Date of Award
1982
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Psychology
Abstract
The elderly represent nearly a third of the population in public psychiatric facilities. The social and physiological changes associated with aging can lead to a variety of psychiatric disturbances which necessitate institutionalization of the elderly individual. Treatment of these disturbances is likely to be based on the medical model of psychopathology, although findings indicate that behaviorally-oriented therapy may often be the more appropriate course of action. The reported findings carry implications pertinent to the future of geropsychology.
Recommended Citation
McClintock, Susan C., "Assessment, intervention and treatment of geriatric psychopathology : a comparison of the medical and behavioral models" (1982). Honors Theses. 558.
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/honors-theses/558