The Oxford Encyclopedia of Psychology and Aging serves as a reference for a broad overview of the field of psychology and aging, and as a springboard for delving more deeply into specific topics. Coverage includes theories of psychology and aging, methods for studying psychology and aging, advances in understanding changes in thinking and emotion with aging, social influences on aging, and clinical approaches for psychologists working with older adults.

• Theories and Conceptual Models in Psychology and Aging


• Ever-Emerging Theories of Aging (W. Andrew Achenbaum)


• Integrated Theories of Biological Aging (Conscience P. Bwiza, Jyung Mean Son, and Changhan Lee)


• Cognitive Reserve in the Aging Brain (Michael J. Valenzuela)


• Stress and Coping Theory Across the Adult Lifespan (Agus Surachman and David M. Almeida)


• New Directions in Theories of Emotion and Aging (Joseph A. Mikels and Nathaniel A. Young)


• Dynamic Integration Theory (Manfred Diehl, Eden Griffin, and Allyson Brothers)


• Social Gerontology Theories: Past, Present, and Future (Jill Suitor, Megan Gilligan, Marissa Rurka, Yifei Hou, and Gulcin Con)


• Family Systems Theory (Sara Honn Qualls and Lacey Edwards)


• A Sociocultural-Constructionist Epistemology for the Psychology of Aging (Roger L. Peterson and Katherine A. Lambos)


• Successful Aging: History and Prospects (John W. Rowe and Dawn C. Carr)


• Cultural Values and the Nature of Successful Aging (Sandra Torres)


• Lifespan Developmental Methodology and Analyses


• Statistics


• Longitudinal, Cross-Sectional, and Sequential Designs in Lifespan Developmental Psychology (Susan Krauss Whitbourne)


• Statistical Mediation in Lifespan Developmental Analyses (Oscar Gonzalez and David P. MacKinnon)


• Intraindividual Variability in Lifespan Developmental Methodology (Eric S. Cerino and Karen Hooker)


• Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling in Lifespan Developmental Analyses (Philip Parker and Robert Brockman)


• Methodology for Twin Studies of Aging (Michael J. Lyons, Chandra A. Reynolds, William S. Kremen, and Carol E. Franz)


• Moderation in Lifespan Developmental Analyses (Johnson Ching Hong Li and Virginia Man Chung Tze)


• Multilevel Modeling and Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling in Lifespan Developmental Analyses (Kimberly L. Fine and Kevin J. Grimm)


• Daily Diary Designs in Lifespan Developmental Psychology (Shevaun D. Neupert and Jennifer A. Bellingtier)


• Experience Sampling in Lifespan Developmental Methodology (Michaela Riediger and Antje Rauers)


• Measurement Burst Designs in Lifespan Developmental Research (Gawon Cho, Giancarlo Pasquini, and Stacey B. Scott)


• Mixed Methods Research in Adult Development and Aging (Joseph E. Gaugler, Colleen M. Peterson, Lauren L. Mitchell, Jessica Finlay, and Eric Jutkowitz)


• Mixture Modeling for Lifespan Developmental Research (Alexandre J.S. Morin and David Litalien)


• Dyadic Designs in Lifespan Developmental Methodology (Jeremy B. Yorgason, Melanie S. Hill, and Mallory Millett)


• Statistical Analysis of Dyadic Data in Lifespan Developmental Research (Gizem Hülür and Elisa Weber)


• Biomarkers


• Biodiversity Metrics in Lifespan Developmental Methodology (Lizbeth Benson and Nilam Ram)


• Blood Pressure As a Biomarker in Gerontological Research (Thomas M. Hess, Erica L. O'Brien, and Claire M. Growney)


• Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate as a Biomarker for Stress and Aging Research (Carolyn M. Aldwin and Ritwik Nath)


• Everyday Salivary Cortisol as a Biomarker Method in Lifespan Developmental Methodology (Christiane A. Hoppmann, Theresa Pauly, Victoria I. Michalowski, and Urs M. Nater)


• Inflammation as a Biomarker Method in Lifespan Developmental Methodology (Stephanie J. Wilson, Alex Woody, and Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser)


