Insights on Caring for Any Aging Parent - Timely guidance for the challenges - Encouragement for the journey You had plans for this time in your life, but now a parent needs care. It's a confusing, stressful, and exhausting time. But it can also be a time of remarkable spiritual growth. Loving Your Parents When They Can No Longer Love You helps you navigate your role as caregiver with God's grace and guidance. And it alerts you to the difficult issues you may face, such as: - Legal and financial decisions - How much care will be needed and when - Evaluating different living options -...
Insights on Caring for Any Aging Parent - Timely guidance for the challenges - Encouragement for the journey You had plans for this time in your life,...
Through detailing and examining the four interplaying dimensions of relationships - objectifiable facts, individual psychology, systemic interactions, and relational ethics - Contextual Theory gives therapists the ability to reshape human relationships and solve problems using the strengths of trusts, fairness and freedom.
Through detailing and examining the four interplaying dimensions of relationships - objectifiable facts, individual psychology, systemic interactions,...
This book offers therapists guidance in helping multigenerational families with older members understand and cope with the myriad challenges they face. The authors translate the aging process from an abstract, nebulous concept into a concrete stage of life with its own struggles and opportunities and examine the intergenerational impact of aging. Full consideration is given to issues such as confronting death; life validation; life review; exoneration, forgiveness, and healing in the family; and balancing obligations and entitlements.
This book offers therapists guidance in helping multigenerational families with older members understand and cope with the myriad challenges they face...
As the population of the United States ages, and the lifspan increases, so does the number of living generations. The mental health care delivery system therefore faces new challenges. The United States is heading into the 21st century with multigenerational families now commonplace, with up to four or five generations co-existing at the same time. And each generation is forced to deal with its own developmental transitions as well as complex cross-generational issues. When a therapist steps into this situation, his or her role has to take on board the complexity of the whole family system.
As the population of the United States ages, and the lifspan increases, so does the number of living generations. The mental health care delivery syst...
How can a therapist help his or her clients and ensure that they continue to maintain the insights and motivations learned during therapy in everyday life, beyond termination? Restoration Therapy is a professional resource that introduces the reader to the essential elements of its namesake, and from there guides clinicians to a systemic understanding of how certain forces lead to destructive cycles in relationships, which perpetuate more and more dysfunction among members. Clients and therapists both will understand issues more clearly, experience the impacts that emotion can...
How can a therapist help his or her clients and ensure that they continue to maintain the insights and motivations learned during therapy in everyd...