关注老人心理健康提高老人生活质量

随着经济社会的迅速发展和人口老龄化形势的日益严峻,老年人的心理亚健康问题引起了社会的广泛关注.人们普遍认识到:要提高老年人的生活质量,就不仅要保障老年人的物质生活,而且也要关注老年人的精神生活,改善老年人的心理调适能力,提高老年人的心理健康水平.     

回应老年照顾的多元化需求:社工介入传统机构的路径

随着改革开放以后经济的发展、社会的变迁以及人口老龄化的加剧,中国老年人对社会提供照顾的需求日益增加。如何满足入住机构的老年人的心理和社会需求,进     

农村老年人精神生活的缺失与社区工作的介入——基于苏北地区的调查

本研究以苏北乡镇为例,分析老年人的精神生活与心理需求的现况。研究发现,配偶关系、代际关系和社区互动关系会直接影响老年人的精神生活质量;农村老年人对于精神文化生活存在着强烈的需求,希望通过参与社区活动的方式获取更多的情感支持和精神慰藉。农村社区工作者应当帮助老年人重建角色认知,运用小组工作的方法,扩展老年人社交和精神生活的机会与空间,以维护老年人的社会联结度和生活满足感。     

高校心理咨询基本模式初探

改革开放以来，我国的社会生活发生了重大变化，尤其是计划经济转向市场经济时期，人才竞争日益激烈，社会发展速度加快，贫富悬殊加大，多种价值观并存冲突，个人理想与社会现实相距甚远等等，给高校大学生带来沉重的心理负担和心理挑战。同时，随着社会进步、教育程度的...     

农村老年人精神生活的缺失与社区工作的介入——基于苏北地区的调查

本研究以苏北乡镇为例,分析老年人的精神生活与心理需求的现况。研究发现,配偶关系、代际关系和社区互动关系会直接影响老年人的精神生活质量;农村老年人对于精神文化生活存在着强烈的需求,希望通过参与社区活动的方式获取更多的情感支持和精神慰藉。农村社区工作者应当帮助老年人重建角色认知,运用小组工作的方法,扩展老年人社交和精神生活的机会与空间,以维护老年人的社会联结度和生活满足感。     

回应老年照顾的多元化需求：社工介入传统机构的路径

随着改革开放以后经济的发展、社会的变迁以及人门老龄化的加剧，中国老年人对社会提供照顾的需求日益增加。如何满足入住机构的老年人的心理和社会需求，进一步提升老年人的生活质量？加强养老机构专业化建设，设立专职社工岗位，提升机构照顾的专业化水平，是回应老人的多元化需求的必由路径。     

日本人口结构的变化趋势及其对社会的影响

日本已经进入低出生率、低死亡率和低自然增长率阶段 ,即进入了日本所说的人口“少子老龄化”阶段。人口结构的变化趋势将影响到日本社会的各个方面。人口的减少和出生率的下降 ,将进一步加速日本的人口老龄化进程 ,对日本社会老年赡养负担及社会保障、对劳动力年龄结构及劳动力供应、对教育领域及产业结构和消费等领域产生诸多影响。日本近些年来试图缓解人口结构变化对社会经济的影响 ,采取改革和充实以老年人为对象的各种制度措施 ,并为提高生育率制定对策。     

居家养老心理关爱服务的困境与思考

居家养老是适应我国人口老龄化实情、符合我国传统文化习俗的一种养老方式,是当前我国养老的主要模式。全面推进居家养老工作,不仅需要给予老年人生活上的帮助,还要对老年人给予精神安慰。意识到老年人心理关爱服务将是未来居家养老服务的重要趋势,江苏经贸职业技术学院开始创建南京市鼓楼区大方巷居家养老服务中心,并将关爱老年心理作为自己的服务特色。     

个案工作在机构养老中的应用探索——以合肥市甲老年公寓为例

一 21世纪是人口老龄化的时代,高龄、空巢和失能老人越来越多,为老社会服务需求日益扩大。老年人是社会中的一个特殊的群体,养老机构中的老年人更为特殊。由于生理机能的衰退,从熟悉的社会环境突然转换到新的相对封闭的环境内,养老机构中老人难免存在生理、心理、经济、社会生活以及宗教信仰等问题。     

新时期老年群体的思想政治工作

江泽民同志指出：党的思想政治工作面临的形势更复杂，任务更加繁重，工作更艰巨了。老年群体的思想状况，要求我们不断加强和改进思想政治工作，增强思想政治工作的科技含量，要通过研究在各种社会环境和社会实践中，老年人的个体和群体的心理特点、心理变化、心理需要以及行为表现，来做好老年人的思想政治工作。……     

城市社区老人心理健康服务现状调查——来自重庆市主城社区的调查数据

以重庆市主城社区老人为调查对象,从老人的基本情况、心理健康状况、心理健康服务需求、心理服务支持系统等方面的调查数据进行详细分析,得出了家庭、邻里同辈群体是老人心理健康的重要支持系统、需要建立完善的城市社区老人心理健康服务体系等结论。     

Chapter 17. Rural Mental Health

SUMMARY

Mental health services available in many rural communities are too limited in scope and availability to meet the needs of rural citizens. The future of mental health services for the rural poor will be impacted by state government decisions about Medicaid funding priorities. It is important that rural practitioners, especially those that work in the fields of mental health, health, and aging services, engage in advocacy for better coverage of the rural poor and low-income elderly persons. This chapter discusses issues of advocacy related to improving the provision of mental health services to older rural citizens as an important goal in the larger effort to expand and improve rural mental health service delivery throughout the nation.     

