This interdisciplinary book offers a relational perspective to dementia care drawing on attachment theory and practice. Relevant to professionals and the general public alike, it brings together innovative research and practice in psychotherapy and the creative arts with the lived experience of being a carer. Indeed, the book includes insights from professional and personal experience throughout. It also provides exclusive access to Josh Appignanesi’s short film, Ex Memoria, about his grandmother’s experience of dementia, poignantly portrayed by Sara Kestelman. Chapters include the experience of caring for a sister with dementia; the importance of an attachment perspective in theory and practice; a new approach to understanding the possible origins of dementia in trauma; contemporary understandings from clinical and research arenas; the description of a leading-edge project providing psychotherapeutic work; and an innovative creative arts and reminiscence European-wide family intervention for those living with dementia.Written in accessible language, Dementia: An Attachment Approach will be of great interest to people living with dementia, as well as those working with, and caring for, people with dementia in a variety of contexts including nurses, doctors and psychiatrists, clinical and counselling psychologists, social workers, health and social care workers, family carers and psychotherapists, as well as creative arts practitioners and policymakers.
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This interdisciplinary book presents a relational approach to dementia by bringing together innovative research and practice in psychotherapy and creative arts with the lived experience of being a carer to offer an informative perspective that focuses on the theoretical and practical contribution of attachment theory to dementia care.
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Contributors Introduction: Setting the Scene Angela CotterReflections on the Film Ex Memoria (2006)Josh AppignanesiPoetry Sara KestelmanAn Attachment Approach to Understanding and Living Well with Dementia Kate WhiteContemporary Understanding of the Aetiology, Diagnosis and Treatment Approaches in Relation to DementiaSusie M. D. HenleyShadow of Loss Hypothesis - Could Attachment be the Missing Link in Dementia Research?Sir Richard Bowlby Dementia: Childhood Attachment and LossJane SherwoodThe Role of Reminiscence Groups in the Care of People with Dementia and their FamiliesPam Schweitzer My Sister, DisappearingHazel LeventhalTherapeutic Work with People with Dementia using an Attachment, Psychoanalytic and Person-Centred Approach: The Talking Therapies Project, a Department of Health and Age UK InitiativeAnastasia PatrikiouReflections on Exploring Attachment, Memory Loss and Ageing: A Conference held on 20th Sept 2014Valerie Sinason
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781138327030
Publisert
2018-09-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
362 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, UP, 06, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
144