DESCRIPTION

Written in a highly practical and easy-to-read style, Understanding & Counselling Older Persons is a comprehensive handbook and reference compendium which social workers, counsellors and other care professionals will find useful in the course of their practice.

Readers will discover a spread of gems - research data, insights and counselling guidelines - dished out by the authors as they flip through the pages of the handbook.

"This book cuts a wide swath in the field of social and clinical gerontology. It should be a primer for students who want to understand the challenges in this growing discipline."

- Professor Kua Ee Heok, Head, Dept of Psychological Medicine, NUS

"With a mix of factual information, local examples, skills training, case illustrations and short quizzess, trainers will find it useful in their training courses and workshops....It is a convenient and handy reference compendium that social workers, counsellors and other helping professionals will find useful in their practice." - Assoc Prof Ngiam Tee Liang, Head, Dept of Social Work, NUS