Television in the nursing home : a case study of the media consumption routines and strategies of nursing home residents

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    • Hajjar, Wendy J.

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Television in the nursing home : a case study of the media consumption routines and strategies of nursing home residents

Wendy J. Hajjar

Haworth Press, c1998

  • hbk. : alk. paper
  • pbk. : alk. paper

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-148) and index

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hbk. : alk. paper ISBN 9780789002938

内容説明

Television in the Nursing Home: A Case Study of the Media Consumption Routines and Strategies of Nursing Home Residents is a three-stage ethnographic study of media use by the elderly in long-term care facilities. This research concludes that watching television is the most prevalent and pervasive activity for patients. Activity directors can now learn how television and media can offer diversion, enhancement of personality, awareness, and sociability to their patients and offers suggestions on roommate coordination, selection of appropriate media, and communication resources. Containing the latest knowledge involving communication and gerontology, Television in the Nursing Home will help you offer programs that will meet the demands of an expanding elderly population.Developed as a perspective for examining patterns of social interaction, Television in the Nursing Home gives suggestions on how you can use the media to create new activities for patients, maximizing the television as a resource for the elderly. You will gain valuable insight on: proof to dispel the myth that television in long-term patient care causes withdrawal and depression a breakthrough in the treatment of media and aging, enhancing media-based activities and the use and purchase of electronic equipment for care facilities studies on how and why television is the most accessible medium of communication information for the development of new media designed specifically for use by the elderly creation of media-centered activities that recognize the potential for therapeutic use of communication technologies in the nursing homeThe research presented in Television in the Nursing Home establishes the fact that television consumption, once thought to be problematic, should be seen as desirable and necessary. This important book also proves how television is a resource that provides comfort, self-expression, and sociality. This first-ever study will convince you that television and media use in long-term care is beneficial and essential to the wellness of your patients.

目次

Contents Introduction Stage One: Entering the Field Aging and Media Use Television and Social Life in the Nursing Home Ethnographic Methodology A Day in the Nursing Home Summary of Stage One Stage Two: Narrowing the Focus Program Preferences and Routines Roommates and Coordination Key Informants Summary of Stage Two Stage Three: Analysis and Conclusions The Viewing Stance Control and Selectivity Minimizing the Negatives Storytelling: Accentuating the Positive Conclusions and Recommendations Bibliography Index
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pbk. : alk. paper ISBN 9780789002945

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Provide effective counseling to members of single-parent families With more than half of all first marriages ending in divorce, it's time to re-think the notion that divorce means failure. Therapy with Single Parents focuses on the strengths of the single-parent family rather than its weaknesses, stressing the need to look at the socially constructed norms, values, and definitions associated with marriage and family in order to provide effective counseling. This unique book examines experiences that are common to single parents and presents interventive strategies for treating single-parent family issues, drawing on clinical case studies to provide technical knowledge in everyday language. Current research shows that single parents account for 27 percent of family households that include children under 18 and that the number of single mothers in the United States more than tripled between 1970 and 2000. Therapy with Single Parents challenges outdated notions that the single-parent family is somehow deficient and associated with adjustment problems in children. It doesn't ignore the anger, pain, sadness, and guilt experienced by many members of single parent families but offers therapeutic considerations from a more balanced approach. The book examines the social, psychological, and sexual experiences of newly single parents and addresses the ups and downs they'll face in dealing with schools, the workplace, and social services. Therapy with Single Parents examines: social and psychological differences between divorce and widowhood cognitive-behavioral principles of single-parent families what children can learn from divorce dealing with the ghosts of past relationships relationship rules dealing with adult children and extended families the effect of change in divorcing families the feminization of poverty the therapeutic value of social networks Therapy with Single Parents is an invaluable resource for psychologists, professional counselors, social workers, and marriage and family therapists. The book presents a thorough, in-depth examination of the single-parent family system as a viable, healthy family form.

目次

Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIENCES OF THE SINGLE AGAIN Chapter 1. Single Again Through Divorce Historical Divorce Rates Interpreting Divorce Rates Social Definitions and Reactions to Divorce Psychological Reactions to Divorce Chapter 2. Single Again Through Widowhood Psychological Differences Between Divorce and Widowhood U.S. Widowhood Rates Social Aspects of Widowhood Psychological Aspects of Widowhood Therapy Strategies Chapter 3. Single-Parent Family Issues General Concern Among Single-Parent Families Cognitive-Behavioral Principles Therapy Strategies Summary Chapter 4. Resiliency and Competence in Children Experiencing Divorce The Competent Divorce Factors Associated with the Competent Divorce What Children Can Learn from Divorce Summary Chapter 5. Redefining Relationships The Ghost versus Reality: Stress Reductions The Ghost versus Reality: Relationship Issues Relationship Rules Perpetual Divorce and Ambiguous Loss Loss and the Family Role of the Professional Therapist Therapy Strategies PART II: SEXUAL EXPERIENCES OF THOSE WHO ARE SINGLE AGAIN Chapter 6. Relational and Sexual Considerations After Divorce Issues in Sexuality Sexually Single Again Sexual Outlets Incidence of Sexual Intercourse Frequency of Sexual Intercourse Number of Partners Initiating Sex Quality of Sex Sex and Single Parents Therapy Strategies Chapter 7. Relational and Sexual Considerations After Widowhood Sexual Considerations of Widowhood HIV/AIDS Therapy Strategies Summary PART III: SINGLE AGAIN AND DEALING WITH THE LARGER SYSTEMS Chapter 8. Interacting with School Personnel The Pathology Assumption Academic Resilience Challenging Reality The School Psychoeducational Models Self-Fulfilling Prophesies Failure Analysis The Family The School and the Family Role of the Professional Therapist Therapy Strategies Chapter 9. Single Parents, Work, and Welfare The Feminization of Poverty Poverty and Psychological Distress Therapeutic Value of Support Networks Role of the Professional Therapist Therapy Strategies PART IV: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION THERAPY WITH THE SINGLE-PARENT FAMILY Chapter 10. The Single-Parent Family and Social Constructions Social Constructionist Theory Social Constructionist Therapy Theoretical Concepts Therapy Strategies Summary Chapter 11. Conclusions Reexamining the Pathology Assumption The Myth of Pathology Interpersonal and Systemic Circularity Summary Bibliography Annotated Bibliography and Internet Resources Index Reference Notes Included

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