By Mary Anderson PhD, Jane Goodman PhD, Nancy Schlossberg EdD

The simply textbook explicitly designed to handle counseling with adults who're dealing with person, courting, and paintings transitions, this quantity integrates the elemental tenets of grownup improvement with healing perform. it really is in response to Schlossberg's conception of transitions, a brand new approach and content material version that gives powerful innovations for aiding adults to appreciate and effectively navigate common existence transitions.

This revised variation addresses modern societal ills that exacerbate grownup existence transitions, similar to a tumultuous financial system, elevated unemployment, bankruptcies, and foreclosure, and specializes in our expanding racial and cultural range. the amount additionally expands its attention of non secular and social justice concerns and offers a extra built-in and holistic method of grownup transitional counseling.

Key good points of the hot version:

  • Based on Schlossberg's process, a brand new version for counseling adults in transition
  • Offers functional new innovations and workouts to be used in transitional counseling
  • Addresses unemployment and coping in an doubtful social/economic context
  • Focuses on loss and resilience, variety, tradition, social justice, and spirituality
  • Contains new sections on transitioning to maturity, residing preparations together with various kin constructions, mobility, siblings, in-laws, and retirement
  • Introduces new techniques corresponding to collectivist coping, hardiness, mindfulness, and transcendence

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Although midlife adults today continue to increase their expectations for their lives and their options, increasingly they are experiencing a wide gap between their dreams and reality. Hudson (1991) stated that the challenge is one of courage, and rather than mourning the premature death of the “American Dream,” adults need to explore their new personal depths and discover their own visionary capacities. It seems that the courage that is called for is what has been termed radical acceptance (Brach, 2003).

In other words, she proposed conceptualizing gender identity based on the individual’s current perceptions of self as gendered, rather than as in the process of development. In her study (Hoffman, 2006), she found significant correlations of gender self-acceptance and gender self-definition with a strong ethnic identity. These findings suggested that gender and ethnic identity development may be somewhat of a parallel process, yet these results were tentative and a need for further research in this area remains.

Theorists have positioned transitions within a developmental framework, defining them as turning points or as a period between two periods of stability (Levinson, 1986). Moving through a transition requires letting go of aspects of the self, letting go of former roles, and learning new roles. People moving through transitions inevitably must take stock as they renegotiate these roles. Transitions often involve significant life events that require coping with what is perceived to be a crisis situation.

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