Counselling Older PeopleThis text is unique in its application of counselling principles to the specific problems of the older person. The book seeks to demystify counselling and present the counseller as 'carer and friend', not therapist and psychoanalyst. Counselling Older People 2/e has been thoroughly revised and updated and takes into account the changes in practice. There is now a more practical bias with many case studies and examples from a wide cross-section of ethnic groups. The text addresses the social, psychological and practical concernsof older people, and looks at how counselling can be used to help. |
Contents
Counselling and the older adult | 3 |
Chapter | 6 |
Chapter | 9 |
purpose and meaning | 19 |
the legacy of life history | 34 |
Chapter 5 | 45 |
Social distress | 54 |
The actualizing or formative tendency | 72 |
Health | 134 |
Alcohol and drugs | 146 |
the emotional | 152 |
Depression loneliness and loss | 163 |
Dementia and confusion | 175 |
Bereavement and grief | 199 |
Preparation for death | 214 |
Bibliography | 223 |
Common terms and phrases
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