Psychology of ageing

Life and Death considers ageing and mortality from a psychoanalytic perspective and from the point of view of the individual, the couple, and the family.

Offering a unique philosophical, theoretical and process-focused introduction to one of the cornerstones of CBT: assessment and case formulation.

Margaret Cruikshank's Learning to Be Old examines what it means to grow old in America today.

Due to improvements in health and healthcare, the elderly population is expanding rapidly within the developed world.

"e;An exhilarating wine book.

This book covers the essentials of psychotherapeutic work with older adults, discussing how contemporary psychodynamic thought can be applied clinically to engage the older patient in psychotherapeutic work of depth and meaning, work that not only relieves suffering but also promotes growth.

Involved Fathering and Men's Adult Development is an interdisciplinary book that synthesizes theoretical, empirical, and anecdotal writings from different fields and provides an analysis of extensive interviews with 40 fathers.

What does it mean to practice therapy in an existential way?

This bestselling guide to the basic theory, skills and applications of cognitive behaviour therapy is fully updated to reflect recent developments in CBT theory.

Winner of the 2022 Textbook & Academic Authors Association's The McGuffey Longevity Award Aging: Concepts and Controversies is structured to encourage a style of teaching and learning that goes beyond conveying facts and methods.

An unforgettable collection of retold myths and folk tales, celebrating the wisdom and power of women in midlife and beyond, from the award-winning author of Hagitude'An extra ordinary selection of stories .

'A dazzling chronicle, a bracing challenge to modernity's smug assumptions' - Bryce Christensen, Booklist'O what a world of profit and delightOf power, of honour and omnipotenceIs promised to the studious artisan.

The idea of one's memory "e;filling up"e; is a humorous misconception of how memory in general is thought to work; it actually has no capacity limit.

Within the context of long-range planning, this book examines the changing responsibilities of the state and family toward elders in different societies around the world.

This important new book describes the origins, developments, and current status of personal response systems, a new means for persons at risk who live alone to get help in case of emergency.

Handbook of the Biology of Aging, Eighth Edition, provides readers with an update on the rapid progress in the research of aging.

This volume focuses on understanding the impact of age-related decline in cognitive abilities on medical decisions and compliance with medical instructions.

Critical Gerontology Comes of Age reflects on how baby boomers, caretakers, and health professionals are perceiving and adapting to historical, social, political, and cultural changes that call into question prior assumptions about aging and life progression.

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

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.

Growing older can be a time of great joy and satisfaction for men as they look back on their accomplishments and gain more free time, but it can also be a challenging and distressing experience, especially for those men raised with the very traditional notions of what it means to be a "e;real man.

Individuals and families face challenges at the end of life that can vary significantly depending on social and cultural contexts, yet more than ever is now known about the needs that cut across the great diversity of experiences in the face of dying and death.

Drawing on a range of bio-medical, psychological, and socio-demographical sciences, this book explains the latest scientific discoveries for aging well.

This fascinating book addresses the cultures and concerns of five major ethnic groups: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Asian Indian, and Vietnamese.

This book brings together some of the best known experts in their fields to offer a cross-disciplinary summary of current research on human memory.

In the past fifty years, scholars of human development have been moving from studying change in humans within sharply defined periods, to seeing many more of these phenomenon as more profitably studied over time and in relation to other processes.

This book, containing thirty-two chapters, presented at a national seminar, organized by the Centre of Advanced Study in Psychology, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, addresses behavioural issues in ageing in the context of Indian socio-cultural milieu.

Although all recorded societies have contained a few people of extreme old age, they have been the exception rather than the rule.

Older people who would prefer to stay in their homes and states whose funds are being depleted by the rising costs of Medicaid payments to nursing homes find the current system of long-term care unsatisfactory.

Möglichst lange fit und aktiv zu sein gehört zu den Wünschen der meisten Menschen.

This book is a refreshingly honest self-help guide to aging well.

First published in 1986.

Retirement is about change, not age.

This collection of transcripts from sessions by certified Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapists gives therapists, educators, and child welfare and residential treatment professionals a detailed understanding of how Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy is used to help children who have a history of neglect, abuse, orphanage care, or other experiences that may interfere with the normal development of attachment between parent and child.

This highly practical volume presents valuable insights for all professionals who provide activities for the impaired elderly.

We all age differently, but we can learn from shared experiences and insights.

Validation is a successful way of communicating with older adults with Alzheimer's-type dementia and responding to their challenging behaviors.

The essential guide to making sure you have a fabulous later life.

A practical guide to providing home-based mental health services, Providing Home Care for Older Adults teaches readers how to handle the unique aspects of home-based care and apply and adapt evidence-based assessment and treatment within the home-based setting.

'Essential reading' Age UKSod 70!

Written by a team of leading trainers, practitioners and supervisors, this bestselling classic is the trainee therapist's best friend.

Intended for long-term care providers, consumers, and gerontology students, this valuable new guidebook and manual encourages the promotion and enhancement of adult day care as an essential link in long-term care.

The final volume in this significant series, this publication mirrors the broad scientific attention given to ideas and issues associated with the life-span perspective: constancy and change in human development; opportunities for and constraints on plasticity in structure and function across life; the potential for intervention across the entire life course (and thus for the creation of an applied developmental science); individual differences (diversity) in life paths, in contexts (or the ecology) of human development, and in changing relations between people and contexts; interconnections and discontinuities across age levels and developmental periods; and the importance of integrating biological, psychological, social, cultural, and historical levels of organization in order to understand human development.

This book is concerned with people who are approaching the end of their lives, as well as with the personal and professional caregivers who accompany them during this last stage.

This book bridges the gap between Islamic and conventional (micro)economics by demonstrating how modern tools and theories of microeconomics can be applied to Islamic assumptions regarding economics and finance.

A dramatic shift in the average age of the U.

Grandparenting: Contemporary Perspectives is one of the first books of its kind to offer a dedicated account of the social and psychological research on this important life stage.

Preparing Participants for Intergenerational Interaction: Training for Success examines established intergenerational programs and provides the training methods necessary for activity directors or practitioners to start a similar program.