Programming to Meet the Needs of the Elderly in Institutions Part II

1982 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 89-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean E. Burton
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Geriatric Care ◽  
The Self ◽  
Humanistic Psychology ◽  
Staff Attitudes ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Care Of Elderly ◽  
Vital Factor

This paper explores the principles of humanistic psychology and their application in the care of elderly institutionalized people. Activities already used by occupational therapists which can enhance the self-actualization process are described and other activities which could be incorporated into activity programs are suggested. The influence of staff attitudes on residents' well-being is a vital factor in geriatric care and must be taken into account in any form of programming.

PERSONAL TRAITS SUPPORTING POSITIVE RELATIONS WITH OTHERS

2020 ◽  
pp. 223-237
Author(s):  
G. V. Chaika
Keyword(s):  
Personal Autonomy ◽  
Personal Characteristic ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Study Data ◽  
The Self ◽  
Life Goals ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Personal Traits ◽  
Psychological Hardiness ◽  
Self Actualization

The article examines the psychological qualities and characteristics that support positive relations with others as they are understood in C. Ryff 's model of psychological well-being and compares them with those personal qualities that usually understood as supporting an individual 's personal autonomy. To solve this task, we used the corresponding scale from the Ryff 's Scales of Psychological Well-being; the Test of Meaningful Life Orientation of D. A. Leontiev; Test-Questionnaire of Self-Attitude of V. V. Stolyn, S.R. Panteleyev; Self-Efficacy Scale proposed by R. Schwarzer and M. Jerusalem (adapted by V. G. Romek), S. Maddi 's Hardiness Scale (adaptated of D. A. Leontiev et al.), the Self-Actualization Test (CAT), the self-expression scale from the self-determination test of Osin E. et al. In total, 150 respondents - students of Kyiv universities participated in the research. The study data show that there are strong correlations between positive relations with others and such personal traits as life process and life results and other indicators of meaningfulness of life; self-expression, which reveals whether life is experienced as consistent with one 's own desires, needs and values; self-respect and expected attitudes of others and several other indicators of self-attitude and general scale of self-attitudes; self-actualizing value and psychological hardiness. The predictors of successful positive relations are commitment, expected attitudes of others, self-expression and self-respect, existing life goals and positive life results. High locus of control on self and control as a factor of psychological hardiness can prevent from development of warm, good and deep relations. The obtained results show that there is a line of personal characteristic that support personal autonomy and positive relations with others, namely, self-expression, self-respect, life-goals. That is why we cannot argue the idea that personal autonomy and positive relations with others are totally opposite personal traits and that need in autonomy can is fulfilled by neglecting relationships with others.

scholarly journals Zadowolenie z życia słuchaczy uniwersytetów trzeciego wieku

e-mentor ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-49
Author(s):  
Artur Fabiś ◽  
◽  
Aleksandra Błachnio ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Critical Areas ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The Family ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
The Relationship

The article aims at describing the relationship between the educational activity of the elderly and a more optimal way of experiencing their aging. That link can be justified by a higher measure of the overall level of satisfaction with their lives. The purpose of the study described in the paper was an in-depth analysis of the components of life satisfaction among actively learning seniors. A questionnaire survey was conducted with the voluntary participation of 405 third age university students (U3A). The authors collected data on the critical areas comprising individual well-being, illustrating the diversity in the experience of old age among active mature learners. Only 6.8% of the U3A learners are not satisfied with their life achievements. The study revealed that seniors with four or more children were most pleased, suggesting that self-actualization in the family and educational domains need not be competitive. The analysis of the health component of life satisfaction showed a clear overrepresentation of seniors with the good psychophysical condition. In general, successful ratings of the component measures of life satisfaction among the members of the researched group predominate.

scholarly journals Efektivitas Konseling Wellness Untuk Meningkatkan Psychological Well-Being Lansia

PATRIA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Lucia Hernawati ◽  
Praharesti Eriany
Keyword(s):  
Community Service ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Social Health ◽  
Counseling Services ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Service Activity ◽  
Self Discovery

The number of elderly (60-70 years old until death) in Indonesia increases from year to year. In the elderly phase, individuals begin to experience decreased physical function, cognition and relationships with friends. Thus, it is likely that the psychological well-being of the elderly will decline with declined life satisfaction and contribution to their community as the indicators. This community service activity aimed to help the elderly increase their happiness by providing wellness counseling services for 7 sessions (7 weeks). Through the wellness counseling services, the elderly were invited to evaluate their current lifestyle through self-discovery and to design and apply a new, holistic healthy lifestyle (physical-mental-social health) in order to live a life by maximizing self-actualization and contribution to the society. Henceforth the elderly will feel more satisfied with their lives and happier (the state of psychological well-being increases).

