All Outputs (90)

Involving people who have dementia in the evaluation of services: A review (2000)
Journal Article
Cheston, R., Bender, M., & Byatt, S. (2000). Involving people who have dementia in the evaluation of services: A review. Journal of Mental Health, 9(5), 471-479. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638230020005200

Government policy and good practice dictate that health and other care services should routinely involve service users in the evaluation of the services that they receive. While the carers of people with dementia have been involved in this process re... Read More about Involving people who have dementia in the evaluation of services: A review.

Understanding Dementia: The Man With The Worried Eyes (1999)
Book
Cheston, R., & Bender, M. (1999). Understanding Dementia: The Man With The Worried Eyes. Jessica Kingsley

Over the last ten years a number of new concepts have emerged within social psychology, gerontology, socio-linguistics and psychotherapy which present a challenge to the view of dementia as simply an organic illness. These ideas have led to service i... Read More about Understanding Dementia: The Man With The Worried Eyes.

Brains, minds and selves: Changing conceptions of the losses involved in dementia (1999)
Journal Article
Cheston, R., & Bender, M. (1999). Brains, minds and selves: Changing conceptions of the losses involved in dementia. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 72(2), 203-216. https://doi.org/10.1348/000711299159952

Until the last 10 years or so, dementia research had been dominated by the psychiatric or medical approach to dementia. However, increasing numbers of new psychological and social psychological approaches to dementia have begun to emerge. Consequentl... Read More about Brains, minds and selves: Changing conceptions of the losses involved in dementia.

Psychotherapeutic work with people with dementia: A review of the literature (1998)
Journal Article
Cheston, R. (1998). Psychotherapeutic work with people with dementia: A review of the literature. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 71(3), 211-231. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8341.1998.tb00987.x

Until recently psychotherapy and counselling techniques have rarely been used with people with dementia. However, the change in emphasis within dementia care towards a person-centred approach has meant that there is a growing clinical interest in the... Read More about Psychotherapeutic work with people with dementia: A review of the literature.

Inhabitants of a lost kingdom: A model of the subjective experiences of dementia (1997)
Journal Article
Bender, M., & Cheston, R. (1997). Inhabitants of a lost kingdom: A model of the subjective experiences of dementia. Ageing and Society, 17(5), 513-532

Pourquoi parler? Métaphore et identité en psychothérapie des sujets atteints de démence (1997)
Book Chapter
Cheston, R. (1997). Pourquoi parler? Métaphore et identité en psychothérapie des sujets atteints de démence. In Psychotherapie des demences, quels fondements, quel objectifs (32-37). John Libby Eurotext

Rewriting the story of dementia: A narrative approach to psychotherapy with people with dementia (1997)
Book Chapter
Cheston, R., & Sutton, L. (1997). Rewriting the story of dementia: A narrative approach to psychotherapy with people with dementia. In M. Marshall (Ed.), The Cutting Edge of Dementia Care. London: Centre for Policy on Ageing

Stories and metaphors: Talking about the past in a psychotherapy group for people with dementia (1996)
Journal Article
Cheston, R. (1996). Stories and metaphors: Talking about the past in a psychotherapy group for people with dementia. Ageing and Society, 16(5), 579-602

Social constructionist approaches to the talk of older adults diagnosed as suffering from a dementing illness have emphasised the importance of analysing such talk in terms of its social function. Drawing on this work together with the increasing cli... Read More about Stories and metaphors: Talking about the past in a psychotherapy group for people with dementia.

The Accounts of Special Education Leavers (1994)
Journal Article
Cheston, R., & Cheston, R. (1994). The Accounts of Special Education Leavers. Disability and Society, 9(1), 59-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599466780051

There has been comparatively little analysis of the ways in which pupils within special education describe themselves. This paper looks at the linguistic repertoires that leavers from special education in Central Scotland drew upon in order to accoun... Read More about The Accounts of Special Education Leavers.

Dementia and existential threat: Negotiating the fear of a loss of control
Presentation / Conference
Cheston, R. Dementia and existential threat: Negotiating the fear of a loss of control. Paper presented at European Chapter of the Society for Psychotherapy Research

Aim: Psychotherapy is increasingly being offered to people who are living with dementia, as a way of helping them to talk more openly about their illness without, at the same time being overwhelmed by the existential threat that dementia represents.... Read More about Dementia and existential threat: Negotiating the fear of a loss of control.