• Cognitive Aging and Neuroscience


• Brain Organization


• Healthy and Pathological Neurocognitive Aging: Spectral and Functional Connectivity Analyses Using Magnetoencephalography (Gianluca Susi, Jaisalmer de Frutos-Lucas, Guiomar Niso, Su Miao Ye-Chen, Luis Antón Toro, Brenda Nadia Chino Vilca, and Fernando Maestú)


• Neurocognitive Aging and Brain Signal Complexity (Anthony Randal McIntosh)


• Neurocognitive Aging and Functional Connectivity Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Hana Burianová)


• A Review and Reappraisal of the Default Network in Normal Aging and Dementia (Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna, Matthew D. Grilli, and Muireann Irish)


• Theoretical Perspectives on Age Differences in Brain Activation: HAROLD, PASA, CRUNCH-How Do They STAC Up? (Sara B. Festini, Laura Zahodne, and Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz)


• Cognition


• Cognition and Mobility With Aging (Karen Z. H. Li, Halina Bruce, and Rachel Downey)


• Episodic Future Thinking and Cognitive Aging (Daniel L. Schacter, Aleea L. Devitt, and Donna Rose Addis)


• Implicit Memory and Cognitive Aging (Emma V. Ward and David R. Shanks)


• Intraindividual Reaction Time Variability, Attention, and Age-Related Outcomes (David Bunce and Sarah Bauermeister)


• Language and Cognitive Aging (Lori E. James and Sara Anne Goring)


• Metamemory and Cognitive Aging (Christopher Hertzog and Taylor Curley)


• Prospective Memory and Cognitive Aging (Simon J. Haines, Jill Talley Shelton, Julie D. Henry, Gill Terrett, Thomas Vorwerk, and Peter G. Rendell)


• Speech Comprehension and Cognition in Adult Aging (Nicole D. Ayasse, Alexis R. Johns, and Arthur Wingfield)


• Temporal Dynamics of Prospective Memory (Event-Related Potentials) (Robert West)


• Visual Attention With Cognitive Aging (David J. Madden and Zachary A. Monge)


• Working Memory and Cognitive Aging (Paul Verhaeghen)


• Intervention


• Aging and Cognitive Skill Learning (Jack Kuhns and Dayna R. Touron)


• Cognitive Intervention in Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment (Benjamin Boller and Sylvie Belleville)


• Cognitive Rehabilitation in Mild and Moderate Dementia (Aleksandra Kudlicka and Linda Clare)


• Memory Rehabilitation in Healthy Aging (Nicole D. Anderson)


• Aging in Social-Physical-Technical-Cultural Environments


• Subjective Aging


• Awareness of Aging Processes (Anne Josephine Dutt, Hans-Werner Wahl, and Manfred Diehl)


• Critical Role of Social-Cognitive Age Representations (Alison Chasteen, Maria Iankilevitch, Jordana Schiralli, and Veronica Bergstrom)


• Subjective Aging and Health (Gerben J. Westerhof and Susanne Wurm)


• Social Connection


• Aging Couples: Benefits and Costs of Long Intimate Relations (Victoria I. Michalowski, Denis Gerstorf, and Christiane A. Hoppmann)


• Parent-Child Relations and Their Importance for Older Adults (Kyungmin Kim and Yijung Kim)


• Social Isolation and Loneliness in Old Age (Clemens Tesch-Roemer and Oliver Huxhold)


• Social Participation and Volunteering in Later Life (Nancy Morrow-Howell, Yi Wang, and Takashi Amano)


• Social Relationships Across Adulthood and Old Age (Cornelia Wrzus and Jenny Wagner)


• Physical


• Life Space in Older Adults (Markus Wettstein, Hans-Werner Wahl, and Michael Schwenk)


• Physical Contexts and Behavioral Aging (Frank Oswald and Hans-Werner Wahl)


• Technology Use by Older Adults (Sara J. Czaja and Chin Chin Lee)


• Macro


• Aging Societies and the Ethical Challenges of Long Life (Allison R. Heid and Steven H. Zarit)


