Showing titles in Adulthood & Aging

George S. K. Rider's The Rogue's Road to Retirement takes a unique approach to growing old don't do it! After retiring, Rider embarks on a bumpy journey to find himself and a new lease on life. For the first time, he gets in touch with his creative side an unusual direction indeed, since he spent 70 years of his life as a college athlete turned Navy officer turned Wall Street trader and weekend jock.

Is there really such a thing as a midlife crisis - a true crisis in a person's life that happens in midlife? Yes, there is. But fortunately for most of us, it is a fairly rare event. Unlike the midlife crisis, a midlife transition is a quasi-universal reaction to the major changes that take place in midlife, mentally, physically and in relationships. This book describes the powerful, dynamic forces that underlie both the midlife crisis and midlife transition and provides, through clinical case material, a detailed description of each.

Dr. Calvin Colarusso explains why adults need to play, maybe not as much as children do, but for the same reasons. Play is a way of mastering stress and trauma. It serves the same purpose for children and adults. The stresses of adulthood are, in their own way, more daunting than those of childhood. And we all have a need to master the traumatic overstimulation that characterizes our busy lives, to say nothing of the internal pressures that continually force us to deal with issues, relationships, and experiences.

As we age, our roles as fathers change. Like all relationships, fatherhood is not a static experience, nor is it easily described, and at times the path is unclear and confusing. How do we relate to daughters and sons as they mature? As teenagers? As adults? As caretakers and heads of their own families? How does one best find joy in their accomplishments and our hand in them? And how do we come to terms with their failures, which can so often feel like our own?

In Losing It, William Ian Miller brings his inimitable wit and learning to the subject of growing old: too old to matter, of either rightly losing your confidence or wrongly maintaining it, culpably refusing to face the fact that you are losing it. The "it" in Miller's "losing it" refers mainly to mental faculties - memory, processing speed, sensory acuity, the capacity to focus. But it includes other evidence as wel l- sags and flaccidities, aches and pains, failing joints and organs. What are we to make of these tell-tale signs?

Marcel van Roosmalen over zijn dementerende moeder in het verpleegtehuis ten tijde van de coronapandemie - ontroerend eerlijk, droogkomisch en actueel. Wanneer de moeder van Marcel van Roosmalen na een val niet terug kan keren naar het ouderlijk huis, en onderdak vindt in een verpleegtehuis in Velp, lijkt een rustige periode voor haar en haar kinderen aan te breken. Totdat in maart 2020 de coronapandemie om zich heen grijpt. Het verpleegtehuis wordt ontruimd vanwege de vele positief geteste bewoners en moeder Van Roosmalen wordt getransporteerd naar de bossen bij Groesbeek.

Herrschaft der Kindsköpfe – über das Unbehagen in Kultur und Politik. Gefühl ist Trumpf, Argumente stören, und Diskretion war gestern. Wir haben uns in eine Gesellschaft der Kindsköpfe verwandelt, das infantile Prinzip herrscht: Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt der bekannte Publizist Alexander Kissler in seinem neuen Buch. Erwachsene verhalten sich lustvoll wie Kinder, sind es aber längst nicht mehr. Sie reden auf Teletubbies-Niveau, schicken Emojis in die Datenumlaufbahn oder schwärmen hemmungslos für Greta & Co. Sie spielen Meerjungfrau, Teddybär und Peter Pan und finden nichts dabei.

Questo saggio vuole fornire alcune indicazioni su come affrontare i problemi della vecchiaia con serenità e sicurezza. L'autrice non parte da considerazioni etiche, sociologiche o psicologiche, bensì scientifiche, con le quali dimostra che il cervello umano invecchiando perde alcune prerogative, ma le sostituisce con altre che in parte compensano e superano quelle perdute. L'autrice accompagna la sua dimostrazione con una serie di esempi di personalità attive fino alla vecchiaia, come Michelangelo, Galileo Galilei, Bertrand Russell e Pablo Picasso.

Teen Spirit offers a novel and provocative perspective on how we came to be living in an age of political immaturity and social turmoil. Award-winning author Paul Howe argues it's because a teenage mentality has slowly gripped the adult world.

Some of the most profound growth of our lives can happen in the home stretch, the years after age 60 or so. It's a time when we can finally crystallize the meaning of what we've been and done so far and fully expand into the self we've always intended to be, guided by the voice of the soul. But, says psychologist Charles Garfield, that can only happen if we first loosen the grip of the life we've led so far, the one that's been focused outwardly - on activity, achievement, and the idea of success - and let our souls lead the way.

An experiential guide to re-orienting our understanding of late adulthood as one of life's most meaningful and transformative stages Aging can bring new fears, challenges, and concerns. Loss of career, loved ones, or changing physical and cognitive abilities can leave us feeling isolated and...

Everything Begins with Asking for Help is a frank, insightful and thought-provoking audiobook on mental health, drawing on the author's own experience of a severe mental breakdown and sharing the recovery tools he has developed in partnership with various medical professionals and mental health experts. Kevin shares his own story to give the audiobook a vital human element, explaining how his fast-paced life in Berlin as a successful magazine journalist was brought to a sudden halt by a major depressive episode.

On acclaimed writer Susan Gubar’s 70th birthday, she receives a beautiful ring from her husband. As she contemplates their sustaining relationship, she begins to consider how older lovers differ from their youthful counterparts - and from ageist stereotypes - and realizes that age cannot wither love. A memoir proving that the heart’s passions have no expiration date, Late-Life Love rejoices in second chances.

Human development specialist and leadership coach Christina Congleton delivers an insightful and urgently needed discussion of how millennials can move beyond the tired cliches of the self-help genre and achieve new levels of satisfaction and contentment. In the book, you'll explore how crushing levels of student debt, consecutive financial crises, and an alarming uptick in depression, substance abuse, and suicide are combining to significantly damage the potential of millennials everywhere.

„Krisen gehören nun mal zum Leben.“ Wirklich? Was wäre, wenn wir die natürlichen Lebensübergänge wieder als solche sehen könnten – als normal, als Chance, Altes loszulassen und sich weiterzuentwickeln? Geburt, Pubertät, Berufseinstieg, Familiengründung usw., all das sind potenzielle Auslöser für Krisen in unserer sich immer schneller drehenden Welt. Oft klammert man sich an vermeintlich Sicheres, wehrt sich gegen unausweichliche Veränderungen – und verpasst den Entschluss, mutig selbst den nächsten Schritt zu tun.

Ulla Hinge Thomsen fandt ud af, at hun ikke var mere sart eller nærtagende end andre, selvom hun hurtigere blev træt af det åbne kontorlandskab og høje lyde - hun er bare særligt sensitiv. I denne bog vejleder Ulla Hinge Thomsen i, hvordan man kan få det bedste ud af sin stærke sensitivitet.

Im Buch geht es um den Zeitdruck ab 30 und darum, wie wir mit der weniger werdenden Zeit und dem Stress durch immer mehr Verantwortung und Verpflichtungen umgehen. Den Zeit nicht mehr hinterherrennen, sondern den Alltag gelassen bewältigen, dafür gibt die bekannte Stressmanagement-Expertin, Sue Fengler, leicht umsetzbare Tipps und teilt bewährte Stressmanagement-Learnings aus ihrer Praxis.

Per questo è nato il progetto La Via della longevità felice, un sentiero verso la consapevolezza del dono prezioso di una lunga vita. E così è nato questo manuale che vede convergere le esperienze e le conoscenze di Franco Berrino, Nino Frustaglia e gli altri medici ed esperti della "Grande Via" in campi diversi come l'alimentazione, la psicologia, lo yoga, la botanica e la medicina tradizionale cinese.

Cuando la violencia sexual se vive en la infancia o adolescencia, en contextos muy cercanos y de aparente “seguridad” como la familia o la escuela, es muy complicado para el infante y adolescente poner nombre a lo que vive; en consecuencia, es muy probable que lo devele hasta la adultez. En Ante la violencia sexual infantil, con un enfoque contemporáneo y multidisciplinario, se sientan las bases para entender qué son las violencias y sus tipos, el contexto en el que se desarrolla el abuso sexual infantil.

Dieser Ratgeber macht Sie zunächst mit dem Konzept der Ressourcenübungen sowie deren herausragender Bedeutung in der positiven Psychologie vertraut, anschließend packen Sie es an: Mit zahlreichen Techniken, Übungen und Reflexionen zu 7 zentralen Themengebieten wie Selbstsicherheit, Gelassenheit, Kreativität oder Brain Boost setzen Sie Step-by-Step alle Potenziale Ihrer Ressourcen frei und machen sich fit für sämtliche Herausforderungen des Lebens.