Journal of Clinical Geropsychology
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Association of Behavioral Self-Regulation with Concurrent Functional Capacity Among Stroke Rehabilitation Patients
Journal of Clinical Geropsychology - Tập 8 - Trang 25-33 - 2002
The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that the Behavioral Dyscontrol Scale (BDS), a measure of the executive cognitive capacity to use an intention to guide purposeful, goal-directed activity would be strongly associated with concurrent functional status after controlling for age, sex, education, severity of pain, medical comorbidity, depression, and general mental status, in a samp...... hiện toàn bộ
Signal Detection Analysis of Choice Behavior and Aging
Journal of Clinical Geropsychology - Tập 6 - Trang 73-81 - 2000
The primary research question was whether older adults respond to the contingencies of reinforcement such that they allocate their behavior as predicted by the reinforcement contingencies and discriminative stimuli programmed by the experimenters. Six subjects, ranging in age from 62 to 74 years, participated in 15 experimental sessions. Subjects were instructed to press the “F1” key when they saw...... hiện toàn bộ
Life-Review Technique in the Treatment of PTSD in Elderly Patients: Rationale and Three Single Case Studies
Journal of Clinical Geropsychology - Tập 8 - Trang 239-249 - 2002
Persons exposed to traumatic events in childhood and adolescence may suffer from the symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) well into old age. The aim of this paper is to introduce a structured life-review technique for the treatment of elderly PTSD patients. This technique centers on the discussion and evaluation of each consecutive stage of life. The therapist encourages the patient to...... hiện toàn bộ
Traumatic Brain Injury Outcome in Older Adults: A Critical Review of the Literature
Journal of Clinical Geropsychology - Tập 7 - Trang 161-187 - 2001
This paper is a critical overview of the literature on older adults' outcome after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Eighteen outcome studies were reviewed. Results indicated that older patients demonstrated an increased risk for negative outcome following TBI when compared to younger patients with similar injury severity. Poorer outcome was characterized by higher mortality rates, decreased likelihoo...... hiện toàn bộ
Traumatic Exposure and PTSD in Older Adults: Introduction to the Special Issue
Journal of Clinical Geropsychology - Tập 8 - Trang 149-152 - 2002
The Phenomenology of Posttraumatic Distress in Older Adult Holocaust Survivors
Journal of Clinical Geropsychology - Tập 8 - Trang 189-201 - 2002
This paper focuses on the effects of the Holocaust on its survivors more than 55 years after the end of World War II. The emphasis is on survivors who were either adults during the Holocaust and who are now over the age of 70, or survivors who were children during the Holocaust and whose age is now between 56 and 70. The central question was: What kinds of posttraumatic phenomena are seen in older...... hiện toàn bộ
Personality Disorders in Older Adult Inpatients with Chronic Mental Illness
Journal of Clinical Geropsychology - Tập 6 - Trang 63-72 - 2000
It has been hypothesized that some types of personality disorders tend to remit with age whereas others may become more prominent. The present study determined the prevalence and nature of 13 personality disorders with a self-report inventory (Coolidge Axis II Inventory) in an older group of chronically mentally ill inpatients (N = 30, mean age = 63 years) and a younger group of similar patients (...... hiện toàn bộ
Caregivers Dependent upon Drivers with Dementia
Journal of Clinical Geropsychology - Tập 6 - Trang 83-90 - 2000
This paper reports findings of a preliminary study of caregivers dependent upon drivers with dementia. Fifteen caregivers who perceived themselves as dependent upon their partner for transportation and 15 who perceived themselves as independent were surveyed. Dependent caregivers were significantly more likely to rely on the cognitively impaired driver for routine daily activities such as shopping...... hiện toàn bộ
The Cleveland Scale for Activities of Daily Living (CSADL): Its Reliability and Validity
Journal of Clinical Geropsychology - Tập 7 - Trang 15-28 - 2001
This study evaluated the reliability and validity of the Cleveland Scale for Activities of Daily Living (CSADL), a scale designed to measure in detail specific activities of daily living in individuals with dementia. Administered to knowledgeable informants by trained examiners, the CSADL demonstrated good reliability in terms of interrater agreement and internal consistency. The validity of CSADL...... hiện toàn bộ
Functional Status, Receipt of Help, and Perceived Health
Journal of Clinical Geropsychology - - 1999
We model the effects of disability, functional limitation, and receipt of help on perceived health. This analysis specifies a model with two dimensions of disability and three dimensions of functional limitation, including upper body disability, lower body disability, basic activities of daily living (ADLs), household ADLs, and advanced ADLs. The latent variables of receiving help...... hiện toàn bộ
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