By Nancy A. Pachana
This encyclopedia brings jointly key proven and rising learn findings in geropsychology. it's a finished insurance of the full breadth of the sphere, giving readers entry to all significant subareas and illustrating their interconnections with different disciplines. Entries delve deep into key parts of geropsychology similar to notion, cognition, scientific, organizational, wellbeing and fitness, social, experimental and neuropsychology. as well as that, the encyclopedia covers similar disciplines similar to neuroscience, social technological know-how, inhabitants health and wellbeing, public coverage concerns bearing on retirement, epidemiology and demography and medication. Paying cautious awareness to investigate the world over, it cites English and non-English empirical literature from worldwide. This encyclopedia is suitable to a large viewers that come with researchers, clinicians, scholars, coverage makers and nongovernmental agencies.
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What Is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy? A basic assumption in ACT is that psychological suffering is an inherent characteristic of human life (Hayes 2004). ACT makes a strong criticism of the “healthy normality” hypothesis that seems to underlie mainstream Western psychology, according to which humans are, by their nature, psychologically healthy, and well-being and happiness is the hallmark of psychological health. This assumption is a correlate of the welfare society prevalent in the West and in the richer countries in general, but sharply contrasts with people’s everyday experience, which demonstrates that problems, losses and difficulties, and the associated suffering, are more the norm than the exception in human life.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy standard-bearer of this third generation, and its characteristics make it especially suitable for older adults, as discussed later. What Is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy? A basic assumption in ACT is that psychological suffering is an inherent characteristic of human life (Hayes 2004). ACT makes a strong criticism of the “healthy normality” hypothesis that seems to underlie mainstream Western psychology, according to which humans are, by their nature, psychologically healthy, and well-being and happiness is the hallmark of psychological health.
Pachana School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia Laura E. Paige Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA Nicole E. , Houston, TX, USA Sang Chul Park Department of New Biology, DGIST, Daegu, South Korea xlvi Stacey L. Parker School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia Mario A. Parra Department of Psychology, Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, and Human Cognitive Neuroscience, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Department of Psychology, Heriot–Watt University, Edinburgh, UK Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK UDP–INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience (UIFCoN), Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile Constança Paúl UNIFAI and CINTESIS, ICBAS – University of Porto, Porto, Portugal Yaritza D.
