Counselling Older Clients / Edition 1

by Ann Orbach

Overview

Psychotherapist Ann Orbach presents a text for practicing and student counselors on working with older clients. She discusses how humans continue to develop as individuals throughout their life, and can benefit from the growth and change possible through counseling even in old age. Coverage includes suitable counselors for the elderly; relationships and sex in later life; treating clients from diverse populations (ethnic minorities, disabled, gay); helping clients understand their own life stories; and coping with loss through retirement, bereavement, disability, and the realization of one's mortality. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761964056
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/11/2003
Pages:	134
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Ann Orbach is a retired psychotherapist with twenty five years experience in private practice. She is the founder of SAGE (Senior Age) Counselling Service and continues to chair its executive committee.

Table of Contents

Age Affirmative Practice
Counsellors, Clients and Settings
Theory and Practice
Time-Limited or Open-Ended
Beginning and Ending
Use and Value of Stories
Obstacles to Change
Avoidance, Resistance and Other Factors
Working with Difference
Relationships and Withdrawal
Loss
Retirement, Bereavement and Diminishment
Facing Death
How Do We Evaluate Counselling?
Some Useful Exercises

Editorial Reviews

'Orbach is a retired psychotherapist who writes this thorough book based on her background in humanistic psychology, as well as on extensive experience and involvement with older clients . She gives examples from practice and gives suggestions on how the counselor in that situation would have to respond'

Counselling Magazine

'This is a warm, compassionate, wise book, the crystallization of Anne Orbach's many years experience of psychotherapy and counselling with the elderly people. It opens up many vistas, questions and creative possibilities for work in this field'

British Journal of Psychotherapy

'…. invaluable to those in counselling training, for carers working with the older age group and for experienced counsellors who may be interested in working with older clients' - Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal

Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal