Improving Memory through Creativity: A Professional's Guide to Culturally Sensitive Cognitive Training with Older Adults

Contents

• 1. Late-Life Creative Self-Expression and Memory.
• 1.1. How-to-Apply Information Presented within this Text.
• 1.2. Normal and Abnormal Aging.
• 1.3. Alzheimer's disease.
• 1.4. Risk Factors of Memory Loss.
• 1.5. Mental Stimulation.
• 1.6. Stress.
• 1.7. Emotional Stress and Social Isolation.
• 1.8. Self-Expression in Late-Life.
• 1.9. Encouraging Mental Stimulation through Expressive Art-Making.
• 1.10. Incorporating Creativity into Older Adult Identity through Art-Making.
• 1.11. Creative Behavior.
• 1.12. Creative Thought.
• 1.13. Creative Self-Expression.
• 1.14. Summary.
• 2. Happiness, Social Creativity, and the Brain.
• 2.1. Happiness and Creative Self-Expression.
• 2.2. Elevating Mood during Creative Sessions.
• 2.3. Bodily/Sensory Pleasures.
• 2.4. Higher Order Pleasures.
• 2.5. Gratifications.
• 2.6. Happiness, Creativity and the Brain.
• 2.7. Neurotransmitters and Creativity.
• 2.8. Making Art that Expresses and Enhances Mood.
• 2.9. Visual Elements, Cognition and Mood.
• 2.10. Combining Visual Elements for Enhanced Mood.
• 2.11. Social Equality vs. Stratifications during Creativity and Happiness.
• 2.12. Summary.
• 3. Culture, Communication and Art.
• 3.1. Promoting Socialization during Memory Training.
• 3.2. Culture.
• 3.3. Providing Cultural Neutrality.
• 3.4. Communication.
• 3.5. Art in Communication.
• 3.6. Visual Literacy.
• 3.7. Social Sharing of Meaning through Art.
• 3.8. Social Roles.
• 3.9. Increased Socialization through Art.
• 3.10. Summary.
• 4. Cognitive Training through Creative Self-Expression.
• 4.1. Addressing Cognitive Abilities.
• 4. 2 Emotion-Focused Interventions.
• 4.3. Targeting Cognitive Performance through Creativity.
• 4.4. Nature of Cognitive Impairment.
• 4.5. Type of Memory Impacted.
• 4.6. Short-term Working Memory vs Long-term Memory.
• 4.7. Cognitive Training.
• 4.8. Restorative Strategies.
• 4.9. Compensatory Strategies.
• 4.10. Expressivity-based Memory Techniques.
• 4.11. Neurobiology of Creativity and Expressivity.
• 4.12. Theory: Going Beyond "Recipes".
• 4.13. Understanding Cerebral Activity in Art-Making.
• 4.14. Examples of artwork and corresponding ETC.
• 4.15. Educational vs Therapeutic Frameworks.
• 4.16. Summary.
• 5. Understanding Art to Understand the Mind.
• 5.1. Elements of Successful Sessions.
• 5.2. Additional Planning for Effective Sessions.
• 5.3. Rhythmic Structure and Versatility in Directives.
• 5.3. Outline of Ten-Weeks of Sessions.
• 5.4. A Single Directive for All Ten-Weeks.
• 5. 5 Concluding the Ten Weeks.
• 5.6. Summary.
• 6. Going beyond the Book: Community Collaborations.
• 6.1. Scope-of-Practice.
• 6.2. Cultural Trends in Seeking Care.
• 6.3. Caregivers.
• 6.4. Inter-Generational Projects.
• 6.5. Services/Systems of Care across Settings.
• 6.6. Getting Started.
• 6.7. Identifying Symptoms Cross-Culturally.
• 6.8. Organizations.
• 6.9. Ways to Continue Learning.
• 6.10. Summary.
• 6.11. Learning Evaluation Quiz. References.