The American Psychological Association’s Family Caregiver Briefcase for Psychologists is now available at: http://www.apa.org/pi/about/publications/caregivers/index.aspx . The Briefcase is a web-based resource that psychologists can use to assist family caregivers through individual and organizational practice, research, teaching, advocacy and community service. It is also useful for other professionals who work with family caregivers, psychologists facing caregiving challenges within their own families, and caregivers themselves.
Briefcase components include: Caregiving facts and figures; Strategies for reaching family caregivers; Research opportunities and considerations; Caregiving interventions; Assessment tools; Variations in practice for diverse groups; Practical aspects of providing services; Teaching about Caregiving; Advocacy on behalf of family caregivers; Roles for and profiles of psychologists who work with family caregivers, and Resources for psychologists and caregivers.
The Briefcase was developed by the members of the 2010 APA Presidential Task Force on Caregivers: Andrea Farkas Patenaude, Ph.D.(Chair), Martha Crowther, Ph.D., MPH, Timothy Elliott, Ph.D., ABPP, William Haley, Ph.D., Barry J. Jacobs, Psy.D, and Sara Honn Qualls, Ph.D. For additional information contact: Deborah DiGilio, APA staff liaison to the Task Force and Director of the APA Office on Aging at ddigilio@apa.org.
Deborah DiGilio| Director, Office on Aging |
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