Counselling older people / Steve Scrutton.

Previous ed.: 1989.

Includes bibliographical references 223-229 and index.

Part 1: THE NEED FOR COUNSELLING:-1. Counselling and the older adult --Counselling--the older adult--and their culture-- 2. Ageism: the social creation of old age --Dominant social values and ageism--The social creation of ageism--The origins of ageism--Structural ageism--Death and decline: purpose and meaning in old age--Ageism and the counsellor-- 3.Counselling agendas: old age -- Coping with loss--Ageist attitudes and the experience of old age-- 4.Counselling agendas: the legacy of life history -- A developmental psychology of ageing--The troubled emotions--Approaches to ageing--The unconscious world of meaning--Emotional repression--Professional assistance - the role of counselling--Self-image--PART 2: THE PROCESS OF COUNSELLING:- 5. The counselling relationship--Client-centred counselling--Power and the counselling relationship--Resistance to counselling and counsellors--6. The skills of counselling:- Social distress--Self-expression--Identifying problems: interpreting what we hear--Presenting problems--The pain of the counselling process--Self-image: building a hypothesis--Blocks--The actualizing or formative tendency--Developing self-awareness--Personal change: countering ageism--The ultimate goal - successful ageing and personal growth--PART 3: RELATED SKILLS:- 7. Group Counselling:- Groups for recreational and social activity--Informal counselling in groups-- Formal counselling in groups--Peer counselling--Self-help and self-action groups--Age-integrated groups--8. Family counselling:-Systems theory --Family construct theory--Family care of the older relative--Maintaining the family group--9. Reminiscence and the life review:- Reminiscence --The reminiscence group--The life review - making sense of a lifetime--PART 4: EMPLOYING COUNSELLING SKILLS: 10. Preparation for retirement:- Economic policy and retirement--Social attitudes and individual need--The social impact of retirement--Post-retirement counselling--11. Social engagement:- Attachment behaviour--Disengagement theory--Activity theory and the loss of social roles--The marital relationship--Sexual relationships--Conclusion--12. Health:- The medicalization of health--Health and ageism--Health and mental attitude--Health, exercise and fitness--The importance of good diet--Monitoring medical practice--Alternative medical practice--Counselling sick people--13. Alcohol and drugs:- The causes of alcohol abuse--Social distress and alcohol abuse--The physical effects of alcohol--Detecting excessive alcohol use--Supporting the alcohol abuser--Prescription drugs--14. Disability and dependence: the emotional and social impact:-\'Disablist\' thinking--The emotional significance of dependence--The limitations of caring--Gradual dependence--Sudden dependence--Reactions to dependence--Incontinence--Dependence and leisure--Sensory impariment--The abuse of older dependent people--15. Depression, loneliness and loss:-Depression in older age--The causes of depression--A counselling approach to depression--Suicide--16. Dementia and confusion:- Medical definitions--Questioning medical orthodoxy --The social creation of confusion/dementia--Confusion: the emergence of the person--Possible social links with confusion/dementia--Possible health factors and confusion--The role of the counsellor--Techniques to assist the counsellor --Caring for carers--17. Bereavement and Grief:- The denial of death--The sanitization of bereavement--The right to grieve--Patterns of normal grieving--Patterns of abnormal grieving--Factors leading to abnormal grieving--Recovery from bereavement - a counselling approach--18. Preparation for death:- The avoidance of death--Talking about death--Euthanasia--Supporting the dying person--The process of dying.

This edition takes into account changes in practice. It addresses the social, psychological and practical concerns of older people, and looks at how counselling can be used to help.