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This provocative volume guides practitioners and future practitioners alike to use strengths-based interventions in helping older adults to help themselves and improve their quality of life by reinforcing and valuing their age, wisdom, and experiences. This book's renowned authors emphasize an extremely practical, strengths-based, multidisciplinary--social, physical, psychological, and spiritual--approach to therapy with older adults, and an abundance of detailed case studies shows you how it can be applied. Learn innovative ways to focus interventions on older adults' remaining strengths and successful coping strategies using principles of autonomy and consumer empowerment to increase quality of life solution-focused therapies reformulated constructs about retirement creative approaches to aging, such as transpersonal gerontology cultural competence in care management narrative therapies strengths-based treatment of traumas new concepts of nursing facility care and more This is the textbook for students in undergraduate, graduate, or certificate programs in social work, gerontology, psychology/psychotherapy, geropsychiatry, counseling, and marital and family therapy. Plus, providers of mental health care, pastoral counseling, care/case management, and allied health care providers will find inspiration and guidance for working with today's burgeoning population of elders.

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• About the Editors(p. vii)
• Contributors(p. ix)
• Acknowledgments(p. xi)
• Foreword: Blurring the Lincs, Expanding the Vision(p. xiii)
• Introduction(p. xix)
• Section I Engaging People's Strengths for Successful Aging
• Chapter 1 Aging in the Next Millennium: What the Future Holds for Us(p. 3)
• Chapter 2 Autonomy and Consumer Empowerment: Making Quality of Life the Organizing Principle for Long-Term Care Policy(p. 15)
• Chapter 3 Strengths-Based Health Care: Self-Advocacy and Wellness in Aging(p. 33)
• Chapter 4 Care Management: A Strengths-Based Approach to Mental Wellness with Older Adults(p. 85)
• Chapter 5 The Social Portfolio: The Role of Activity in Mental Wellness as People Age(p. 113)
• Chapter 6 Why Most People Cope Well with Retirement(p. 123)
• Chapter 7 Conscious Aging: A Strategy for Positive Change in Later Life(p. 139)
• Chapter 8 Changing Institutional Culture: Can We Re-value the Nursing Home?(p. 161)
• Section II From Symptoms to Strengths in Therapy and Counseling
• Chapter 9 Fundamental Concepts of Milton II. Frickson and Their Relevance to Older Clients(p. 181)
• Chapter 10 Solution-Focused Therapy: Elders Enhancing Exceptions(p. 201)
• Chapter 11 Narrative Therapy with Older Adults(p. 237)
• Chapter 12 The Narrative Solutions Approach: Bringing Out the Best in People as They Age(p. 273)
• Chapter 13 Strengths-Based Approaches to Trauma in the Aging: An Albanian Kosovar Experience(p. 299)
• Chapter 14 Caring for People with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: Strengths-Based Approaches(p. 315)
• Chapter 15 Lessons from the Lifelines Writing Group for People in the Early Stages of Alzheimer's Disease: Forgetting that We Don't Remember(p. 343)
• Chapter 16 Exploring the Creative Potential of People with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia: Dare to Imagine(p. 353)
• Afterword(p. 369)
• Index(p. 373)