On The Application Of Rational-Emotive Therapy To The Elder Seniors In The Urban Seniors’ Social Work In China

The general international population aging standard is:"the old aged60and above in one country accounted for10%of the total population, or the old aged65and above in one country accounted for7%of the total population". Comparing these data with the result of the sixth national census in our country, we could indicate that the society has already stepped into Old Age Society in our country basically. As the leader of world’s most populous nation, and the representative of the low-fertility countries, economic development and social progress requires that we pay more attention to the socially marginalized older people (especially senior citizens, the elderly), the vulnerable groups, fully prepared to respond to the challenges of the elderly the peak of the upcoming. Ensure that about2billion elderly people to meet the high quality of life and spiritual needs of the burden of the whole community, including on the shoulders of every social worker. As the main object of study, senior citizens, elderly have undergone many physical or psychological changes. These changes determine the social workers should take suited methods and techniques. The first step in elderly social work for social workers should be scientific understanding their physical and psychological features.It might be also noted that, we always tend to pay more attention to their physical problems, with ignoring the psychological distress. Results of two nationwide sampling survey carried out by the China Research Center on Aging in2000and2006can be seen: anxiety and depression are serious harm to the mental state and physical health of the elder. Chinese psychology is laggard, so it’s seriously lack of "spiritual support" to elder. Exchange’s decrease and the generation-gap’s existence would increase the psychological burden. There’s nobody they could talk with. Accompanied by the increase risk of negative event such as empty nest, many elders might exist negative emotion like depress and negative behavior like suicide.Practical use the RET in elderly social work in this article with some techniques such as "expression bowl" homework, help the callers response to their problems. Effort to find suited methods for Chinese elderly, innovate new field. Contribute to theory rise to practice, and then practice rise to theory...