Overview

Human stories are the core of identity and meaning. This book is an invitation to the engaging and reforming power of telling stories. It is also an invitation to heal the story of health care for older adults by improving the communication between professionals in medicine, psychology, and religion. At any age the process of genuinely listening and expressing hopes and fears is an intimacy rarely matched in human interaction. Life stories can be told, revised, and rewritten through psychotherapy and improved by a health care which integrates the best of medicine, religion, and psychology. This book invites health care reform by renewing old principles. Through clinical experience, research, and listening to seniors and their families, life stories can be retold to promote healthy treatment and healthy aging. This book will be of interest to students and professionals in psychology, medicine, nursing, religion, and social work.

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Author:   Thomas Peake
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.361kg
ISBN:  

9780275959227

ISBN 10:   0275959228
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   28 February 1998
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Twice Told Tales: Lives Recalled and Lives Renewed Considerations for Health Professionals A Tale of Three Cultures: Medicine, Psychology and Religion by T. H. Peake and K. L. Blair Healthy Models: Principles and Places Healthy Stories and Aging Well Story Tending: Leit Motifs, Hunches, Hopes and Fears by T. H. Peake and S. G. Rosenzweig Healing and Illness Stories Health Care Systems in the United States and United Kingdom: A Telling Story by T. H. Peake, K. L. Sachs, R. M. Vidaver, C. Ballard, and J. S. Rain Implications for Health Professionals References Index

Reviews

Peake's compassionate, insightful, and pragmatic approach presents disease not as an isolated process, but as an experience; an experience shaped and reacted to through personal narrative tales....[This book] also elaborates upon important considerations in working with older adults...[and it also] recognizes and demonstrates that problems often associated with aging are multidimensional (physical, psychological, and spiritual) and multisystemic (individual, family, community, cultural, and political)....[Finally] an overabidding value of this book is that it offers current and future policymakers and healthcare providers...views and concepts from which newer models for helping the aged can evolve. -Dr. Larry W. Dupree Department of Aging and Mental Health The Florida Mental Health Institute University of South Florida

Author Information

THOMAS H. PEAKE is Professor of Psychology at Florida Tech and an adjunct professor at the Florida Mental Health Institute. Licensed in three states and England, he has trained health professionals and practiced clinical psychology for over 20 years. His publication and practice areas include books and articles in psychotherapy, clinical training, medical psychology, couples therapy and healthy aging.

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