scholarly journals The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Self-Actualization of Personality

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Self ◽  
Humanistic Psychology ◽  
Emotional Life ◽  
Adult Age ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
Crisis Conditions

The article is aimed to reveal the analysis of the emotional intelligence role in adult age personality self-actualization process. The relevance of emotional intelligence and self-actualization connection study in the context of modern scientific discourses and crisis conditions of society is described. The article summarizes the results of theoretical analysis of the problem of self-actualization. The most significant features of the self-actualization process from the point of view of humanistic psychology are presented. Also, methodological principles and basic aspects of self-actualization understanding in domestic psychology are described according to the methodological principles of the activity approach. The essential features of emotional intelligence of the personality, its structure are determined. It is substantiated that emotional intelligence is connected with the process of individual’s self-actualization through realization of the personality in the fullness of his own emotional life, ability to experience peak emotions, emotional sphere content control, etc. The methodological bases of the study, the specifics of the sample and the compared diagnostic groups are described. The empirical data of the person’s self-actualization study, its most significant parameters, expressiveness of different aspects of emotional intelligence are analyzed. The obtained empirical data are interpreted in accordance with classical and modern scientific views on the nature of the self-actualization processes and emotional intelligence. The emotional intelligence indicators expressiveness in intra- and interpersonal plane was interpreted in two groups – respondents who receive a second higher education in the specialty "Psychology" and those who aim to self-actualize. The predominance of interpersonal emotional intelligence and its components – understanding other people's emotions and managing other people's emotions – in the sample, which aim at their own self-actualization, is statistically substantiated and substantively analyzed. Also, the tendency towards identification of one's own emotional sphere content, its expression and indicator of emotional intelligence in general was expressed for both groups of the studied. On the basis of empirical data generalization the tendency of self-actualization and emotional intelligence signs combination in of personality’s functioning is revealed.

Autonomous Motivation, Internalization, and the Self

2019 ◽  
pp. 392-414
Author(s):  
Markus Quirin ◽  
Mattie Tops ◽  
Julius Kuhl
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Autonomous Motivation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Functional Approach ◽  
The Self ◽  
Humanistic Psychology ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Human Motivation ◽  
Autonomous Behavior

In humanistic psychology, autonomy, internalization, and the self constitute fundamental concepts to explain adaptive behavior and well-being. However, the momentary mental processes, their interactions, and individual differences that constitute a causal fundament for these concepts are yet underexplored. The authors will analyze these processes against the backdrop of a functional approach, Personality Systems Interactions Theory, which conceives the self as one out of several neurocognitive systems and highlights its role for autonomous motivation and self-regulation. We attempt to provide answers to questions such as the following: Which momentary mental processes and underlying neurocognitive systems (e.g., large-scale brain networks) facilitate the establishment of stages of internalization? Can the self become inhibited in a way that even highly internalized goals and values may not manifest in behavior? Which role does the self play in emotion regulation and decision-making, and how do these processes in turn facilitate autonomous behavior? The authors believe that the present functional analysis advances a conciliation between a phenomenologically-oriented, humanities view and a process-oriented natural science view on human motivation.

QOL in primary care of elderly mentally ill and their caregivers’ well-being

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 859-859
Author(s):  
N. Tataru ◽  
A. Dicker
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Care Staff ◽  
Care Of Elderly

It is difficult to talk about quality of life of elderly with mental disorders. Thus, there appeared serious ethical challenges for psychiatry: to cut mental health costs and to provide care to as many as possible through all duration of their diseases, from the onset to the end-of-life. The psychiatrists have to face these challenges and treat the elderly with or without mental disorders from primary care to residential one, assuring them the best quality of life as it is possible. The goal of medical policy is to optimize the patients’ and their caregivers’ well-being. Multiple loses in old age are important in decreasing of quality of life and increasing of mental health problems in the elderly. They have more social and medical problems, which include depression and suicide. Caring for a family member with dementia can be both challenging and stressful. Primary care-staff need to develop the skills to detect and manage signs of caregivers stress. Health care professionals can promote well-being of the caregivers not only the patients’ well-being, educate them how to access help and manage their stress effectively. Recognition of the importance of the role of caregivers and finding the effective ways of supporting them, respecting their personal perception of the quality of this offer, improve the quality of primary care of elderly patients with mental disorders and also improve the quality of life of their relative or caregivers.

