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A guide to psychotherapy and aging: Effective clinical interventions in a life-stage context.Overview of psychotherapy with the elderly: The contextual, cohort-based, maturity-specific-challenge model.

A guide to psychotherapy and aging: Effective clinical interventions in a life-stage context.:... The contextual, cohort-based, maturity-specific-challenge model portrays older adults in a complex light that draws on scientific gerontology. The process of maturation is seen as making older adults more mature in some ways and as producing mild deficits in other cognitive processes. Cohort differences and the specially created social context in which many older adults live invite therapists to understand older adults in a specific context and a context that changes as new cohorts become old and as the social context of older adults changes over time in response to social, economic, and political influences. Finally, some of the problems faced by older adults are encountered more frequently in later life and have come to be identified with old age. Although the problems require specific expertise, the problem should not be overidentified with the age of the client. In the absence of ill health, there is no block to normal therapeutic work with the elderly. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A guide to psychotherapy and aging: Effective clinical interventions in a life-stage context.Overview of psychotherapy with the elderly: The contextual, cohort-based, maturity-specific-challenge model.

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American Psychological Association
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Copyright © 1996 American Psychological Association
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17 –34
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10.1037/10211-011
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The contextual, cohort-based, maturity-specific-challenge model portrays older adults in a complex light that draws on scientific gerontology. The process of maturation is seen as making older adults more mature in some ways and as producing mild deficits in other cognitive processes. Cohort differences and the specially created social context in which many older adults live invite therapists to understand older adults in a specific context and a context that changes as new cohorts become old and as the social context of older adults changes over time in response to social, economic, and political influences. Finally, some of the problems faced by older adults are encountered more frequently in later life and have come to be identified with old age. Although the problems require specific expertise, the problem should not be overidentified with the age of the client. In the absence of ill health, there is no block to normal therapeutic work with the elderly. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Published: Aug 31, 2004

Keywords: psychotherapy; elderly; maturity-specific-challenge model; gerontology

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