Special Populations: Elderly

• Mental Health and the Elderly (6 Hours)

  Objectives

  • Normal Life-Cycle Tasks
  • Cognitive Capacity With Aging
  • Coping With Loss and Bereavement
  • Overview of Mental Disorders in Older Adults
  • Overview of Prevention and Treatment  in Older Adults
  • Depression in Older Adults
  • Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Schizophrenia in Late Life
  • Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders in Older Adults
  • Overview of Services and Service Delivery Settings
  • Issues Facing Families and Caregivers

  Based in part on Counselor Toolbox Episodes 220 Mental Health in Older Adults, 190 Communicating with the Cognitively Impaired and 222 Overview of Alzheimer's and Dementias

  $18.00 for 90 days
• Trauma, Grief and Personality Disordered…

  Objectives:

  • Explore the similarities between grief, traumatic reactions and personality disordered symptoms.
  • Explore possible etiology of symptoms
  • Change the language from why are you doing this, to How does this make sense?/What happened to you?

  $6.00 for 90 days