - les notions de pertes et les mécanismes psychologiques d’adaptation ; - les modifications du fonctionnement psychologique avec l’âge ; - les différences entre le normal et le pathologique ; - les principales pathologies psychiatriques et neurologiques, au travers de critères diagnostiques précis et de symptômes spécifiques, illustrées par de nombreuses vignettes cliniques. Diverses méthodes de prise en charge en psychothérapie sont expliquées, chacune ayant des objectifs différents pour le patient : améliorer la qualité de vie, relativiser les difficultés, accepter les déficits, s’adapter aux pertes, corriger des dysfonctionnements cognitifs, stimuler des fonctions altérées. Professionnels du secteur médico-psycho-social travaillant auprès des personnes âgées (plus particulièrement psychologues, médecins et paramédicaux) et étudiants en psychologie puiseront dans ce livre les ressources permettant d’être dans une relation thérapeutique adaptée au sujet âgé.
Download or read book Aging and Behavior written by Jack Botwinick and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Neurolinguistics Historical and Theoretical Perspectives written by Charles P. Bouton and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of the relationship between the human body and language seems to be the inevitable result of any reflexion by man on his particular condi tion. This has held true since the earliest records in written tradition. It may be an excessively ambitious undertaking to try to catalogue the themes in that reflexion and reconstruct its successive stages within the confines of a book of fairly modest proportions such as this one; but the challenge has been stimulating enough to call for a response. The long research work that preceded the writing of this book and the large collection of source material accumulated over a period of several years at least afford the writer the satisfaction of appreciating more than anyone else the care for accuracy and completeness that went into the gradual reduction of this text to manageable proportions. Moreover, it is hoped to make available to all those interested at a later date the rich and rare corpus of documents that forms the basis of this book, in an anthology of selected readings. It was originally intended to publish these documents in a companion volume to this book.
Download or read book Thickening Fat written by May Friedman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thickening Fat: Fat Bodies, Intersectionality, and Social Justice seeks to explore the multiple, variable, and embodied experiences of fat oppression and fat activisms. Moving beyond an analysis of fat oppression as singular, this book will aim to unpack the volatility of fat—the mutability of fat embodiments as they correlate with other embodied subjectivities, and the threshold where fat begins to be reviled, celebrated, or amended. In addition, Thickening Fat explores the full range of intersectional and liminal analyses that push beyond the simple addition of two or more subjectivities, looking instead at the complex alchemy of layered and unstable markers of difference and privilege. Cognizant that the concept of intersectionality has been filled out in a plurality of ways, Thickening Fat poses critical questions around how to render analysis of fatness intersectional and to thicken up intersectionality, where intersectionality is attenuated to the shifting and composite and material dimensions to identity, rather than reduced to an “add difference and stir” approach. The chapters in this collection ask what happens when we operationalize intersectionality in fat scholarship and politics, and we position difference at the centre and start of inquiry.
Download or read book Psychologie et vieillissement written by Collectif and published by Presses universitaires de Provence. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage est le fruit du travail collectif de psychologues, de médecins et d’enseignants-chercheurs dont l’objectif est d’établir une synthèse des travaux, des approches et des perspectives dans le cadre de la psychologie du vieillissement. De la clinique et la prise en charge dans les milieux spécialisés (EHPAD) à la démarche diagnostique, du vieillissement normal à la maladie d’Alzheimer, nous avons souhaité présenter les multiples facettes du travail de psychologue auprès des personnes âgées et sur les différents terrains concernés. À travers la lecture de ces dix chapitres, une vision d’ensemble de l’immense territoire de la psychologie du vieillissement, des enjeux de santé et de société qu’elle englobe, mais aussi des défis qu’il reste à relever, est ainsi proposée.
Download or read book Clinical Neurology of Aging written by Martin L. Albert and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thorough revision of a well-established text presents essential information on the neurobiology of aging. There are new chapters on competency and ethics, problems of daily living, psychopharmacology, and stability and falls. Written in a accessible style, this book will be invaluable to clinicians and neurologists who treat elderly patients.
