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INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION. My Story Your Story. Books I Recommend. Barusuch, A.S. (2008). Love Stories of Later Life: A Narrative Approach to Understanding Romance. NY: Oxford University Press.

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INTRODUCTION

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  1. INTRODUCTION My Story Your Story

  2. Books I Recommend • Barusuch, A.S. (2008). Love Stories of Later Life: A Narrative Approach to Understanding Romance. NY: Oxford University Press. • Fink, M. Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Guide for Professionals and Their Patients. NY: Oxford University Press. • Nezu, A. et al. (2000) Practitioners Guide to Empirically Based Measures of Depression. NY: Kluwer. • Salzman, C. (2001). Psychiatric Medications for Older Adults. NY: Guilford Press.

  3. Depression related to Aging Reactive Depression – mild depressions that arise as a result of a loss or accumulations of losses. Clinical Depression – out of proportion to the cause with symptoms that persist beyond the usual time and interfere with normal functioning. Endogenous Depression – a state of deep melancholy unrelated to an obvious cause, which may be more severe and more frequent as they grow older. Involutional Depression – associated with life-span problems and biological deterioration during the middle years that may be reactivated in old age.

  4. Issues related • Genetics and Family • Gender (Women more often than Men) • Living Alone • Physical Illness • Medication • Race • SES SES  Health  Life Satisfaction

  5. Contemporary AnalysisNeeds • Inclusion: the need to be recognized and to belong, to share experiences and ideas, to feel that the self is significant and worthwhile • Affection: the need for intimate emotional attachments, to feel that the self is lovable for both nurturance and support • Control: the need for public esteem in order to feel that the self is competent and responsible.

  6. Traditional AnalysisNeeds (Durkheim) Anomic (very rapid change in society) Egoistic (very Altruistic (very low level of high level solidarity) solidarity) Fatalistic (almost no change in society)

  7. Two Scenarios • The Story • The Film

  8. Comments andQuestions

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