Intervention Models in old age

Recommended Prerequisites

compulsory units of the area

Teaching Methods

Lectures and experiences.

Learning Outcomes

Aging is a privilege and a social acquisition – it is also a challenge with an impact on all aspects of our society.

This unit explores the impact on the psychotherapeutic approaches and explains the different possibilities of intervention with the elderly.

Learning Outcomes

To recognize the limitations and advantages of the different theoretical orientations and proposals discussed.

To know how to apply different main theoretical orientations to clinical cases.

To acquire competence to develop programs of intervention in elderly, in the different areas of intervention of the psychologist.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

 Syllabus
1.  Models of intervention in old age: introductory aspects

2.  Loss and Mourning: comprehensive models and intervention strategies.
- Loss and grief as regulatory processes of the life cycle.
- Diagnostic issues and Comprehensive models.
- Specific issues in the 3rd age: loss of identity and interpersonal losses.
- Strategies for assessment and therapeutic intervention in mourning
- Mindfulness-based therapy for depression
- Counselling on transitions / reminiscence therapy

3. Cognitive deterioration and dementia
- Orientation to reality
- Validation and resolution therapy
- Therapies with animals
- Sensory stimulation

4. Intervention in Abuse and maltreatment
- Prevention
- Evaluation
- Brief therapies and supportive therapies

5. Intervention Group: from support group to group psychotherapy in old age
- Advantages and therapeutic factors of group intervention
- Types of group intervention
- Gestalt therapy
- The expressive therapies and art

Head Lecturer(s)

Margarida Maria Batista Mendes Pedroso Lima

Assessment Methods

Assessment
The final grade for the unit is obtained by: - Type B exam: Group work, research and knowledge application through a Worksheet based on a clinical case - Type A exam: Final exam : 100.0%

Bibliography

Knight, B.G. (2004). Psychotherapy with older adults, 3rd edition. Thousand Oaks (CA): Sage. Publications.

Sorocco, K. H. & Lauderdale, S. (Eds.) (2011). Cognitive behavior therapy with older adults: Innovations across care settings. New York: Springer.

Frazer, D. W., Hinrichsen, G. A., & Jongsma, A. E. (Eds.) (2011). The older adult psychotherapy treatment planner. New York: Wiley.

Gallagher-Thompson, D., Steffen, A. M., & Thompson, L. W. (Eds.) (2010). Handbook of behavioral and cognitive therapies with older adults. New York: Springer.

Laidlaw, K. & Knight, B. (Eds.) (2008). Handbook of emotional disorders in later life: Assessment and treatment. New York: Oxford University Press.

Miller, M. D. (2009). Clinician's guide to interpersonal psychotherapy in late life: Helping cognitively impaired or depressed elders and their caregivers. New York: Oxford University Press.

Knight, B. G. (2004). Psychotherapy with older adults (3^rd ed.). New York: Sage