• Cultural Variance and Invariance of Age Differences in Social Cognition (Li Chu, Yang Fang, Vivian Hiu-Ling Tsang, and Helene H. Fung)


• Population Aging and Globalization: The Impact of Cultural and Social Change (Christopher Phillipson)


• Clinical Geropsychology


• Healthy Aging


• Physical Activity and Inactivity Impacts on Cognitive and Emotional Functioning in Later Life (Patrick D. Gajewski and Michael Falkenstein)


• Resilience in Later Life (Nancy A. Pachana, Nicola W. Burton, Deirdre McLaughlin, and Colin A. Depp)


• Trajectories of Well-Being in Later Life (Nardi Steverink)


• Pathology


• Acquired Brain Injury (Stroke and TBI) in Later Life (Megan S. Barker, Emily C. Gibson, and Gail A. Robinson)


• Anxiety Disorders in Late Life (Jonathan S. Gooblar and Sherry A. Beaudreau)


• Autism Spectrum Disorders in Later Life (Ye In (Jane) Hwang and Julian Trollor)


• Comorbidities of Physical and Psychiatric Syndromes in Later Life (Lydia K. Manning, Lauren M. Bouchard, and James L. Flanagan)


• Dementia Syndromes in Late Life (Shellie-Anne T. Levy and Glenn E. Smith)


• HIV/AIDS in Later Life (Philip Sayegh, David J. Moore, and Pariya Fazeli Wheeler)


• Personality Disorders in Later Life (S. P. J. van Alphen and S. M. J. Heijnen-Kohl)


• Progressive Neurological Conditions and Their Impact on Psychological Well-Being in Later Life (Nadeeka N. Dissanayaka)


• Substance Use in Later Life (Stephen J. Bright)


• Suicide in Later Life (Kim Van Orden, Caroline Silva, and Yeates Conwell)


• Assessment


• Capacity Assessment Across Functional Domains in Later Life (Benjamin T. Mast and Diana DiGasbarro)


• Psychological Assessment of Older Persons (Jarred Gallegos, Julie Lutz, Emma Katz, and Barry Edelstein)


• Therapy


• Caregiving Issues for Older Adults (Andres Losada)


• Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Older Adults (Gregory A. Hinrichsen)


• Schema Therapy With Older Adults (A. C. Videler)


• Care Systems


• Home-Based Care and Primary Care Settings for Delivery of Geropsychology Services to Older Persons (Srijana Shrestha)


• International Perspectives on Residential Aged Care (Nasreen A. Sadeq and Victor Molinari)


• Training


• Clinical Training Concerns in Mental Health Service Provision to Older Persons (M. Lindsey Jacobs and Patricia M. Bamonti)


• Interprofessional Training and Practice: The Need for More Engagement, Training, and Research in Geropsychology (Nancy A. Pachana and Gwen Yeo)

Bob G. Knight, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Counselling at USQ Toowoomba. Prior to May, 2015, for 28 years he was on the faculty of the University of Southern California School of Gerontology, a world leader in the study of aging. He has published extensively in mental health and aging, including Psychotherapy with older adults (Sage, 3rd ed. 2004). He co-authored with Nancy Pachana, Ph.D. (University of Queensland) Psychological assessment and therapy with older adults Oxford University Press (2015). His writing on psychotherapy with older adults includes development of the Contextual Adult Life Span Theory for Adapting Psychotherapy (CALTAP).
His research has focused on issues in stress, emotion and aging, including age differences in the effects of emotion on cognition, cultural differences in stress and coping model for family caregivers of frail older adults, and work on developing a measure of wisdom.
Dr. Knight's work has been recognized by multiple national awards. He served
as the President of Section II, Division 12 (Clinical Geropsychology) of the American Psychological Association in 1997; President of APA Division of Adult Development and Aging, 2003-04; chair of the APA Committee in Aging, 2001. Dr. Knight received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. His professional experience in working with older adults began while working at the Urban League of Madison County (IN) where he organized and served as first president of the Madison County Council on Aging in 1973.