Life Review: Understanding its Process and Benefits

This report provides a comprehensive overview of life review, a process used in psychology to help individuals reflect on their past experiences. It explores the benefits of life review, such as enhancing mental well-being and providing a sense of closure. The report highlights how life review differs from everyday remembering, as it involves a more structured examination of one's life history, including both successes and failures. The report examines the role of life review in dealing with issues like depression, and in palliative care. The report provides references to academic sources to support the information presented. This report is a valuable resource for understanding the complexities of life review and its impact on mental health.

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Table of Contents
Discuss the concept of life review?.................................................................................................3
What are the goals and benefits of a life review?............................................................................3
The goal of life review.................................................................................................................3
Benefits of life review..................................................................................................................3
How is life review similar and different than ordinary remembering?...........................................3
References........................................................................................................................................4

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Discuss the concept of life review?
Life review treatment includes grown-ups referred to their past to accomplish a feeling of
harmony or strengthening about their lives. While life survey treatment isn't for everybody, there
are certain groups of people who can benefit from this process of life review. Life review therapy
has several purposes such as therapeutic, educational as well as informational. Following are the
people who are suffering from dementia, diagnosed with any kind of terminal condition and old
age people who have been associated with depression or anxiety. Even people who have lost
their close ones are also included in this category (Vuksanovic, Green, Dyck & Morrissey 2017).
What are the goals and benefits of a life review?
The goal of life review
The major goal of life review is to develop an overall self-understanding and its necessity
and the importance in the upcoming years.
Benefits of life review
 In order to find out the worth and importance of their lives, life therapy acts as wonders
as it can instill hope in minds of adults and the those confronting with end of life issues.
 Specialists additionally use this therapy to treat the rising problem of depression in old
age people. Furthermore, a specialist may utilize life survey treatment to go with other
clinical medicines, for example, prescriptions to lessen nervousness or gloom (White
Hughto & Reisner, 2016).

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 Life survey treatment can advance developed confidence. Individuals may not understand
the criticalness of their achievements from bringing up kids to being the primary
individual in their family to acquire an advanced education.
How is life review similar and different than ordinary remembering?
Ordinary remembering as a term can be explained as an informal process which can
occur any time, at any place and with anyone. Recollecting something doesn't require any
investigation of past downfall or failure or requirement for compromise. Recalling generally
happen to consider those moments where person was very happy and excited internally. For
example, winning a first award in class or celebrating any day, or simply a reminiscence of a
vacation spent. On the other hand Life review can be progressively formal, organized, and far
reaching than memory. It includes checking on life from youth to mature age and finding at
accomplishment and disappointments, recognizing miss-steps and attempts to offer some kind of
time to ddeal with these mistakes. Looking for compromise among families and companion, yet
recognition doesn't require these things (White Hughto & Reisner, 2016).

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References
Vuksanovic, D., Green, H. J., Dyck, M., & Morrissey, S. A. (2017). Dignity therapy and life
review for palliative care patients: a randomized controlled trial. Journal of pain and
symptom management, 53(2), 162-170.
White Hughto, J. M., & Reisner, S. L. (2016). A systematic review of the effects of hormone
therapy on psychological functioning and quality of life in transgender
individuals. Transgender Health, 1(1), 21-31.