Areas of focus

Dr. Chafetz's practice has several areas of emphasis.

I. CLINICAL GERO-PSYCHOLOGY
  • Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias
  • Caregiving
  • Grandparenting
  • Grieving a loss
  • Intergenerational conflict
  • Is it time to move out of our home?
  • Is it time to stop driving?
  • Normal psychological aging
  • Senility
  • Senior housing: retirement, assisted living, nursing homes 

II. ADULT PSYCHOLOGY
  • Authority and responsibility in families
  • BOOM: Becoming one's own man
  • Boomerang adult children
  • Caregiving
  • Difficult relatives
  • Adult children and elderly parents
  • Empty nest
  • Intergenerational conflict
  • Long term marriage
  • Midlife crisis
  • Retirement
  • Saying “no” to loved ones 
  • Sleep in middle age 

III. FORENSIC GERO-PSYCHOLOGY
  • Competence to sign a will
  • Contesting a will
  • Guardianship
  • Vulnerability to exploitation 

IV. HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY 
  • Adjusting to chronic or progressive illness or disability
  • Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias
  • Depression
  • Insomnia
  • Menopause
  • Pain management
  • Psychiatric medicines 

V. PSYCHOLOGY OF LIFE   
  • Assertiveness
  • Birth order and personality
  • Lifelong human psychological development
  • Self-esteem
  • Sources of our personality
  • Stages of adulthood
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