reminiscence

= = = Definition: = Reflecting on past experience (HGD Chapter 18 p.460). Act or process of recollecting past experiences or events

= Examples: = For example: "It contains reminiscences from a wide range of people who have been involved with the station over the years."



= Analogies: = As I look from my corner of my eyes I see a journal.

The journal that had all my memories and pictures of my teenage years. The year where I met him. The years of endless happiness and tears. The years where I fell in and out of love.

I couldn't help but read the very first entry I wrote. I couldn't help but reminiscent the past.

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**__What is it used for ???__**
Reminiscence activity and therapies are used frequently in our own lives and well as in therapeutic settings and residential care. We all use it to cope in times of stress, such as mourning, it can also help reduce injury to our self image and it can create a feeling of intimacy and give special meaning to contact time with others. =**__Reminiscence Therapy and Activities__**= Reminiscence can be used as individual, group or family sessions and is generally categorised in three main types:
 * Simple reminiscence. Here the idea is to reflect on the past in an informative and enjoyable way.
 * Evaluative reminiscence is more of a therapy and may, for example, be used as a life reviewing or sometimes conflict resolving approach.
 * Occasionally, unpleasant and stressful information is recalled and this has been called offensive-defensive reminiscence. It can be the either the cause or the result of behavioral and emotional issues. Dealing with them can provide resolution - a coming to terms with life events and possible closure.

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