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Therapy Over 50 : Aging Issues in Psychotherapy and the Therapist's Life.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780190205690
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Therapy Over 50DDC classification:
  • 616.89139999999998
LOC classification:
  • RC480 -- .K688 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Therapy Over 50 -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Authors -- Part I: Aging in Personal and Professional Development -- 1. What It Means to Be Older -- 2. The Culture of Aging -- Part II: The Aging Therapist -- 3. The Senior Therapist -- 4. Aging Losses-​and Gains -- 5. Tricks of the Trade: What Experience Teaches Us -- 6. On Wisdom and Creativity -- Part III: Aging Clients -- 7. Myths and Misconceptions of What It's Like to Be Old -- 8. Living in the Past -- 9. Common Issues and Challenges of the Elderly -- Part IV: Journeys of Wisdom and Redemption -- 10. Aging Is (Mostly) a State of Mind -- 11. Specialized Strategies for Working with Older Clients -- 12. Death Stalks Us All -- 13. Dreams Lost and Dreams Found -- References -- Index.
Summary: Therapy Over 50 discusses how psychotherapy is different for both the therapist and client after the age of fifty. The text deals with the inevitable and unrelenting changes that take place along with the corresponding lost dreams. It provides both hope and help for those elderly therapists and their clients.
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Cover -- Therapy Over 50 -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Authors -- Part I: Aging in Personal and Professional Development -- 1. What It Means to Be Older -- 2. The Culture of Aging -- Part II: The Aging Therapist -- 3. The Senior Therapist -- 4. Aging Losses-​and Gains -- 5. Tricks of the Trade: What Experience Teaches Us -- 6. On Wisdom and Creativity -- Part III: Aging Clients -- 7. Myths and Misconceptions of What It's Like to Be Old -- 8. Living in the Past -- 9. Common Issues and Challenges of the Elderly -- Part IV: Journeys of Wisdom and Redemption -- 10. Aging Is (Mostly) a State of Mind -- 11. Specialized Strategies for Working with Older Clients -- 12. Death Stalks Us All -- 13. Dreams Lost and Dreams Found -- References -- Index.

Therapy Over 50 discusses how psychotherapy is different for both the therapist and client after the age of fifty. The text deals with the inevitable and unrelenting changes that take place along with the corresponding lost dreams. It provides both hope and help for those elderly therapists and their clients.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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