Recent Contributions to Gerontologic Group Psychotherapy

Ross, Mathew

doi:10.1080/00207284.1959.11508125

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“…Others (e.g. Ross, 1959) report successful use of dual therapists, refreshments, tobacco, music, and even group singing and dancing as a "warm up" before group therapy sessions. Others have advocated viewing certain characteristics of the elderly as potential assets in the therapy situation.…”

Section: Adaptation Of Therapy Techniques For the Elderly Clientmentioning

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“…Benefits of group therapy for the aged have been extensively documented. Reports have noted that group participants tend to show reversals in general deterioration including improvement in personal hygiene and appearance (Ross, 1959), noticeable improvements in social interest and mental functioning (Kubie & Landon, 1953), and improved interpersonal relationships (Wolff, 1967). These reported benefits are consistent with the position that continued social involvement, at least of this special type, is beneficial for the morale of old people.…”

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Social perspectives on psychotherapy with the aged.

McGee¹,

Lakin²

1977

Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice

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The therapist-client relationship is greatly influenced by social factors outside the immediate therapy situation. This paper first notes how socioeconomic handicaps of the aged interact with mutually negativistic attitudes toward gerontological psychotherapy held by the aged and by mental health professionals. Next, the therapeutic implications of various social theories of aging (disengagement, activity, exchange) are discussed. Adaptations of therapy techniques for elderly clients are described, including comparisons of group and individual therapy. The social perspective developed in this paper implies that extensive changes in present psychotherapeutic practices with the aged depend upon improvements in the general societal position of the elderly as well as upon solidly grounded assessments of deficits and potentials of individual elderly clients.

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Social perspectives on psychotherapy with the aged.

McGee¹,

Lakin²

1977

Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice

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Major Social Theories of Aging and their Implications for Counseling Concepts and Practice

Fry

1992

The Counseling Psychologist

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The article discusses the counseling implications and applications of a number of social theories of aging. It explores the effects of some of the rather distinct perspectives on aging that have emerged, beginning with the conceptualizations, 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 aging and the resulting empirical studies examined here have affinities with some of the existing perspectives of counseling concepts and counseling practice. The focus is on counseling perspectives aimed at helping elderly individuals maintain a satisfactory state of psychological well-being. Particular attention is given to the reciprocal influences among social systems, individual resources, and counselor effects in helping elderly 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 satisfactions in old age is presented. The discussion is devoted to persuading counseling psychologists and mental health practitioners that individuals age differently and by differing processes. The issues of heterogeneity in the aging processes, the modifiability of these processes, and choices in constructing alternative futures for older persons make it possible for counseling researchers and counseling psychologists to consider aging individuals as synergistic products of ecological, biological, psychosocial, and cultural factors.

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Recent Contributions to Gerontologic Group Psychotherapy

Cited by 2 publications

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Social perspectives on psychotherapy with the aged.

Social perspectives on psychotherapy with the aged.

Major Social Theories of Aging and their Implications for Counseling Concepts and Practice

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