introduction

12
INTRODUCTION • My Story • Your Story

Upload: zea

Post on 12-Feb-2016

33 views

Category:

Documents


0 download

DESCRIPTION

INTRODUCTION. My Story Your Story. Books I Recommend. Barusuch, A.S. (2008). Love Stories of Later Life: A Narrative Approach to Understanding Romance. NY: Oxford University Press. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

TRANSCRIPT

Page 1: INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION• My Story• Your Story

Page 2: INTRODUCTION

Books I Recommend• Barusuch, A.S. (2008). Love Stories of

Later Life: A Narrative Approach to Understanding Romance. NY: Oxford University Press.

• Fink, M. Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Guide for Professionals and Their Patients. NY: Oxford University Press.

• Nezu, A. et al. (2000) Practitioners Guide to Empirically Based Measures of Depression. NY: Kluwer.

• Salzman, C. (2001). Psychiatric Medications for Older Adults. NY: Guilford Press.

Page 3: INTRODUCTION
Page 4: INTRODUCTION
Page 5: INTRODUCTION
Page 6: INTRODUCTION
Page 7: INTRODUCTION

Depression related to Aging• Reactive Depression – mild depressions that arise as a result of a loss or accumulations of losses.• Clinical Depression – out of proportion to the cause with symptoms that persist beyond the usual time and interfere with normal functioning.• Endogenous Depression – a state of deep melancholy unrelated to an obvious cause, which may be more severe and more frequent as they grow older.• Involutional Depression – associated with life-span problems and biological deterioration during the middle years that may be reactivated in old age.

Page 8: INTRODUCTION

Issues related • Genetics and Family• Gender (Women more often

than Men)• Living Alone• Physical Illness• Medication• Race• SES

SES Health Life Satisfaction

Page 9: INTRODUCTION

Contemporary AnalysisNeeds

1. Inclusion: the need to be recognized and to belong, to share experiences and ideas, to feel that the self is significant and worthwhile

2. Affection: the need for intimate emotional attachments, to feel that the self is lovable for both nurturance and support

3. Control: the need for public esteem in order to feel that the self is competent and responsible.

Page 10: INTRODUCTION

Traditional AnalysisNeeds (Durkheim)

Anomic(very rapid change in society)

Egoistic (very Altruistic (verylow level of high level

solidarity) solidarity)

Fatalistic(almost no change in society)

Page 11: INTRODUCTION

Two Scenarios

• The Story• The Film

Page 12: INTRODUCTION

Comments andQuestions