CALTAP in assessment approaches and strategies
Bob G. Knight and Nancy A. Pachana
in Psychological Assessment and Therapy with Older Adults
Chapter 2 discusses CALTAP in assessment approaches and strategies. This includes the neuropsychotherapy approach, the importance of the clinical interview, the CALTAP model applied to ...
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Treating Later-Life Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Workbook (2 ed.)
Ann M. Steffen, Leah P. Dick-Siskin, Ann Choryan Bilbrey, Larry W. Thompson, and Dolores Gallagher-Thompson
This culturally responsive workbook uses the evidence-based methods of cognitive behavioral therapy to help middle-aged and older adults build on existing strengths and reduce symptoms of ...
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Treating Later-Life Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Clinician Guide (2 ed.)
Ann M. Steffen, Larry W. Thompson, and Dolores Gallagher-Thompson
One of the greatest challenges for providers treating later-life depression is the wide variability of life circumstances that accompany depressive symptoms for clients across outpatient ...
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Module 11: Skills for Wrapping Up: Finishing Treatment
Ann M. Steffen, Larry W. Thompson, and Dolores Gallagher-Thompson
in Treating Later-Life Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Clinician Guide (2 ed.)
This chapter supports providers as they use flexible clinical tools for the psychotherapy termination process with middle-aged and older adults. Termination issues covered include the ...
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Module 6: Skills for Managing Chronic Pain: Improving Daily Life
Ann M. Steffen, Larry W. Thompson, and Dolores Gallagher-Thompson
in Treating Later-Life Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Clinician Guide (2 ed.)
There are a number of health conditions experienced by middle-aged and older adults that lead to persistent pain. This chapter supports providers as they help aging clients manage chronic ...
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Psychotherapy Modifications with Aging Clients
Ann M. Steffen, Larry W. Thompson, and Dolores Gallagher-Thompson
in Treating Later-Life Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Clinician Guide (2 ed.)
Age-related adaptations to individual and group psychotherapy, as well as within integrated primary care practice, generally involve contextual modifications—in other words, the “how” of ...
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Depression and Age-Related Issues
Ann M. Steffen, Larry W. Thompson, and Dolores Gallagher-Thompson
in Treating Later-Life Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Clinician Guide (2 ed.)
This chapter provides an overview of later-life depression and information about age-related changes and concerns that are often contributing factors. Clinicians preparing to implement this ...
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Module 10: Skills for Relating: Getting Along and Communicating Your Needs
Ann M. Steffen, Larry W. Thompson, and Dolores Gallagher-Thompson
in Treating Later-Life Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Clinician Guide (2 ed.)
Depression creates difficulties with interpersonal communication and relationships, especially for middle-aged and older adults. This chapter suggests flexible clinical tools for providers ...
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Module 7: Skills for Healthy Sleep: Resting Better and Longer
Ann M. Steffen, Larry W. Thompson, and Dolores Gallagher-Thompson
in Treating Later-Life Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Clinician Guide (2 ed.)
Clinical depression can disrupt sleep patterns, and chronic insomnia contributes to the development of depressive symptoms in later life. This chapter supports providers as they help ...
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Module 8: Skills for Caregiving: Reducing Stress While Helping Others
Ann M. Steffen, Larry W. Thompson, and Dolores Gallagher-Thompson
in Treating Later-Life Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Clinician Guide (2 ed.)
Depression—at the clinical or subsyndromal level—is a commonly reported outcome of informal caregiving (e.g., for parents, partners, grandchildren, disabled children, other members of ...
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies 101
Ann M. Steffen, Larry W. Thompson, and Dolores Gallagher-Thompson
in Treating Later-Life Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Clinician Guide (2 ed.)
This chapter serves as a brief orientation to cognitive-behavioral therapies across problem areas and populations. At its heart, cognitive-behavioral therapy is a theoretical orientation to ...
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Introduction to This Workbook
Ann M. Steffen, Leah P. Dick-Siskin, Ann Choryan Bilbrey, Larry W. Thompson, and Dolores Gallagher-Thompson
in Treating Later-Life Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Workbook (2 ed.)
This culturally responsive workbook uses the evidence-based methods of cognitive behavioral therapy to help middle-aged and older adults build on existing strengths and reduce symptoms of ...
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A Concise Review of Gerontology/Geriatric Medicine
Mark D. Miller
in Clinician's Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy in Late Life: Helping Cognitively Impaired or Depressed Elders and Their Caregivers
Chapter 3 reviews of gerontology and geriatric medicine. It presents background information on gerontology (physiologic changes of aging, the aging process), polypharmacy, the effects of ...
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How to Use This Treatment Approach
Ann M. Steffen, Larry W. Thompson, and Dolores Gallagher-Thompson
in Treating Later-Life Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Clinician Guide (2 ed.)
This chapter provides a general overview of the modular cognitive-behavioral therapy program for later-life depression that is described in this clinician guide. The flexibility of this ...
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Skills for Feeling: Recognizing and Managing Strong Emotions
Ann M. Steffen, Leah P. Dick-Siskin, Ann Choryan Bilbrey, Larry W. Thompson, and Dolores Gallagher-Thompson
in Treating Later-Life Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Workbook (2 ed.)
CBT involves attention to clients’ emotional experiences, both within and between psychotherapy sessions. This workbook module of Treating Later-Life Depression: A Cognitive Behavioral ...
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Skills for Thinking: Self-Compassion and Helpful Thoughts
Ann M. Steffen, Leah P. Dick-Siskin, Ann Choryan Bilbrey, Larry W. Thompson, and Dolores Gallagher-Thompson
in Treating Later-Life Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Workbook (2 ed.)
Harsh self criticism and habitual use of unhelpful thinking patterns can create the context for depressive symptoms in middle-aged and older adults. This workbook module of Treating ...
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Module 5: Skills for Brain Health: Healthy Cognitive Aging
Ann M. Steffen, Larry W. Thompson, and Dolores Gallagher-Thompson
in Treating Later-Life Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Clinician Guide (2 ed.)
This chapter supports providers as they help middle-aged and older adults manage age-related changes in cognitive functioning and engage in daily living that is consistent with their ...
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Skills for Living with Loss: Bereavement and Grief
Ann M. Steffen, Leah P. Dick-Siskin, Ann Choryan Bilbrey, Larry W. Thompson, and Dolores Gallagher-Thompson
in Treating Later-Life Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Workbook (2 ed.)
Deaths become more common with increasing age, including the deaths of pets, close friends, parents, siblings, and life partners. Other important losses can be related to retirement, ...
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Skills for Wrapping Up: Finishing Treatment
Ann M. Steffen, Leah P. Dick-Siskin, Ann Choryan Bilbrey, Larry W. Thompson, and Dolores Gallagher-Thompson
in Treating Later-Life Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Workbook (2 ed.)
Psychotherapy termination is anticipated and discussed from the beginning of CBT, but this can be a difficult phase of treatment for some middle-aged and older adults. This personalized ...
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Common Cognitive Slip-Ups
Colette M. Smart
in Wisdom Mind: Mindfulness for Cognitively Healthy Older Adults and Those With Subjective Cognitive Decline, Facilitator Guide
At the core of Wisdom Mind is the premise that normal cognitive aging can be a source of distress for certain older adults, and that mindfulness practice can help to alleviate that ...
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