Psychological Assessment and Therapy with Older Adults
Bob G. Knight and Nancy A. Pachana
Elderly people require some form of psychological support at some point in their later years. The types of problems faced by this population are quite distinct and often more complex than ...
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Interpersonal psychotherapy as a treatment for late-life depression
Gregory A. Hinrichsen
in Handbook of Emotional Disorders in Later Life: Assessment and Treatment
This chapter explores interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) as a treatment for late-life depression. Using a case study, it discusses social factors and depression, the origins of IPT for ...
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Assessment and treatment of anxiety in later life
Jeffrey A. Cully and Melinda A. Stanley
in Handbook of Emotional Disorders in Later Life: Assessment and Treatment
This chapter explores the assessment and treatment of anxiety in later life, and addresses the importance and complexity of diagnosing and treating late-life anxiety disorders, with a ...
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Assessment and treatment of depression
Kaci Fairchild and Forrest Scogin
in Handbook of Emotional Disorders in Later Life: Assessment and Treatment
This chapter discusses the presentation of depression in older adults and some of the challenges clinicians face when diagnosing and treating depression in this population. It explores ...
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Aging and Coping: The Activity Solution
Gail M. Williamson and W. Keith Dooley
in Coping with Stress: Effective People and Processes
This chapter discusses stressful events of aging, stress and coping in late life, and the Activity Restriction Model of Depressed Affect. It focuses on a specific type of coping–maintaining ...
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Assessment and psychosocial intervention for older people with suspected dementia: a memory clinic perspective
Esme Moniz-Cook
in Handbook of Emotional Disorders in Later Life: Assessment and Treatment
This chapter provides an overview of memory clinics in the United Kingdom, a conceptual basis for rehabilitation, and an update of a previous summary of psychosocial intervention. The ...
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Module 5: Feeling Tools
Larry W. Thompson, Leah Dick-Siskin, David W. Coon, David V. Powers, and Dolores Gallagher-Thompson
in Treating Late Life Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Workbook
This chapter discusses feeling tools to help with CBT for late-life depression, including the importance of relaxation, awareness of anxiety, keeping a tension diary, relaxation training, ...
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Module 6: Communication Tools
Larry W. Thompson, Leah Dick-Siskin, David W. Coon, David V. Powers, and Dolores Gallagher-Thompson
in Treating Late Life Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Workbook
This chapter discusses communication tools to help with CBT for late-life depression, including the communication continuum (passive, aggressive, and effective/assertive communication ...
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Module 2: Identifying Target Complaints and Setting Goals
Larry W. Thompson, Leah Dick-Siskin, David W. Coon, David V. Powers, and Dolores Gallagher-Thompson
in Treating Late Life Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Workbook
This chapter discusses identification of target complaints and setting goals in CBT for late-life depression, including steps to identify and prioritize target complaints, rating scales for ...
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Module 3: Doing Tools
Dolores Gallagher-Thompson and Larry W. Thompson
in Treating Late Life Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Therapist Guide
This chapter describes the third module of CBT for late-life depression, which focuses on activity tools, including behavioral activation, activity monitoring, activity scheduling, the ...
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Module 2: Identifying Target Complaints and Setting Goals
Dolores Gallagher-Thompson and Larry W. Thompson
in Treating Late Life Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Therapist Guide
This chapter describes the second module of CBT for late-life depression, which focuses on the identification of target complaints and setting goals. It includes a review of home practice, ...
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Module 6: Communication Tools
Dolores Gallagher-Thompson and Larry W. Thompson
in Treating Late Life Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Therapist Guide
This chapter outlines the sixth module of CBT for late-life depression, which covers communication tools, including the communication continuum (passive, aggressive, and effective/assertive ...
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Assessment and treatment issues in bereavement in later life
Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, Tamarra Dupart, Weiling Liu, Heather Gray, Tamiko Eto, and Larry W. Thompson
in Handbook of Emotional Disorders in Later Life: Assessment and Treatment
This chapter reviews demographic information regarding bereavement in later life with emphasis on death of a spouse, which is generally accepted as the most common and traumatic life event ...
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Issues in assessment and intervention for distress in Alzheimer caregivers
Louis D. Burgio, Bettina Schmid, and Misti N. Johnson
in Handbook of Emotional Disorders in Later Life: Assessment and Treatment
This chapter discusses issues in assessment and intervention for distress in Alzheimer caregivers. It aims to synthesize the conclusions of research literature, and discusses the major ...
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Psychological assessment and treatment with older adults: past trends and future directions
Bob G. Knight and Gia Robinson Shurgot
in Handbook of Emotional Disorders in Later Life: Assessment and Treatment
The purpose of this chapter is to describe current demographic trends and themes that will influence the assessment of and psychotherapy with older adults in the years to come. The goal is ...
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Schemas and schema-focused approaches with older people
Ian A. James
in Handbook of Emotional Disorders in Later Life: Assessment and Treatment
This chapter provides a critical overview of the role and use of schemas in cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), including their relevance to psychotherapy for older people and people with ...
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Contextual adult lifespan theory for adapting psychotherapy
Bob G. Knight and Lewina O. Lee
in Handbook of Emotional Disorders in Later Life: Assessment and Treatment
This chapter discusses the Contextual Adult Lifespan Theory for Adapting Psychotherapy (CALTAP). It considers cohort effects, cultural adaptations, context, maturation (negative and ...
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Cognitive behaviour therapy with depressed older people
Ken Laidlaw and Larry W. Thompson
in Handbook of Emotional Disorders in Later Life: Assessment and Treatment
This chapter aims to provide clinicians with a comprehensive and clinically useful review of the issues in the assessment and treatment of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) with older ...
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Caregiver family therapy
Sara H. Qualls
in Handbook of Emotional Disorders in Later Life: Assessment and Treatment
This chapter describes an approach to family intervention that considers the family system as the context for care decisions. The intervention model joins a small number of interventions ...
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Handbook of Emotional Disorders in Later Life: Assessment and Treatment
Ken Laidlaw and Bob Knight (eds)
Although the perceptions and realities of ageing have changed markedly over the last few decades, for practitioners working with older people, emotional problems remain a major factor of ...
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