This book is a follow-up to Arber and Ginn's award winning Connecting Gender and Ageing (1995). It contains original chapters from eminent writers on gender and ageing, addressing newly emergent areas within gender and ageing, including gender identity and masculinity in later life. Early work on gender and ageing was dominated by a focus on older women. The present collection breaks with this tradition by emphasizing changing gender roles and relationships, gender identity and an examination of masculinities in midlife and later life. 
A key theme running through the book is the need to reconceptualize partnership status, in order to understand the implications for women and men of widowhood, divorce and new forms of relationships, such as Living Apart Together (LAT-relationships). Another is the influence of socio-economic circumstances on how ageing is experienced and transitions are negotiated.
 The book illustrates new ways of thinking about old age and indicates policy implications, especially concerning the nature of service provision for older people. It will change the ways in which social scientists conceptualize later life. Written with undergraduate students and researchers in mind, Gender and Ageing: Changing Roles and Relationships will be an invaluable text for those studying social gerontology, sociology of later life, gender studies, health and community care and social policy.

Gender and Ageing: Changing Roles and Relationships (Ageing & Later Life Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Davidson, Kate

Arber, Sara

Ginn, Jay

Social Sciences

Open University Press

This book is a follow-up to Arber and Ginn's award winning Connecting Gender and Ageing (1995). It contains orginal chapters from eminent writers on gender and ageing, addressing newly emergent areas within gender and ageing, including gender identity and masculinity in later life. Early work on gender and ageing was dominated by a focus on older women. The present collection breaks with this tradition by emphasizing changing gender roles and relationships, gender identity and an examination of masculinities in midlife and later life. A theme running through the book is the need to reconceptualize partnership status, in order to understand the implications of both widowhood and divorce for older women and men, as well as new forms of relationships, such as Living Apart Together (LAT-relationships). There is also an underlying focus on how socio-economic circumstances influence the experiences of ageing and the ways transitions are negotiated. Written with undergraduate students and researchers in mind, Gender & Ageing will be an invaluable text for those studying social gerontology, sociology of later life, gender studies, health and community care and social policy.

Gender and Ageing (Ageing & Later Life S.)

Cognitive Therapy for Personality Disorders: A Guide for Clinicians

It is increasingly recognized that a significant number of individuals with personality disorders can benefit from therapy. In this new edition - based on the treatment of over a hundred patients with antisocial and borderline personality disorders - Kate Davidson demonstrates that clinicians using cognitive therapy can reduce a patient’s tendency to deliberately self-harm and to harm others; it also improves their psychological well-being. Case studies and therapeutic techniques are described as well as current evidence from research trials for this group of patients. Cognitive Therapy for Personality Disorders provides a thorough description of how to apply cognitive behavioural therapy to patients who are traditionally regarded as being difficult to treat: those with borderline personality disorders and those with antisocial personality disorders. The book contains detailed descriptions and strategies of how to: <ul>
<li>formulate a case within the cognitive model of personality disorders</li> <li>overcome problems encountered when treating personality disordered patients</li> <li>understand how therapy may develop over a course of treatment.</li>
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This clinician’s guide to cognitive behavioural therapy in the treatment of borderline and antisocial personality disorder will be essential reading for psychiatrists, clinical and counselling psychologists, therapists, mental health nurses, and students on associated training courses.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Routledge

It is increasingly recognized that a significant number of individuals with personality disorders can benefit from therapy. In this new edition - based on the treatment of over a hundred patients with antisocial and borderline personality disorders - Kate Davidson demonstrates that clinicians using cognitive therapy can reduce a patient’s tendency to deliberately self-harm and to harm others; it also improves their psychological well-being. Case studies and therapeutic techniques are described as well as current evidence from research trials for this group of patients. Cognitive Therapy for Personality Disorders provides a thorough description of how to apply cognitive behavioural therapy to patients who are traditionally regarded as being difficult to treat: those with borderline personality disorders and those with antisocial personality disorders. The book contains detailed descriptions and strategies of how to:  formulate a case within the cognitive model of personality disorders overcome problems encountered when treating personality disordered patients understand how therapy may develop over a course of treatment. This clinician’s guide to cognitive behavioural therapy in the treatment of borderline and antisocial personality disorder will be essential reading for psychiatrists, clinical and counselling psychologists, therapists, mental health nurses, and students on associated training courses.

Islands: Contemporary Installations from Australia, Asia, Europe and America

Arts & Photography

National Gallery of Australia

Desmond, Michael

Individual Artists

Thames&Hudson

Islands Contemporary Installations from Australia, Asia, Europe and America

History & Criticism

Australian Govt. Pub. Service

This therapist's guide for the treatment of personality disorders is designed to be used by those who have a good understanding of cognitive therapy. This book leads practitioners in a very practical way through all the stages of therapy, from the first assessment, including initial 'engagement', through all stages up to completion of treatment.Personality disorders are traditionally regarded as difficult to treat, and the use of cognitive therapy is a new and encouraging approach for both the client and therapist. This practical guide is for use by those with a good understnading of cognitive therapy, who are working particularly with clients with antisocial and borderline personality disorders.The introductory chapters give an overview of personality disorders and introduce the best-known cognitive models for these. The key characteristics of cognitive therapy for personality disorders are discussed, highlighting the modifications made to improve the efficacy of treatments.More detailed accounts of techniques are given, enabling the clinician to select the most appropriate approach for each individual case. Finally, the importance of evaluating the therapy and the problems of concluding therapy for both the client and therapist are acknowledged. The final chapter provides a detailed account of a borderline personality case, demonstrating all the stages of therapy from the first meeting through to the completion of treatment.'Gain confidence in your cognitive therapy skills to help those with personality disorders'.Foreword by Aaron T Beck, University Professor of Psychiatry, Pennsylvania, USA.

Cognitive Therapy for Personality Disorders: A Guide for Therapists

CRC-Press

Life After Self-Harm

In many countries there has been an alarming increase in rates of suicide and self-harm, yet the stigma attached to these difficulties often leads to sub-optimal care. Life After Self-Harm: A Guide to the Future is written for individuals who have deliberately harmed themselves. Developed through a major research project the contents of the manual have been informed and shaped by many users and expert professionals. Illustrated with multiple case-histories, it teaches users important skills:  for understanding and evaluating self-harm for keeping safe in crisis for dealing with seemingly insolvable problems for developing coping strategies for re-connecting with life. Health workers who regularly come into contact with individuals who have self-harmed will find the wealth of practical advice in this book extremely valuable for recommendation to patients either as a self-help book, or in the context of brief therapy.

Life After Self-Harm: A Guide to the Future

Self-Help

Schmidt, Ulrike

Death & Grief

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