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Utilize Self-Help Groups
A second suggestion for empowering older adults is to utilize self-help groups. The rationale for this is grounded in theories about how help is best received. Recent thinking suggests that help is best received when there is no stigma attached, the person receiving help has control over the help, the help is given while training the person to help others, the help receiving is temporary, and receiving help is part of the overall spirit of the institution where services are being provided.2 In some ways, selfhelp groups epitomize how help is best received.
There are many types of self-help groups that could be offered through a counseling practice or as an adjunct to counseling. These include groups for (a) older adults themselves (perhaps organized around specific presenting problems, such as anxiety or hypertension, or perhaps around learning new skills, such as problem-solving or communication skills); (b) relatives of older adults (for example, adult children and spousal caregivers of older adults); and (c) special interest groups, such as religious or political groups. Additional benefits to self-help groups are that not only can they provide a psychological sense of community, but they provide older adults with role models, social relationships and opportunities to learn and practice new coping strategies.3 To empower means to authorize, share power with, or invest with power.
Become Gatekeepers to the Aging Network
The third recommendation for empowering older adults is that Christian counselors become gatekeepers to the aging network. The aging network refers to those public and private organizations at all levels (federal, state, and local) that offer needed services to older persons.4 (See selected old_resources below.) These services include adult education and senior centers for the minimally impaired and community mental health centers, case management systems, and medical daycare for those who face more challenging circumstances. In addition to these community- based old_resources, the aging network is also comprised of home-based old_resources, such as home repair and transportation services for older adults, and more intensive services, such as foster family care, Meals on Wheels, home health care, and in-home hospital care. Institutional support can also be offered through retirement communities and senior housing as well as the more structured services found in group homes, respite care, acute hospitals, and hospice care.5 An exciting and emerging resource in the aging network is the Internet. It has been estimated that over 7.5 million Internet users in the U.S. and Canada are age 50 and older.
Some view this as a market niche and have created websites to appeal to older adults (for example, SeniorCom at www.senior.com provides products, services, information, and entertainment to older adults). Others coordinate not-forprofit services to older adults and their families, offering book clubs, education about computer technology, and other services (for example, SeniorNet at www.seniornet.org). Still others focus on legal assistance. For example, the SeniorLaw Home Page at www.seniorlaw.com is a website designed for older adults and their families who might want information on Elder Law, Medicare, and estate planning, among other relevant topics. Similar websites expressly target low-income older adults, women, and minorities (for example, the National Senior Citizens Law Center at www.nsclc.org). The Internet will undoubtedly broaden the aging network by expanding the number of old_resources that will be available at the fingertipsof older adults. Christian counselors become old_resources to the elderly when they are aware of and function as gatekeepers to the broad network of services available to older adults.
The Theological Reality of Empowerment
Christians should be cautious, of course, about secular notions of empowerment. A secular understanding often rests on the assumption that everyone has the right to self-actualization, and self-actualization becomes the final measure of human life and well-being. Empowerment can quickly fall into a form of radical individualism steeped in evolutionary psychology and the utter rejection of any kind of dependence upon others. This falls short of a Christian understanding of personal worth before God or of personal, corporate, and structural sin. It fails to recognize our dependence upon God and on the Body of Christ, the chief means through which God chooses to work out his purposes in
the world. Empowerment is an important concept to Christian counselors because its meaning is broadened and deepened as we consider the work of the Holy Spirit. Christians are empowered by God because God shares the power of the Holy Spirit, like a father gives his children good gifts (Luke 11:13). The Holy Spirit resides in us and helps produce Christian character (1 John 4:13; Gal. 5:22-23). God empowers us to live in accordance with the Spiritby which we have our minds set on what the Spirit desires(Rom. 8:5).Take help from telephone counseling.
The Holy Spirit is not only concerned to empower us, but also advocates for us through intercessions that are consistent with Gods will (Rom. 8:26). Finally, a Christian understanding of empowerment takes on eschatological significance because the empowerment that Christians experience is a deposit (2 Cor. 5:5) that assures us of Gods intention to glorify himself through our glorification. Christian counselors can expand and enrich the services they provide to older adults by empowering them through our counseling practices and knowledge of available old_resources. As Christians have been empowered, so, too, we empower others. We are also called to attend to those persons who hold a special place in Gods heart, especially the underserved and marginalized.
About the Author
eCounseling.com is the only online counseling help website that allows clients and counselors to connect online – with no software to download or cumbersome technology! It seeks to be an excellent information resource for consumers, and to connect prospective counseling clients to counseling professionals 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year. Its director is himself trained professional Dr. Anthony Centore.
Under what circumstances would the court set aside a legal guardianship in California?
What information can be written in a JV-180 so that the court will set aside (overturn) a legal guardianship and return my kids. I have searched many places (self help center, legal aid, to name a few) and still cannot find any advice or help with putting “worthy” information in the form. I have little money due to tuition increases, and cannot afford a lawyer who specializes in “family law”. The court has already rejected my form twice when I’ve done it on my own. I’m a good person and I need help; what should I do?
There’s no way you can get a court to “set aside” a legal guardianship without a family law attorney. No way at all. Yahoo will not help you here, you need a lawyer.