Aging and dying

Implications for community mental health

Bibliographic Data

ID11044568
AuthorsDavid H Bauer (California State University, Chico, corresponding author)
Year1977
Volume5
Issue1
Pages28-36
Publication date1977-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Community Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-4392 • E-ISSN: 1520-6629
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/1520-6629(197701)5:1<28::aid-jcop2290050106>3.0.co;2-f
PMID10236025
OpenAlexW2071006900
LanguageEN
References cited11

Over the last decade increasing attention has been directed at an array of psychological problems associated with growing old and dying in American society. Nonetheless, while knowledge about difficulties encountered by clients who are reaching old age, facing the death of loved ones, as well as confronting loss of their own life has been accumulating, implications which such information has for community mental health remain largely unexplored. Accordingly, implications are derived for mental health personnel functioning in educational, governmental, and community settings by examing the social psychological consequences of aging in America, pertinent aspects of dynamics of emotional reactions to loss of loved ones, and personal and cultural attitudes toward death which influence clients' coping strategies.

Coping (psychology) · Mental health · Psychiatry · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Medicine · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Gerontology

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