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Alvin I. Goldfarb
Publications - 7
Citations - 1015
Alvin I. Goldfarb is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Psychological evaluation & Psychological testing. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 7 publications receiving 1005 citations.
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Brief objective measures for the determination of mental status in the aged.
TL;DR: It is concluded that the face-hand test and the mental status questionnaire are valid measures for the determination of mental status in the aged, particularly for disorders associated with cerebral damage.
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The relationship of mental and physical status in institutionalized aged persons
TL;DR: It was found that persons tended to have disabilities consistent with the type of services to be expected in the institution, and patients in state hospitals had the largest number with poor mental functional status, while there was predominance of persons with poor physical functional status found in the nursing homes.
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Psychotherapy of aged persons. II. Utilization and effectiveness of brief therapy.
Alvin I. Goldfarb,Helen Turner +1 more
TL;DR: This study is essentially an attempt to elaborate on a method of giving reassurance and emotional support to aged people based on clinical data organized in terms of observed adaptational efforts of aged persons.
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The response to group psychotherapy of aged recent admissions compared with long-term mental hospital patients.
Robert L. Wolk,Alvin I. Goldfarb +1 more
TL;DR: The effect of one year of group psychotherapy upon two types of geriatric patients in a state mental hospital was tested in a controlled study of long-term patients who had aged in the hospital and recently admitted aged patients.
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Factors in selection of psychiatric treatment for institutionalized aged persons.
TL;DR: The selection of aged patients for psychotherapy appears to follow the same sociopsychological trends as in younger persons, which tends to weed out the most helpless, anxious and most psychotherapeutically malleable candidates for psychiatric care.