Citation

Gellis ZD. J. Gerontol. Soc. Work 2010; 53(6): 495-511.

Affiliation

Center for Mental Health & Aging, School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/01634372.2010.494196

PMID

20658417

Abstract

Late-life depression has attracted considerable attention in the social work literature. This study examined levels of knowledge and self-efficacy (confidence) in evaluation of depression in late life among a random sample of social workers (N = 168) from the National Association of Social Workers. Relationships among knowledge on aging, job-related variables, and predictors of knowledge of geriatric depression were examined. Participants ranked depression as one of the most frequent clinical problems seen in practice, scored at the lower end on knowledge about aging, and experienced great difficulty on the items pertaining to suicide in the older adults.

Language: en