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| Shifting our focus from brain to mind | | Author(s) | Mike Bender |
| Journal title | Journal of Dementia Care, vol 6, no 1, January/February 1998 |
| Pages | pp 20-22 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Mental health [elderly] ; Methodology. |
| Annotation | Very little research has focused on psychological approaches to dementia. The author considers the assumptions and beliefs which hinder the development of psychological research: ignoring the organic model; focusing on the part of the brain which is damaged; the linking of `affective symptoms' to organic damage; focus on the carer and on institutional care; and researching specific methods of treatment. Instead, he proposes a framework for developing such research: focus on the person with dementia; focus on mental processes; the person in the community; seeing emotions as individual reactions; analysing difficulties in terms of the functional significance; and the need to work with wide-range models of human personality and functioning. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980406003 A |
| Classmark | EA: D: 3D |
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