Professional Helpers and Resistances to Work with Older People
- 1 March 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Ageing and Society
- Vol. 9 (1) , 43-60
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x00013350
Abstract
Resistances to empathy with older service users are outlined, drawn primarily from Jungian psychology. It is suggested that lack of a helper's personal experience of old age allows disproportionate influence to be played by archetypal intrapsychic processes. These are augmented by helpers perceptions of a negative personal future and a tendency either to ignore the age appropriate projects of older persons or replace them with those appropriate for the helper. Consequences for helper training are briefly explored.Keywords
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