Cognitive behaviour therapy with older people

Seeing older age as a time of loss and helplessness too often prevents therapists from providing treatments that can be of enormous benefit to older people. Ken Laidlaw, Larry Thompson, Leah Dick-Siskin and Dolores Gallagher-Thompson draw upon their collective wealth of clinical experience to provid...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Laidlaw, Ken, 1961-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, England ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, [2003]
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvi, 215 pages) : illustrations.
Subjects:
Cognitive therapy.
Psychotherapy for older people.
Electronic books.
Online Access:EBSCOhost - Click here for access
Contents:
  • Working effectively with older people: knowledge & skills
  • Basic gerontology for cognitive therapists
  • Cognitive-behavioural model for older people
  • Cognitive therapy for late life depression
  • CBT for late life depressive disorders
  • Behavioural techniques
  • Dealing with negative thoughts
  • Changing core beliefs and assumptions
  • Cognitive therapy with special issues
  • Anxiety, worry, panic disorder and older people
  • Insomnia and sleep disorders
  • Physical illness, disability and depression
  • Post-stroke depression
  • Depression in dementia and family caregiving
  • Final thoughts
  • What to do when your patient says ...
  • Future directions and innovations in practice.

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