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Major social theories of aging and their implications for counseling concepts and practice
— a critical review | | Author(s) | P S Fry |
| Journal title | The Counseling Psychologist, vol 20, no 2, April 1992 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications, London, April 1992 |
| Pages | pp 246-329 |
| Source | Sage Publications Ltd., 6 Bonhill Street, London EC2A 4PU. |
| Keywords | Advisory services [elderly] ; Engagement ; Well being ; Theory ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | The author explores some of the rather distinct perspectives on ageing that have emerged, beginning with the conceptualisations, research studies and criticisms of disengagement theory, activity theory and role theory, leading up to continuity theory and the liberation perspective. The social theory approaches to ageing and the resulting empirical studies examined have affinities with some of the existing perspectives of counselling concepts and practice. The focus is on counselling perspectives aimed at helping older people maintain a satisfactory state of psychological well-being. Particular attention is given to the reciprocal influences among social systems, individual resources, and counsellor effects in helping older clients cope with differential demands, internal pressures and external constraints of the social environment. An integrative framework proposing conceptual links among individual resources, social resources and life satisfaction in old age is presented. Discussion is devoted to persuading counselling psychologists and mental health practitioners that individuals age differently and by differing processes. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980728202 A |
| Classmark | IT: DN: D:F:5HH: 4D: 3A:6KC |
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