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| Introduction of a university-based counselling service for older adults | | Author(s) | Sunil S Bhar, Mark Silver |
| Journal title | Australasian Journal on Ageing, vol 33, no 1, March 2014 |
| Publisher | Wiley Blackwell, March 2014 |
| Pages | pp 36-42 |
| Source | wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/ajag |
| Keywords | Mental health [elderly] ; Advisory services [elderly] ; Universities ; Postgraduate education ; Training [welfare work] ; Evaluation ; Australia. |
| Annotation | Despite the growing number of older adults in Australia, many do not access counselling, partly because of the lack of trained mental health professionals for older people. This paper describes an innovative solution for providing counselling services to older adults, and geropsychology training to postgraduate psychology students. A university-based counselling clinic for older adults was described: this was an outreach service for older adults living in the community or in residential aged care facilities in metropolitan Melbourne. Over its first 13 months, the clinic provided a total of 266 sessions of counselling to 57 clients (41 living in residential aged care), and involved six postgraduate students. This paper describes the potential benefits of the clinic for clients and students and the resources needed to support this model of service delivery. It can be seen as a blueprint for other universities developing similar services for older adults. (JL) |
| Accession Number | CPA-150605256 A |
| Classmark | D: IT: V5: V7P: QW: 4C: 7YA |
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