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Caregiver family therapy : empowering families to meet the challenges of aging / Sara Honn Qualls and Ashley A. Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Qualls, Sarah Honn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caregivers.
- Care of the sick--Psychological aspects.
- Care of the sick.
- Older people--Care.
- Older people.
- Family psychotherapy.
- Physical Description:
- x, 280 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2013]
- Summary:
- Caring for an older family member with physical or cognitive impairments is a difficult, strenuous process that brings challenges as well as rewards. Caregivers often struggle to balance their own needs with those of the care recipient. Their relationships with family, friends, coworkers, and even the care recipient can suffer as well. As a result, family members often seek professional help to guide them through the caregiving process. This book presents caregiver family therapy (CFT), a systems approach to working with families that care for an aging adult. In CFT, the therapist helps family members identify challenges and resources, clarify values and strategies for addressing each challenge, restructure family roles, and balance caregiving with self-care. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Foundations of caregiver family therapy
- Naming and framing the caregiving problem
- Structuring care
- Role structuring
- Role reverberations
- Caregiver self-care
- Widening the lens and anticipating the future
- Case studies
- Pragmatic issues in practicing caregiver family therapy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1433812142
- 9781433812149
- OCLC:
- 793503422
- Publisher Number:
- 99954040327
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