Successful Aging Through the Life Span or The Alcoholic Family in Recovery

Successful Aging Through the Life Span: Intergenerational Issues in Health

Author: May L Wykl

This book explores concepts and practices for productive aging: What factors contribute to successful aging? What is the role of exercise and nutrition? What is the role of children and adults in interaction with elders?

The chapters identify the best practices for successful aging, examine trends in intergenerational caregiving, and define roles and responsibilities across the life span. Topics addressed include:

• how to maximize productive engagement of older adults
• how multigenerational issues impact successful aging
• the ways in which a learning environment can promote intergenerational relationships.

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Reviewer: David O. Staats, MD (University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center)
Description: This multiauthored book presents the papers from a 2002 gerontology conference held in Cleveland. It uses an intergenerational perspective to look at contemporary gerontology.
Purpose: Its purpose is to discuss intergenerational aspects of aging from the individual's perspective, from the family's caregiving perspective, and from society's perspective as well. These are useful ideas.
Audience: Gerontologists and social planners and nurses are the primary audience for this book. The papers presented here are all written by credible experts.
Features: The book is in three sections: the implications of longevity from an intergenerational perspective, notions of aging successfully, and caring interactions across the generations.
Assessment: It is refreshing to read a book whose emphasis is not medical. The chapters on how educational theory can be applied to caring for disabled older persons are novel and engaging. That older persons and their caregivers live in a society, enmeshing levels of capacity, knowledge, and ages gives a perspective of the future challenges of an aging society.

Rating

2 Stars from Doody

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The Alcoholic Family in Recovery

Author: Stephanie Brown

This book explores the process of recovery from addiction as it affects the entire family, presenting an innovative model for understanding and treating families navigating this difficult period. The authors draw upon extensive clinical and research experience to demonstrate how families can be helped to regroup after abstinence, weather periods of emotional upheaval, and find their way to establishing a more stable, yet flexible, family system. Filled with vital therapeutic insights and conceptual guideposts, this book is an essential tool for clinicians from a range of disciplinary backgrounds. Offering an invaluable systems perspective on what is far too often seen as an individual problem, this book will enhance the work of addictions treatment specialists, couple and family therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, counselors, and nurses.

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Explores the process of recovery as it affects the entire family, presenting an innovative model for understanding and treating families in recovery. Overviews the family recovery process, identifying key stages and domains, and highlights the therapeutic tasks and pitfalls that characterize each stage, giving suggestions for expanding the therapist's role to include psychoeducation and supportive counseling. Experiences of four families are shared in first-hand accounts. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

Pt. I	Introduction
1	What Happens When the Drinking Stops?	3
2	The Developmental Process of Recovery	16
Pt. II	Stories of Families in Recovery
3	Transition and Early Recovery: The Corwins and the Turners	39
4	From Early Recovery to Ongoing Recovery: The Hendersons and the Warners	60
Pt. III	A Framework for Assessment
5	Assessing Family Functioning: Domains of Experience	81
6	Stages of Recovery: Drinking, Transition, Early Recovery, and Ongoing Recovery	100
7	Factors That Influence Recovery	123
Pt. IV	A Developmental Model of Family Recovery
8	The Drinking Stage	149
9	Transition for Couples and Families	181
10	Early Recovery for Couples and Families	218
11	Ongoing Recovery for Couples and Families	252
	Epilogue	285
	Glossary	287
	Appendices	291
	References	303
	Index	309