The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers (eBook)

Looking After Yourself and Your Family While Helping an Aging Parent

Barry J. Jacobs (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2006
261 Seiten
The Guilford Press (Verlag)
978-1-60623-793-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Caring for a parent whose health is in decline turns the world upside down. Whether you're tired of clashes with siblings, frustrated that your parent no longer seems to appreciate your help, or confused by ambivalent feelings, you're not alone. Empathic guidance from an expert whos been there can help. Psychologist and caregiving specialist Barry Jacobs provides practical tips and coping strategies in this compassionate book. Dr. Jacobs highlights seven key psychological tasks that can help you succeed as a caregiver without losing ground in other areas of your life--and gives you clear advice for accomplishing them. Learn ways that you and your loved ones can grow closer and stronger as you navigate one of life's most difficult passages.

Autor

Barry J. Jacobs, PsyD, works with couples and families coping with serious health problems. He has faculty appointments at Temple University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Widener University, and is the Director of Behavioral Sciences for the Crozer-Keystone Family Medicine Residency Program in Springfield, Pennsylvania. He is also a widely published journalist who has written extensively for The Village Voice and other publications. Currently, he writes an advice column for Take Care!, the quarterly newsletter of the National Family Caregivers Association and edits the In Sickness & Health column for the journal Families, Systems & Health. He lives with his wife and their two children in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Inhalt

Prologue1. First Days2. Defining Commitments3. Utilizing Support4. Handling Sacrifice5. Weighing Hope and Acceptance, Fantasy and Reality6. Fostering Awareness and Flexibility7. Protecting Intimacy8. Sustaining the Spirit9. Last DaysEpilogue: Caregiving's AftermathResources

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.3.2006
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Pflege ► Fachpflege ► Neurologie / Psychiatrie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Adult • aging • Alzheimer&#39 • Alzheimer's • Cancer • Caregivers • Caregiving • carers • children • Death • dementia • Disease • Dying • Eldercare • Families • Family • Geriatrics • Gerontology • Grief • Health • Hospice • Illness • Parents • Psychology • relationships • Retirement • S • self-care • Self-Help • Siblings • Stress • "substance abuse, behavior change, psychotherapy, interventions, addictions, ambivalence, resistance, therapy, counseling field, counseling students, interviewing skills, meth addiction, life coaching, helping professionals, therapeutic relationship, helping professions, professional counselor, core concepts, social workers, transpersonal, rationales, person-centered, exam, cognitive-behavioral, court-ordered, modality, clinicians, evidence-based, revisions, trainers, therapists, counselors, seminar, exerci • therapy
• ISBN-10: 1-60623-793-4 / 1606237934
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60623-793-9 / 9781606237939