By Boaz Kahana,Zev Harel,Eva Kahana

Based on a different learn learn, this quantity examines the later existence improvement of Holocaust survivors from Israel and the U.S.. via systematic interviews, the authors – famous researchers and clinicians – accumulated information in regards to the lives of those survivors and the way they in comparison to friends who didn't percentage this event. The orientation of the ebook synthesizes numerous conceptual ways – gerontological and existence span improvement, rigidity learn, and traumatology, and likewise displays the various disciplines of the authors, spanning psychology, social paintings, and sociology. the result's a multi-faceted view in their topic with an figuring out of the person, society, and the interplay of the 2, tempered by means of the authors’ personal Holocaust studies. Chapters hide various components together with pressure and coping of those survivors, experiences in their heath and psychological health and wellbeing, an exam in their social integration, in addition to a assessment of the a number of predictors of mental healthiness and version to getting older. This booklet may be of curiosity to psychologists, social staff, sociologists, psychiatrists, and all those that learn either trauma and aging.

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