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Counselling the elderly and their carers
Author(s)	Paul Terry
Publisher	Macmillan, London, 1997
Pages	184 pp (Basic Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy)
Source	Macmillan Distribution Ltd., Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hants RG21 6XS.
Keywords	Advisory services [elderly] ; Mental health [elderly] ; Therapy ; Informal care ; Social workers ; Key workers ; Self help organisations ; Case studies.
Annotation	Taking a psychodynamic approach, this book draws on psychoanalytical ideas and their application to individuals, groups, institutions and society, to provide an insight into counselling the elderly and their carers. Focusing on understanding the unconscious as well as the conscious experience of being elderly and frail, issues such as retirement, deteriorating health and death are examined. The importance of the carer is recognised, with the inclusion of accounts of working with individual staff in their role as keyworkers for particular patients: work with carers in a support group; work with managers of a long-stay hospital; and meetings between patients and staff on long-stay wards.
Accession Number	CPA-970206206 B
Classmark	IT: D: LO: P6: QR: QRK: PQ: 69P
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