Value of the book and the field
The book is valuable for clinical geropsychologists because it covers current treatment of topics of assessment, diagnosis, and treatment, while also including in-depth cases studies to demonstrate these topics.
Having a text which offers in-depth coverage of a topic of older adult mental health is especially invaluable for young clinicians. Older adult mental health assessment and treatment is often briefly touched on during training so having a resource which dives deeper into these topics is really required in the field now, especially given the aging of the population.
However, there’s always a balance between trying to include a great breadth of topics alongside trying to focus on key clinical topics, which what went the choices in the current text. Therefore, the book offers really key basic topics such as assessment and treatment across a range of clinical settings, as well as more specialized topics.