Thanatology 2200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Child, Life Review, Therapeutic Relationship

• School: Western University
• Department: Thanatology
• Course: Thanatology 2200
• Professor: Eunice Gorman

Document Summary

Understand the variety of losses that may occur in older adulthood and how they differ from adult losses in other life phases. Describe how the developmental tasks of older adulthood influence how an older adult might cope with grief and loss. Older adults defined as those 70 and older. Older adults usually show a strong sense of well-being. Brings sensory losses in hearing, eyesight, sense of smell and taste, and joint degeneration. Despite cognitive losses among older adults, neurobiology, and brain imaging techniques have demonstrated that learning and brain development are aided through exposure to new experiences and forming new relationships, including the therapeutic relationship. Also can be descrived as one of maintaining self-esteem in the face of the biophsychosocial challenges of aging. Lr involves guided discussions that allow the participant to describe varied events in life that may be related chronologically, but often are guided by emotions.