Being with Older People: A Systemic Approach (The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series)

✍ Scribed by Eleanor Anderson (editor), Glenda Fredman (editor), Stott Joshua (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 300
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The authors of this volume take as their starting point "striking moments" in their practice with older people, their families and other practitioners. They integrate these with current systemic thinking to offer new perspectives on working with older people in a range of physical health, mental health and social care contexts. This book is practice led and contains a wealth of examples that will be familiar both to practitioners working with older people and to older people themselves and their families. The authors, all experienced clinicians, place an emphasis on how systemic and narrative approaches might relate to these real world dilemmas and point to ways forward in working with older people in a world where social isolation, ageism and discrimination are commonplace.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
FOREWORD
WHO ARE WE IN THIS WORK?
CHAPTER ONE Introduction: being with older people—a systemic approach
CHAPTER TWO How do we begin? Working with older people and their significant systems
CHAPTER THREE Using our selves in work with older people
CHAPTER FOUR Creating contexts for talking and listening where older people feel comfortable and respected
CHAPTER FIVE Older people and their significant systems: meeting with families and networks
CHAPTER SIX Working with older people in contexts of difference and discrimination
CHAPTER SEVEN Moving from problems to possibilities with older people
CHAPTER EIGHT Sustaining the ethics of systemic practice in contexts of risk and diagnosis
CHAPTER NINE Introducing systemic approaches into our services for older people
CHAPTER TEN How do we end? Drawing our work with older people to a close
AFTERWORDS Working with elders: inspiring the young
INDEX