Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Late Life

This workbook is designed for your use as you work together with a therapist to overcome your depression. It contains information on cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and how it can help to reduce the symptoms of depression. Each chapter corresponds to a treatment module, and case examples are presented throughout and provide excellent illustrations of the main points, as well as summary questions, home assignments, and in-session exercises, worksheets, and forms. It explores how your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors work to maintain your depression and how to challenge and modify them in order to improve your mood and quality of life.

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Introductory Information for Therapists

Treating Late Life Depression ◽

10.1093/med-psych/9780195383690.003.0001 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 1-20

Author(s):

Dolores Gallagher-Thompson ◽

Larry W. Thompson

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ◽

Diagnostic Criteria ◽

Treatment Program ◽

Program Implementation ◽

Behavioral Therapy ◽

Late Life ◽

The Elderly ◽

Evidence Base ◽

Cognitive Behavioral ◽

Risks And Benefits

This chapter presents introductory information for therapists on this cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) program for depression in late life, including diagnostic criteria for depression, development of this treatment program and evidence base, recommendations for program implementation, the CBT model of depression in the elderly, risks and benefits of the treatment program, alternative treatments, and an online of the treatment program itself.

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Using virtual reality to improve the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) in the treatment of late-life anxiety: preliminary recommendations for future research

International Psychogeriatrics ◽

10.1017/s1041610214002300 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 27 (7) ◽

pp. 1217-1225 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Sébastien Grenier ◽

Hélène Forget ◽

Stéphane Bouchard ◽

Sébastien Isere ◽

Sylvie Belleville ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ◽

Behavioral Therapy ◽

Late Life ◽

Cognitive Behavioral ◽

Future Research ◽

Older Patient ◽

Imaginal Exposure ◽

Exposure Sessions ◽

New Research

ABSTRACTCognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) using traditional exposure techniques (i.e. imaginal and in vivo) seems less effective to treat anxiety in older adults than in younger ones. This is particularly true when imaginal exposure is used to confront the older patient to inaccessible (e.g. fear of flying) or less tangible/controllable anxiety triggers (e.g. fear of illness). Indeed, imaginal exposure may become less effective as the person gets older since normal aging is characterized by the decline in cognitive functions involved in the creation of vivid/detailed mental images. One way to circumvent this difficulty is to expose the older patient to a virtual environment that does not require the ability to imagine the frightening situation. In virtuo exposure has proven to be efficient to treat anxiety in working-age people. In virtuo exposure could be employed to improve the efficacy of CBT with exposure sessions in the treatment of late-life anxiety? The current paper explores this question and suggests new research avenues.

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