SELF-ACCEPTANCE: FROM PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS TO THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A SUBJECT

2021 ◽  
pp. 54-59
Author(s):  
T. S. Pilipenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
The Self ◽  
Humanistic Psychology ◽  
Personal Agency ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Subject Characteristic ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Self Acceptance ◽  
High Level

In experimental psychology, the problem of non-acceptance of oneself, one’s environment, and the world around is one of the relevant issues. The author notes that the accepted in contemporary society popular opinions associated with self-acceptance often have manipulative or prescriptive nature and are the negative attitudes blocking the person activity and leading to its stagnation. The resolution of the stereotyped image of this phenomenon is possible from the perspective of historical-theoretical analysis of the study of self-acceptance. The paper presents various approaches to the understanding of self-acceptance by foreign and Russian psychologists within such psychology areas as neofreidism, gestalt-psychology, existential, and humanistic psychology. The author considers the changes in the study of self-acceptance, notes that despite different views of classical psychologists on the understanding of this phenomenon, they define self-acceptance as an active process promoting self-improvement and self-actualization of a person. This fact conflicts with the latent meaning of widespread life theses on self-acceptance. The paper emphasizes the possibility to study self-acceptance from the perspective of the subject approach as a phenomenon initiating the activity of a person in organization and regulation of own life activities, promoting further development of a person, its self-actualization. The author considers the controversial characteristics of self-acceptance as a subject characteristic: self-acceptance allows changing from self-understanding to self-improvement, at the same time, the high level of self-acceptance requires a particular level of development of the personal agency. The author notes the paradoxical understanding of the self-acceptance phenomenon largely within the frames of positive self-attitude, which can promote the “Self” image idealism and lead to intrapersonal regress.

The Need for Occupational Therapists in Geriatric Nursing Homes

1984 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 185-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Rodger
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Elderly Patients ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Geriatric Care ◽  
Geriatric Nursing ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Comprehensive Geriatric Care ◽  
Health And Well Being

This article aims to highlight the contribution occupational therapists can make to comprehensive geriatric care. It emphasizes how the philosophy of the profession, as well as the training graduates receive, equip occupational therapists to aid in the maintenance of health and well-being in elderly patients. The specific skills occupational therapists possess which enable them to make a unique contribution to geriatric treatment teams are detailed.

scholarly journals Older parents and adult children: Traditional relationship or closeness throug or at distance?

Sociologija ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (suppl. 1) ◽  
pp. 287-305
Author(s):  
Sladjana Dragisic-Labas
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Other ◽  
Older Parents ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Care Of Elderly ◽  
The One ◽  
Reproductive Activities

A good relationship between older parents and adult children is an important part of active aging. This relationship is being transformed in different ways through all stages of life. Closeness, support and care of elderly parents by children and the other way around of descendants, both children and grandchildren by their parents and grandparents definitely facilitates and reduces the amount of care to be delivered from the community and wider society as such. However, the state often conveys its own part of responsibility to the elderly or the children, whereas the traditional culture presupposes a reciprocal care to be a moral norm, hence we get the so called ?nonsense? situation i.e., overloaded and exhausted adult children or burdened parents on the one side and preserved ?state? of well-being, on the other. In this work, we will consider the relationship between older parents and adult children using the collected data from 52 interviews (with content analysis method applied) conducted with people over 65, from Belgrade. It becomes clear that this relationship marks the everyday life - work, reproductive activities, leisure, health, i.e., the most relevant aspects of our respondents? lives. The so called ?distant closeness? proved to be efficient in Western societies and referring to our research, it is described as desirable but not always feasible. . It is also more preferable for female than for male respondents. The male respondents have higher expectations from their children when it comes to care and help. Sharing of more responsibility over needs of elderly and their children by society, could significantly enable the realization of what we here labelled ?distant closeness?.

scholarly journals Implementasi Psikologi Humanistik Carl Rogers pada Tradisi Lokal Nyadran di Jambe Gemarang Kedunggalar Ngawi

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 230-257
Author(s):  
Wiwik Setiyani
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Humanistic Psychology ◽  
Carl Rogers ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
Village Community ◽  
The People ◽  
Large Trees ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Local Traditions ◽  
The Village

The article discusses nyadran celebration in the village of Jambe Gemarang Kedunggalar Ngawi with a humanistic psychology’s Carls Rogers. The community welcomes the enthusiasm for nyadran, because the event has meaning for abangan community in carrying out the ritual. The enthusiasm of the community with the preparation of ritual ritual: gambyong dance complete with sinden (handlebar), tumpeng, cleansing, offerings and drinks. The purpose of nyadran is for the safety and well-being of the village community of Jambe Gemarang. The humanistic psychology of Carls Rogers contributes to analyzing the implementation of nyadran in building relationships or communications among citizens. The community’s belief in rituals is significant, in particular the belief in sendang as a source of springs and large trees. The behavior of the people who believe in the ritual nyadran image of people who love local traditions and have a personality organism against the positive potentials of the community Jambe Gemarang. The nyadran ritual gives birth to a mature personality and a form of self-actualization of a prosperous society and has the pride of the nyadran tradition as (selfregard) formed from its experiences.

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