Full Circle: Spiritual Therapy for the Elderly (Haworth Activities Management) [Paperback]

Kevin Kirkland (Author), Howard Mc Ilveen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2000 | Series: Haworth Activities Management

When you read Full Circle: Spiritual Therapy for the Elderly, you’ll discover a brand new therapeutic approach—spiritual therapy—to treating elderly patients with cognitive disorders. This handy guide will assist you in starting your own renowned spiritually therapeutic program for dementia patients.

Full Circle is a how-to book that will prove you can trigger emotional responses in an individual or group therapy session using the right spiritual cues. In the first ten pages of Full Circle, you’ll learn about the Spiritual Therapy Program and find the answers to general questions about how and where to establish the program. The remainder of Full Circle contains 80 thematic lesson plans for use in both group and individual sessions. The lessons are flexible and organized into lists to help you formulate the right agenda for individual dementia patients.

Full Circle divides 70 themes into these easily accessible categories:

• Feelings: depression, anger, and shame
• Life Review: aging, children, and change
• Sensory: hearing, smell, and touch
• Special Occasions: Easter, Thanksgiving, and memories of Christmas
• Spiritual: forgiveness, heaven, and peace

In addition, Full Circle has expanded units for higher-achieving seniors. You may also want to use the special notes, poetry, and quotations that are pinpointed within the appropriate specific theme for even more startling results. Full Circle's sophisticated approach to therapy will help you cater to the needs of the cognitively impaired elderly to trigger emotional responses and enhance overall quality of life.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (January 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789006073
• ISBN-13: 978-0789006073
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 6.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,516,125 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nursing Home, May 18, 2011

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This review is from: Full Circle: Spiritual Therapy for the Elderly (Haworth Activities Management) (Paperback)

We are using this format in a Alzheimer's unit on a monthly basis for aprox 1/2 hours and we have high hopes for clients improvement and connections with others..

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lou's Choice, April 4, 2009

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This review is from: Full Circle: Spiritual Therapy for the Elderly (Haworth Activities Management) (Paperback)

Excellent choice and useful to those interested or working with the elderly. I work with Hospice patients and patients with varing stages of dementia.

1.0 out of 5 stars Discontinued Library Book, June 21, 2011

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This review is from: Full Circle: Spiritual Therapy for the Elderly (Haworth Activities Management) (Hardcover)

I was very disappointed when I received the product, the book was a discontinued library book, the spine was broken, it was in rough shape. Book is good however.