Working with the Elderly and Their Carers by Paul Terry

Working with the Elderly and Their Carers by Paul Terry

Taking a psychodynamic approach, Counselling the Elderly and their Carers draws on psychoanalytical ideas and their application to individuals, groups, institutions and society, providing a unique insight into the increasingly important area of working with the elderly and their carers. Focusing on understanding the unconscious as well as the conscious experience of being elderly and frail, it addresses issues such as retirement, deteriorating physical illness and death. The importance of the carer is recognised in this book, and includes accounts of working with individual staff in their role as keyworkers for particular patients work which sheds light on the care giving relationship, its rewards and frustrations, as well as on how abusive practices may develop between carer and patient. There is a description of working with carers in a support group working with managers of a long stay hospital and of meetings between elderly patients and staff on long stay wards. This book is aimed at readers who wish to be introduced to the theory and practice of counselling and psychotherapy in this area. It will appeal to a wide range of professionals, including counsellors, therapists, nurses, social workers, doctors and geriatricians, and will prove invaluable to both qualified professionals and students.

Paul Terry co-authored the LOST Encyclopedia and Fringe: September's Notebook and was the editor of Bad Robot/ABC's official magazines for LOST and Alias. Terry is also a songwriter/composer whose film scores include the award-winning werewolf comedy The Furred Man.

Tara Bennett is the author, or co-author, of several movie and TV companion books including Fringe: September's Notebook, Lost Encyclopedia, The Art of 300 and The Art of Terminator Salvation. She has written nearly a thousand features for publications such as: SFX Magazine, LOST: Official Magazine, Alias Magazine, 24 Magazine, SCI FI Magazine, Blastr.com, WSJSpeakeasy, and Movies.com.

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ISBN 13	9780333620113
ISBN 10	0333620119
Title	Working with the Elderly and Their Carers
Author	Paul Terry
Series	Basic Texts In Counselling And Psychotherapy
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Year published	1997-01-08
Number of pages	200
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.