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This course provides a didactic background in counseling older adults and their families. The first part of the course provides basic information on common mental health problems of later life, how to assess them, and how to provide mental health services to older adults in an ethical manner. The second part introduces the student to basic knowledge about counseling theories and their application to problems in later life including grief and adjustment to chronic illness. The remainder of the course covers counseling in the family system, applying counseling theory and interventions in organizational settings like nursing homes, and ethical issues with older adults. As one of the skills courses in gerontology, the course is intended to introduce students to counseling skills that can be used in a wide variety of human services jobs in the aging services network. The class can also provide gerontological counseling knowledge for persons in other programs that prepare the student for a counseling career such as social work, counseling psychology, clinical psychology, and so on. |
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