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INTRODUCTION• My Story• Your Story

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Books I Recommend• Barusuch, A.S. (2008). Love Stories of

Later Life: A Narrative Approach to Understanding Romance. NY: Oxford University Press.

• Fink, M. Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Guide for Professionals and Their Patients. NY: Oxford University Press.

• Nezu, A. et al. (2000) Practitioners Guide to Empirically Based Measures of Depression. NY: Kluwer.

• Salzman, C. (2001). Psychiatric Medications for Older Adults. NY: Guilford Press.

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Depression related to Aging• Reactive Depression – mild depressions that arise as a result of a loss or accumulations of losses.• Clinical Depression – out of proportion to the cause with symptoms that persist beyond the usual time and interfere with normal functioning.• Endogenous Depression – a state of deep melancholy unrelated to an obvious cause, which may be more severe and more frequent as they grow older.• Involutional Depression – associated with life-span problems and biological deterioration during the middle years that may be reactivated in old age.

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Issues related • Genetics and Family• Gender (Women more often

than Men)• Living Alone• Physical Illness• Medication• Race• SES

SES Health Life Satisfaction

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Contemporary AnalysisNeeds

1. Inclusion: the need to be recognized and to belong, to share experiences and ideas, to feel that the self is significant and worthwhile

2. Affection: the need for intimate emotional attachments, to feel that the self is lovable for both nurturance and support

3. Control: the need for public esteem in order to feel that the self is competent and responsible.

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Traditional AnalysisNeeds (Durkheim)

Anomic(very rapid change in society)

Egoistic (very Altruistic (verylow level of high level

solidarity) solidarity)

Fatalistic(almost no change in society)

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Two Scenarios

• The Story• The Film

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