| Abstract: | Counseling older clients requires a focus on maintaining their psychological well‐being in the face of increasing losses associated with the aging process. One important contributing factor is the perception elderly people hold of their ability to control their lives and destinies and to maintain and increase rewarding life events while minimizing aversive ones. Operating within this focus, a psy‐choeducational approach to counseling for psychological control is limited only by motivation of the client and the creativeness of the counselor. The degree to which older clients perceive personal control of life is related to their degree of psychological well‐being. |
