Abstract
Abstract. Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is the most common anxiety disorder in older adults. To date, however, no measure exists to assess counselor knowledge of older-adult GAD including these age-specific features. A measure entitled the Counseling Older Adult GAD Knowledge Inventory (COGI) was developed to fill this gap. Based on research with other areas of counselor knowledge, we hypothesized a unidimensional factor structure to this area of knowledge and tested the COGI on 100 practicing mental-health counselors. A minimum average partial test revealed one factor of 13 items. This factor was entitled: Knowledge of GAD in Older Adults. No item querying prevalence was retained. Potential uses of the COGI in training and research were discussed.
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