Counselling and Psychotherapy with Older People

PAUL TERRY is a lecturer in Counselling at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has taught psychodynamic counselling for many years at the same time whilst practising as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and a Specialty Lead for Older People in the NHS.

PART I: DIRECT FACE TO FACE THERAPY.- To Love Life and Mourn its End.- Brief Interventions .- Longer Individual Therapy.- Therapy With an Older Man Who Had Lost His Speech.- Older Couples.- Groups for Very Frail Older People and Their Carers.- PART II: INDIRECT THERAPEUTIC CONSULTATIONS.- Ageist Attitudes and Behaviours.- Individual Consultations with Carers.- Support Groups for Care Staff.- Teaching and Learning about Therapy with Older People.