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Developmental Tasks Of Older People: Implications For Group Work Practice, Mitchell Alan Lang
Developmental Tasks Of Older People: Implications For Group Work Practice, Mitchell Alan Lang
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The purpose of this study is to explore the ways in which a developmental approach to personality change can be applied to the later years in life. Chapter II is a brief introduction to the concept of development and its relation to aging. Chapter III contains a literature review of existing developmental theories of aging plus those theories which I feel can be integrated into a psychosocial developmental model. Chapter IV, a description of group work techniques with older people based on the developmental task approach, contains my own ideas for group practice. My primary intention throughout the paper is …