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Men providing care
— what do they need and how can we do it? | | Author(s) | Sean A Lauderdale, Dolores Gallagher-Thompson |
| Journal title | Clinical Gerontologist, vol 26, nos 1/2, 2002 |
| Pages | pp 53-70 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Women as carers ; Group work ; Pilot ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Presented is the experience of recruiting and implementing psycho-educational groups for caregiving men, based on a cognitive-behavioural model designed to teach skills for managing distressful emotional reactions resulting from caregiving (e.g. anger, depression). 7 Caucasian men (6 husbands and 1 son, mean age 78) participated in a psycho-educational group for 6 sessions. 4 men (2 Caucasian, 2 Asian-American; 3 husbands and 1 son) participated in subsequent groups. Feedback - on such matters as appreciating a skills-based approach to managing distress - was gathered at the last group meeting and individual interviews. Participants indicated that the sharing of emotions was an important aspect of the group. Asian-American participants suggest that culturally consistent case examples, group leaders, and group members should be incorporated in future groups. Other participants suggested sessions focusing on accessing local community caregiving resources, practical strategies for managing daily care, and extra sessions to practise skills learned. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030516209 A |
| Classmark | P6:SH: IGG: 4UC: 7T |
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