| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 397 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Issues -- Narrative foreclosure in later life: possibilities and limits / Mark Freeman -- Memory, metaphor, and meaning: reading for wisdom in the stories of our lives / William L. Randall -- Narrative events and biographical construction in old age / Jaber F. Gubrium -- Inventing yourself: how older adults deal with the pressure of late-modern identity construction / Frits de Lange -- In waves of time, space, and self: the dwelling-place of age in Virginia Woolf's The waves / Rishi Goyal and Rita Charon -- Narrative frame in discourse on aging: understanding facts and values behind public policy / Phillip G. Clark -- Investigations -- Power of stories left untold: narratives of Nazi followers / Stephen Marks -- Young bodies, old bodies, and stories of the athletic self / Cassandra Phoenix -- Raging grannies: narrative construction of gender and aging / Linda Caissie -- Narrative and gender differences: how men and women interpret their lives / Patricia O-Neill, James E. Birren and Cheryl Svensson -- Telling stories: how do expressions of self differ in a writing group versus a reminiscence group? / Kate de Medeiros -- Mnëemë and anamnësis: the contribution of involuntary reminiscences to the construction of a narrative self in older age / Phileppe Cappeliez and Jeffrey Dean Webster -- Achieving narrative coherence following traumatic war experience: the role of social support / Karen Burnell, Peter Coleman, and Nigel Hunt -- Using self-defining memories in couples therapy with older adults / Jefferson A. Singer and Beata Labunko Messier -- Interventions -- On suffering, loss and the journey to life: Tai Chi as narrative chare / Gary Kenyon -- Older adults in search of new stories: measuring the effects of life review on coherence and integration in autobiographical narratives / Thijs Tromp -- Reminiscence interventions: bringing narrative gerontology into practice / Ernst Bohlmeijer and Gerben Westerhof -- Life review using autobiographical retrieval: a protocol for training depressed residential home inhabitants in recalling specific personal memories / Bas Steunenberg and Ernst Bohlmeijer -- "Green and gray": an educational program to enhance contact between younger and older adults by means of lifestories / Gerben M. Ubels -- Implementation of narrative care in The Netherlands; coordinating mangement, institutional, and personal narratives / Gerdienke M. Ubels -- Asking the right questions: enabling persons with dementia to speak for themselves / Marie-Elise van den Brand-van Heek -- Ripple effect: a story of the transformational nature of narrative care / Daphne Noonan -- Afterword -- Toward a narrative turn in health care / Ernst Bohlmeijer, Gary Kenyon, and William L. Randall. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Geriatric psychiatry.
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Geriatric psychiatry. |
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Narrative therapy.
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Narrative therapy. |
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Gerontology -- Biographical methods.
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Gerontology -- Biographical methods. |
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Reminiscing in old age.
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Reminiscing in old age. |
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Autobiographical memory.
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Autobiographical memory. |
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Geriatric Psychiatry. |
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Narration. |
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Aged -- psychology. |
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Mental Recall. |
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Psychotherapy -- methods. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Kenyon, Gary M.
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Bohlmeijer, Ernst, 1965-
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Randall, William Lowell, 1950-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Storying later life. New York : Oxford University Press, 2011 9780195397956 (DLC) 2010015287 (OCoLC)608687371 |
| ISBN |
9780199842674 (electronic book) |
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0199842671 (electronic book) |
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9780195397956 (hardback) |
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0195397959 (hardback) |
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