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PCE2006
7th World Conference for
Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling
July 12–16, 2006, Potsdam, Germany
Topic:
The Older Ones, handicapped persons
Symposia, Paper Sessions, Workshops, Round Table Discussion Groups:
Tanja Kalytta, Christine Küssner & Gabriele Wilz
Technical University Berlin, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology,
Franklinstr. 28/29, D - 10587 Berlin, Germany, phone: +49 30 314 29438,
e-mail: kalytta@gp.tu-berlin.de,
kuessner@gp.tu-berlin.de,
gabriele.wilz@gp.tu-berlin.de
Abstract:
Dementia is one of the most frequent diseases that leads to family caregiving. Therefore, counseling with family caregivers and supporting of caregivers is a very important social issue.
We present a specific interview guideline that is made for counseling with caregivers of persons with dementia. The interview focuses on problems, resources and coping strategies.
It is designed to support family caregivers and to induce processes of positive behavioral changes. A precondition of a constructive change is that counseling implies a reduction of burden. Furthermore, those behavioral changes are based on a stable therapeutic relationship between the counselor and the caregiver. A helping relationship depends on a cooperative and trustworthy atmosphere. This kind of counseling with caregivers encourages them to take part in other interventions, like support groups.
Besides support functions, the interview implicates significant diagnostic aspects. It helps the counselor to understand the individual everyday life of the caregiver.
The present study describes topics of counseling with caregivers in detail. It concerns the following: interpersonal relationship between the caregiver and the person with dementia, processes of personality and lifestyle changes, coping with strain, using resources, care motivation and future perspectives. The specific interview guideline will lead to a more complex understanding of the individual everyday life, daily hassle and subjective perception of family caregivers. Advantages of the interview guideline and mental and physical health problems of family caregivers are shown on the basis of 80 interviews.
Izumi Ogata
Graduate School of International Culture, Kyusyu Sangyo University, Japan
Abstract:
In Japan, nowadays over 1.5 million elderly with dementia live in elderly facilities such as home nursing care, hospital nursing home, day care center.
The necessity of their psychotherapeutic care which is how to enhance well-being and QOL those have been singled out.
In the study of search the group reminiscence drawing approach among mild stage to moderate stage’s elderly with dementia in assisted-pay nursing home where is
"to be home last". After the search it shows that the group reminiscence drawing approach combined reminiscence and drawing approach can be effective program by coloring and shaping that lead to be visualization by nonverbal drawing not only mumble and talking the reminisced image from the sensible stimulus by natural things of Japanese peculiar four seasons.
It also makes elderly with dementia affluent in their internal experiences.
Coming up personal continuity with enjoyment from past to now can facilitate the touch of the theory of experiencing.
Furthermore the process the group reminiscence drawing approach toward emotional stability of the elderly with dementia and progressive interpersonal exchange is categorized 12 steps of by introducing sensible stimulus by natural things of Japanese peculiar four seasons.
Marlis Pörtner
psychologist, psychotherapist, author. SGGT/SPV
Abstract:
The concepts of person-centered care for people with special needs and aged persons described in my books have met a surprisingly wide response outside person-centered
circles. They have been integrated into several professional training programs and a considerable number of organizations started to work with and orient their quality standards towards these concepts. These people were not, in the first place, interested in PCA
– which they had either never heard of or misunderstood as an unrealistic "laisser faire" attitude useless for their task
– but in useful, practice-oriented ideas for their work. They found that the concepts described in
"Ernstnehmen, Zutrauen, Verstehen"* were exactly what they were looking for und how they wanted to work. Thus, through the "backdoor", PCA found its way into a field where before it was hardly known. The experience proves how concrete, practice-oriented concepts for specific areas can considerably help the spreading of PCA. It is not a matter of adding other approaches, but of describing concretely, with examples from the practice, what it means to realize person-centered principles in a specific professional field.
The concept will be presented as an example. Participants will discuss needs and possibilities of specifying how PCA can be realized in their particular working area (e.g. other fields than psychotherapy or psychotherapy with special groups of clients).
* Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, 4th revised edition 2004.
English edition: Trust and Understanding. PCCS Books, Llangarron 2000.
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