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Full Circle: Spiritual Therapy for the Elderly

by Kevin Kirkland and Howard McIlveen

This handy guide will assist you in starting your own spiritual therapeutic program for dementia patients. The sophistricated approach to therapy will help you cater to the needs of these clients to trigger emotional responses and enhance overall quality of life.

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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 pin-pointed 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.

    236 pages; 6 X 9; hard bound

    Contents
    Preface
    Introduction
    Definitions
    Rationale
    Format of the Sessions
    Qualities of Full Circle Staff
    A Guide to Using the Themes
    Themes
    Feelings
    Anger
    Confidence
    Confusion
    Depression
    Encouragement and Support
    Envy and Jealousy
    Faith
    Fear
    Forgiveness
    Freedom
    Joy
    Memories and Memories Lost
    Orphaned/Lonely/Abandoned
    Reconciliation
    Shame
    Sorrow/Grief
    Togetherness and Unity
    Life Review
    Aging
    Birth
    Celebration
    Change
    Children
    Death/Loss
    Dreams and Aspirations
    Friendship
    Good News/Bad News
    Home
    Life's Storms and Trials
    Name
    Saying Good-Bye
    Siblings
    Spouses/Partners
    Teacher
    Transitions/Moves
    Work
    Sensory
    Arms
    Clothing
    Darkness
    Faces
    Gardening
    Hair
    Hands/Touch
    Hearing (Ears)
    Heart
    Legs and Feet
    Light
    Meals
    Music
    Pain
    Rest
    Scent/Smell (Nose)
    Sight (Eyes)
    Voice (Mouth)
    Weariness/Fatigue
    Special Occasions
    Communion
    Easter
    Father (Father's Day)
    Gifts (Second Advent)
    Hope/Waiting (Third Advent)
    Love (Fourth Advent)
    Memories of Christmas
    Mother (Mother's Day)
    Promises (First Advent)
    Renewal/New Year's Day
    Thanksgiving
    Veterans Day/ Remembrance Day
    Spiritual
    Angels
    Creation/Nature
    The Cross
    Healing
    Heaven
    Life After Death
    Peace
    Prayer
    Appendixes
    Blank Theme Pages
    Hymnal Sources
    Bibliography
    Hymns/Secular Songs Index
    Topic Index

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