We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Responsibility-Inducing Interventions with Older Clients.
- Authors
Barry, John R.
- Abstract
The article discusses three papers on the positive effects of association with pets and other animals for the older counseling patients. Those who would help older people should use not only their own skills and abilities but any outside aids that might make their total effort more productive and successful. Many ways of encouraging older people to look outside themselves and to become involved with some other living thing have been sought after and explored with increasing frequency. Some of these approaches, however, have been touted as panaceas and may have been oversold. Under certain circumstances, it has been noted that old people who live with pets have better moral, greater happiness, and more life satisfaction than people who do not live with pets. Regarding the responsibility-inducing interventions, interview data, questionnaires, and ratings by the staff all reflected short term positive effects. Markedly, fewer pre-to-post intervention changes were noted in the dependency group. Living with and caring for a pet does not always improve life satisfaction. Hence, the helper must analyze the total situation first and then prescribe specific aid or intervention.
- Subjects
ELDER care; PET therapy; COUNSELING; COUNSELORS; HAPPINESS; PLEASURE
- Publication
Journal of Counseling & Development, 1984, Vol 63, Issue 1, p51
- ISSN
0748-9633
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/j.1556-6676.1984.tb02683.x