Television in the Nursing Home: A Case Study of the Media Consumption Routines and Strategies of Nursing Home Residents (Haworth Activities Management) [Hardcover]

Wendy J Hajjar (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 22, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0789002930 | ISBN-13: 978-0789002938 | Edition: 1

Television in the Nursing Home: A Case Study of the Media Consumption Routines and Strategies of Nursing Home Residents is a three-stage ethnographic study of media use by the elderly in long-term care facilities. This research concludes that watching television is the most prevalent and pervasive activity for patients. Activity directors can now learn how television and media can offer diversion, enhancement of personality, awareness, and sociability to their patients and offers suggestions on roommate coordination, selection of appropriate media, and communication resources. Containing the latest knowledge involving communication and gerontology, Television in the Nursing Home will help you offer programs that will meet the demands of an expanding elderly population.

Developed as a perspective for examining patterns of social interaction, Television in the Nursing Home gives suggestions on how you can use the media to create new activities for patients, maximizing the television as a resource for the elderly. You will gain valuable insight on:

• proof to dispel the myth that television in long-term patient care causes withdrawal and depression
• a breakthrough in the treatment of media and aging, enhancing media-based activities and the use and purchase of electronic equipment for care facilities
• studies on how and why television is the most accessible medium of communication
• information for the development of new media designed specifically for use by the elderly
• creation of media-centered activities that recognize the potential for therapeutic use of communication technologies in the nursing home
  
  The research presented in Television in the Nursing Home establishes the fact that television consumption, once thought to be problematic, should be seen as desirable and necessary. This important book also proves how television is a resource that provides comfort, self-expression, and sociality. This first-ever study will convince you that television and media use in long-term care is beneficial and essential to the wellness of your patients.

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"Therapy with Single Parents: A Social Constructionist Approach is an indispensable resource for professional counselors working with single-parent families, school guidance counselors, and educators who teach in the areas of Social Studies, Sociology, Psychology, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, and Education. Authored by professionals with backgrounds in practice and teaching, this book will have wide appeal.  While the authors by no means ignore the emotional and financial problems often experienced by members of single-parent families, they present a more balanced view -  based on recent, sound methodological research - of the single-parent family as "a viable, healthy family form." This is a welcome and revolutionary claim that challenges entrenched social stereotypes."

- Tatjana Chorney in Journal of Association for Research on Mothering

"This book provides practical information, using common language for clinicians and others who work with single parents/systems…This book strives to depict single parenthood as a viable family structure instead of a deficit position…I would recommend this book to therapists working with single parents…one of the first of its kind to address the unique experiences of single parents and should be applauded."

– Joseph L. Smith, Ph.D., Smith College Studies in Social Work

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 164 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (June 22, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789002930
• ISBN-13: 978-0789002938
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,934,334 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Social Constructionist Book, June 30, 2006

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This review is from: Therapy With Single Parents: A Social Constructionist Approach (Haworth Marriage and Family Therapy) (Paperback)

Atwood is a somewhat prolific writer, and much of the material in this book can be found in her journal articles. However, it is great to have all of the information in one easily accessible place. The book is a must for anyone interested in social constructionist therapy!