城市社区老人心理健康服务现状调查——来自重庆市主城社区的调查数据

以重庆市主城社区老人为调查对象,从老人的基本情况、心理健康状况、心理健康服务需求、心理服务支持系统等方面的调查数据进行详细分析,得出了家庭、邻里同辈群体是老人心理健康的重要支持系统、需要建立完善的城市社区老人心理健康服务体系等结论。     

Overcoming Barriers to Serving the Aging/Mental Health Client

This paper presents a model, based upon a series of state-level initiatives in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for improving coordination between the aging and mental health systems to better serve elderly persons with mental health problems. The mental health needs of the elderly are discussed and service delivery obstacles - systemic, individual, and agency/staff - are reviewed and synthesized. Policy initiatives by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that relate to these issues are presented as a case study, with a focus upon a series of regional conferences held around the state for providers in the aging and mental health networks to encourage better coordination of services. The process and outcomes of these conferences are discussed, together with an analysis of the implications for practice, policy, and teaching.     

Methodology for Discovering and Teaching Countertransference Toward Elderly Clients

Abstract

This article will describe a method that has been effective in helping students, paraprofessional counselors as well as mental health professionals identify countertransference reactions in themselves. It offers instructors and clinical supervisors a way to teach about countertransference toward elderly clients. This technique can be utilized in a variety of work settings such as classrooms, mental health clinics, multi-purpose centers for older adults and private practice.     

Barriers to the Use of Mental Health Services by African-American and Hispanic Elderly Persons

Abstract

This study discusses barriers to the utilization of community-based mental health services by African-American and Hispanic elderly persons. The study sample consists of “key Informants,” chosen because they were knowledgeable about the mental health needs and use of mental health services by African-American or Hispanic elderly persons. Principal component analysis using orthogonal rotation was conducted on the 23 item barrier scale and identified three levels of service barriers for the entire sample and for each subsample of African-American and Hispanic informants. Based upon the study findings, a number of strategies are offered to improve Utilization and overcome service delivery barriers.     

Socio‐Economic Factors and Mental Health of Young People in India and China: An Elusive Link with Globalization

Globalization and its related social, cultural, and economic changes have significant mental health outcomes for young people. However, mental health disorders among youth are seldom included in the range of problems linked to globalization. It is imperative that these multifaceted associations are considered in light of the substantial and increasing burden of disease caused by mental illness, particularly in Asian countries, which are comparatively young and in next few decades will be the major sources of the growth of world’s young population. The evidence reviewed in this study makes an argument that globalization has increased [relative] poverty and deprivation, social and income inequality, migration, occupational stress, educational competition, and educated unemployment in India and China. Simultaneously there is evidence which shows that these variables are causally linked with mental health of young people. Altogether, these phenomena are accompanied by higher rates of suicide among lower class, migrant, and student youth. This substantiates the proposition that globalization has significant consequences for the mental health of young people. Some interventions for debate and discussion are considered.     

Impact of a multicomponent support services program on informal caregivers of adults aging with disabilities

A multicomponent support services program was implemented for veterans aging with disabilities and their informal caregivers (n = 42 dyads). Caregiver outcomes (satisfaction, physical and mental health status, burden, and benefits) were evaluated before and after program use. Caregivers reported significant improvements in mental health post-program. Caregivers who provided care to individuals with impaired physical health experienced meaningful improvements in burden after the support services were rendered. Supporting caregiver health status through such programs is vital to preserve noninstitutional long-term care for persons aging with disabilities, particularly when care is provided over many years to an individual with physical impairments.     

The Senior Outreach Program of Park Ridge Mental Health

Abstract

Availability and accessibility of mental health services for the elderly is woefully inadequate, failing to recognize the diversity of needs in the older adult population. Stigma, confusing and exclusionary insurance regulations and restrictive mental health center policies have both limited and discouraged treatment interventions. Through innovative case finding, programming and funding arrangements, the Senior Outreach program of Park Ridge Mental Health in Rochester, New York, has proven effective in identifying and providing outreach mental health services to elderly individuals. The program utilizes a human services agency model, yet operates within a large heath care system as part of a continuum of psycho-geriatric services.     

珠三角中青年人的养老负担及养老观念分析——以中山市为调研个案

面对“未富先老”的人口老龄化，尤其是4-2-1家庭的大量出现，养老负担是一个日益沉重的社会问题。即使在经济发达的珠三角地区，家庭养老仍是绝大多数老人的养老方式。子女在父母的养老生活中仍起着举足轻重的作用。目前珠三角地区中、青年人群对自己的养老负担还并不觉得重，但他们的养老观念略有差异。