Being with Older People

Eleanor Anderson was a highly specialist systemic psychotherapist in the older adult mental health service at St Charles Hospital, London, where she pioneered systemic approaches for eleven years. Now an older adult herself and semi-retired, she supervises, consults and works voluntarily with the Peace Hospice Bereavement Service in Watford. Glenda Fredman is consultant clinical psychologist and systemic psychotherapist with Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. She is a tutor / trainer with the KCC Foundation, a freelance trainer, and author of 'Death Talk: Conversations with Children and Families' and 'Transforming Emotion: Conversations in Counselling and Psychotherapy'. Joshua Stott is a clinical psychologist working with older people in Camden and Islington. He is also clinical tutor / joint co-ordinator of the 'working with older people' curriculum for the clinical psychology doctorate at University College London.

Foreword , Who are we in this Work? , Introduction: being with older people—a systemic approach , How do we begin? Working with older people and their significant systems , Using our selves in work with older people , Creating contexts for talking and listening where older people feel comfortable and respected , Older people and their significant systems: meeting with families and networks , Working with older people in contexts of difference and discrimination , Moving from problems to possibilities with older people , Sustaining the ethics of systemic practice in contexts of risk and diagnosis , Introducing systemic approaches into our services for older people , How do we end? Drawin our work with older people to a close , Afterwords Working with elders: inspiring the young