Psychology of ageing

Selected for Reading Well for Dementia 2024: endorsed by health experts, charities and people affected by dementia.

Elder Abuse and Neglect in Residential Settings: Different National Backgrounds and Similar Responses contains insights and examples from other countries where elder abuse and neglect have been recognized as an issue requiring social policy attention.

Here is an informative overview of the causes and consequences of elder abuse in countries around the world.

"e;Problem-Solving Therapy: A Treatment Manual is a laudable and distinctive resource that contributes to contemporary and exemplary psychotherapy in a big way.

This provocative, intellectually charged treatise serves as a concise introduction to emancipatory gerontology, examining multiple dimensions of persistent and hotly debated topics around aging, the life course, the roles of power, politics and partisanship, culture, economics, and communications.

Imaginationsübungen wirken sich nicht nur bei Traumapatienten positiv aus, auch alten Menschen helfen sie gegen depressive Gefühle, Einsamkeit und Schmerz.

An invaluable resource for the mental health professional who must deal with the uncooperative and difficult elderly patient.

"e;Reading the book Spiritual Competency in Psychotherapy was like having a series of extended conversations with a good friend about what really matters in psychotherapy and life.

Longtime Companions: Autobiographies of Gay Male Fidelity provides a sophisticated alternative to "e;anything goes"e; gay literature.

The Aging Consumer: Perspectives from Psychology and Marketing, 2nd edition takes stock of what is known around age and consumer behavior, identifies gaps and open questions within the research, and outlines an agenda for future research.

An invaluable resource for the mental health professional who must deal with the uncooperative and difficult elderly patient.

Für eine professionelle Pflege und Betreuung alter Menschen sind gründliche Kenntnisse der Gerontologie und Pflegewissenschaft notwendig.

'Thoughtful, lucid and blessedly free of therapese .

Care-giving in dementia is a new speciality with its own rapidly growing body of knowledge.

The papers presented in this volume seek to illuminate relationships among the cognitive style of field dependence- independence and biological, psychological, and sociocultural aspects of human functioning across the life span.

This text employs a communication perspective to examine the aging process and the ability of individuals to adapt successfully to aging.

Throughout the world, the population of older adults continues to grow.

Winner of the 2020 Anselm Strauss Award for Qualitative Family Research, National Council on Family Relations.

Wenn nur die Biologie zählte, würden wir alle ungefähr auf die gleiche Weise altern.

This book is a brief but comprehensive survey of research, writings, and professional practices concerned with death and dying.

As parents we all want the best for our children, but so often over-manage every aspect of their lives, leaving them overwhelmed, lacking motivation, and at risk of mental health problems as adults.

Understand the complex ethical, legal, medical, and psychological issues of the most common form of elder abuse!

The responsibility of providing mental health evaluations and treatment to nursing home patients is increasingly falling on the shoulders of social services and nursing staff.

Aging in the Designed Environment is the key sourcebook for physical and occupational therapists developing and implementing environmental designs for the aging.

The book opens a window to understanding what the elderly value, what they are sorry they missed, how they went about achieving their goals in life, and the wisdom they developed so the younger generation can understand, appreciate, and apply it to their lives.

Understanding Death and Dying teaches students about death, dying, bereavement, and afterlife beliefs by asking them to apply this content to their lives and to the world around them.

Gesprächsführung ist eine zentrale Kompetenz für die umfassende Begleitung von Kindern in Kindertageseinrichtungen.

Television in the Nursing Home: A Case Study of the Media Consumption Routines and Strategies of Nursing Home Residents is a three-stage ethnographic study of media use by the elderly in long-term care facilities.

At a time when the mental health difficulties/disorders of the elderly are coming to the fore of many practitioners' patient rosters, naming and treating those problems is still too often handled as an art as much as a science.

A specialist book for mental health professionals, sex therapists and educators to develop and improve their clinical work with trans clients with regards to their sexual relationships and sexuality.

The journey to adulthood is a big step for all young people.

This book presents, for the first time, a full range of perspectives on emotions and the family from the radical behaviorist to the intrapsychic.

Groups are a universal phenomenon, but their dynamics, make-up and customs can vary widely - a group can be anything from a family to a sports club.

Explore the spiritual dimensions of aging through science, theory, and practice!

This volume looks at human aging from a positive perspective, examining how older adults can exploit psychological strengths to enhance life satisfaction.

Caregiving has emerged as a critical issue in the second half of the life cycle.

Psychologist and best-selling author Charles Garfield shares an uplifting vision as he takes us on a journey of a lifetime.

Die meisten Menschen möchten zuhause alt werden.

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Aging, Biohacking and Technology focuses on a broad range of issues that cover everything from the most basic ways technology and biohacking influence people's everyday lives to concerns about equity, globalization and how we humans produce, consume and are consumed by our technologies.

Der Band führt in die Grundlagen der Kritischen Gerontologie ein und spannt dabei den Bogen von ihrer Theoriegeschichte bis zur Anwendung in der Praxis Sozialer Arbeit.

Originally published in 1984, Gerontology: Social and Behavioural Perspectives presents a selection of the contributions from the annual British Society of Gerontology conference, held at the University of Liverpool in 1983.

Physical activity is a key element in maintaining the independence and quality of life of older people.

Developing skills and competency in CBT is a complex process of which self-observation and self-reflection are an essential part.

LGBT older adults experience issues and challenges that are unique, including institutional heteronormativity, heterosexism in organizations, and homophobia among caregivers and social service providers.

When you read Full Circle: Spiritual Therapy for the Elderly, you'll discover a brand new therapeutic approachspiritual therapyto treating elderly patients with cognitive disorders.

Here is the result of over ten years of hands-on clinical experience by two experts wha have worked with the elderly.

We aspire to live in a country where old men are celebrated as vital elders but not demeaned if they become ill and dependent.

Topically organized, Adult Development and Aging: Growth, Longevity and Challenges provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the aging process in adulthood from multiple perspectives.

Aging, Health and Technology takes a problem-centered approach to examine how older adults use technology for health.