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What is depression?Everyone feels down or sad sometimes, but these feelings usually pass after a few days.When you havedepression, you have trouble with daily life for weeks at a time. Depression is a serious illness that needs treatment. If left untreated, depression can lead tosuicide. Anxiety and Family Therapy Anxiety …

Systemic family therapy, the most prevalent model of family treatment today, views the individual as an integral component of a unit of organization the family. Systems theory postulates that a person cannot be viewed, nor treated, out of the context in which that person is embedded. This context, the family, …

Here is one of the more significant emergent areas in gerontology. The basic thesis is that people often must “plow under” some of their creative potential in order to fulfill their obligations in the family and the workplace. This chronic suppression of interests and talents may contribute to a vague …

Early in life one must often work to achieve efficacy, control, and confidence. “I can accomplish; I can manage; I can do” are self-judgments that are earned only after many attempts, some of which are miserable failures. Circumstances often compel elderly adults to ask themselves, “Can I still accomplish? Can …

Many associations are found between cognition and anxiety at all age levels. This linkage may be especially salient among elderly adults. For example, memory lapses may induce anxiety that is out of proportion to the incidents themselves. Furthermore, the increasingly widespread awareness of Alzheimer’s disease has so sensitized some middle-aged …

Elderly people tend to be anxious about dying, not death The three themes already mentioned all converge here. Dying and death are realistic concerns in later adult years; one can no more escape from mortality than one can escape from one’s own skin; and the process of departing from this …

Normative transitions and uncertainties tend to keep people on an anxious footing. Again, the basic phenomenon here is one that can be experienced by people of any age. We tend to feel most secure (least anxious) in familiar and stable situations, and when we can predict futuredevelopments and outcomes with …

There is often a reduction in the resources available to cope with anxiety. Many people deal with stress, threats, and conflicts by moving away from them, exhibiting avoidant behavior. A hassled teenager runs away from home, a quarreling lover drives off, a pressured employee quits his or her job. This …

It is helpful to identify several of the most salient age-related themes, contexts, and expressions of anxiety in the later adult years. As might be expected from the preceding discussion, these age-related phenomena are mediated by all the factors that contribute to making a particular individualthat particular individual. The following …

Why is this octogenarian so preoccupied with even very small financial matters and such a penny-pincher when there seems to be no need for being so? A “fancy” interpretation might dwell on biological changes with age and the hypothetical recrudescence of anal-retentive features. Most gerontologists, however, would probably go first …