Offers a balanced scientist-practitioner approach, with chapters that succinctly review empirical research across a broad range of areas and offer practical approaches for the application of theory to everyday practice with the aging population. In two volumes, the handbook will help the reader better understand how the field has grown over the past 30 years and to assess the several directions in which it is headed.

Volume 1. History and Status of the Field and Perspectives on Aging
Editorial Board
About the Editors-in-Chief
Contributors
Series Preface
Introduction
Part I: Historical Perspectives
Chapter 1: Historical Perspectives on Clinical Geropsychology
Norman Abeles
Chapter 2: Pikes Peak Conference and Competency-Based Training in Professional Geropsychology
Michele J. Karel, Victor Molinari, Erin E. Emery-Tiburcio, and Bob G. Knight
Chapter 3: Evolutions and Revolutions in Medicare Policy and Reimbursement of Geropsychology Services
Margaret P. Norris
Part II: Geropsychology Today
Chapter 4: Geropsychology in Interprofessional Teams Across Different Practice Settings
Kelly O'Shea Carney, Amber M. Gum, and Antonette M. Zeiss
Chapter 5: Evidence-Based Treatments and Their Status in Geropsychology
Forrest Scogin and Lisa Mieskowski
Chapter 6: Research Trends in Geropsychology
George Niederehe
Chapter 7: Ethics in Geropsychology: Status and Challenges
J. Ray Hays and Floyd L. Jennings
Part III: Normal Aging
Chapter 8: Cognitive Aging and Cognitive Training
Sherry L. Willis and Julie Blaskewicz Boron
Chapter 9: Personality Development Across the Life Span: Theory, Research, and Application
Paul W. Griffin, Daniel K. Mroczek, and Kristen Wesbecher
Chapter 10: Emotion and Emotion Regulation
Susan T. Charles and Jennifer W. Robinette
Chapter 11: Social Perspectives: Support, Social Relations, and Well-Being
Neal Krause and R. David Hayward
Chapter 12: Positive Aging: At the Crossroads of Positive Psychology and Geriatric Medicine
Robert D. Hill and Derek J. Smith
Chapter 13: Successful, Optimal, and Resilient Aging: A Psychosocial PerspectiveCarolyn M. Aldwin and Heidi Igarashi
Part IV: Diversity in Aging Experience
Chapter 14: Attitudes About Aging
Gregory A. Hinrichsen
Chapter 15: Multicultural Competence in Geropsychology
David A. Chiriboga and Mario Hernandez
Chapter 16: International Trends in Geropsychology
Nancy A. Pachana
Chapter 17: Gender and Aging: Perspectives From Clinical Geropsychology
Susan Krauss Whitbourne and Jamila Bookwala
Chapter 18: Understanding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Older Adults
Douglas C. Kimmel, Kate L. M. Hinrichs, and Lauren D. Fisher
Chapter 19: Spirituality, Religion, and Aging: Clinical Geropsychology and Aging People's Need for Meaning
Susan H. McFadden
Chapter 20: Grandparenting
Bert Hayslip Jr., Robert J. Maiden, Kyle S. Page, and Megan L. Dolbin-MacNab
Part V: Geriatric Medicine and Clinical Geropsychology
Chapter 21: Dementia: A Health Care Team Perspective
Asenath La Rue
Chapter 22: Delirium in Clinical Geropsychology
Hae Ri Na and Carol A. Manning
Chapter 23: Aging, Chronic Disease, and the Biopsychosocial Model
Andrea M. Garroway and Bruce Rybarczyk
Chapter 24: Psychopharmacology and Polypharmacy
Merla Arnold
Index

Volume 2: Assessment,Treatment, and Issues of Later Life
Editorial Board
Contributors
Part I: Assessment and Treatment for the Psychological Disorders of Aging
Chapter 1: Depression in Later Life
Barry A. Edelstein, Patricia M. Bamonti, Jeffrey J. Gregg, and Lindsay A. Gerolimatos
Chapter 2: Late-Life Anxiety Disorders
Emily S. Bower and Julie Loebach Wetherell
Chapter 3: Personality Disorders in Later Life
Steve Balsis, Richard A. Zweig, and Victor Molinari
Chapter 4: Schizophrenia in Late Life
Brent T. Mausbach and Jennifer Ho
Chapter 5: Alcohol Abuse and Substance Misuse in Later Life
Derek D. Satre and Jennifer Price Wolf
Chapter 6: Suicidal Behavior in Older Adults
Amy Fiske, Merideth D. Smith, and Elizabeth C. Price
Chapter 7: Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease
Melissa Castro and Glenn E. Smith
Chapter 8: Vascular Cognitive Impairment
David Nyenhuis
Chapter 9: Parkinson's Disease Dementia and Dementia With Lewy Bodies
Scott A. Sperling, Alexandra C. Geneser, and Carol A. Manning
Chapter 10: Clinico-Behavioral and Neuropathological Sequelae of Traumatic Brain Injury in the Aging Brain
Lisa Delano-Wood, Erin D. Bigler, Daniel A. Nation, Alexandra Clark, Rhoda Au, and Mark W. Bondi
Chapter 11: Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of DementiaJiska Cohen-Mansfield
Chapter 12: Person-Centered Assessment and Intervention for People With Dementia
Benjamin T. Mast, Jamie Shouse, and Cameron J. Camp
Chapter 13: Cognitive Training for Mildly Impaired Older Adults
Lee Hyer, Christine Mullen , and Laura McKenzie
Chapter 14: Late-Life Sleep and Sleep Disorders
Christina S. McCrae, Alicia J. Roth, Roberto Zamora, Natalie D. Dautovich, and Kenneth L. Lichstein
Chapter 15: Sexual Health and Well-Being in the Context of Aging
Maggie L. Syme, Colleen C. Cordes, Rebecca P. Cameron, and Linda R. Mona
Chapter 16: Pain Assessment and Management in Older Adults
Thomas Hadjistavropoulos
Chapter 17: Diabetes and Obesity in Later Life
Erin E. Emery-Tiburcio, Lisa M. Nackers, Steven Bernfeld, and Rebecca Lahey
Chapter 18: Mobility in Later Life
Dawn A. Skelton and Jennifer Muhaidat
Part II: Independence, Life Transitions, and Social Adjustments
Chapter 19: Driving and the Transition to Nondriving Mobility: Change Process and Opportunities for Intervention
Thomas M. Meuser
Chapter 20: Assessment and Treatment of Family Caregivers
Steven H. Zarit and Allison M. Heid
Chapter 21: Competency and Decision-Making Capacity: Negotiating Health and Financial Decision Making
Peter A. Lichtenberg, Sara Honn Qualls, and Michael A. Smyer
Chapter 22: Geropsychological Practice With People Near the End of Life
Brian D. Carpenter
Chapter 23: Retirement Redefined
Harvey L. Sterns and Cynthia K. McQuown
Chapter 24: Marriage, Second Couplehood, Divorce, and Singlehood in Old Age
Liat Ayalon and Chaya Koren
Chapter 25: Bereavement in Later Life: Theory, Assessment, and Intervention
Robert A. Neimeyer and Jason M. Holland
Chapter 26: Elder Abuse and Neglect
Laura Mosqueda and Bonnie Olsen
Index

Editors-in-Chief Peter A. Lichtenberg and Benjamin T. Mast