Psychotherapeutic interventions with the elderly (IPI)

Recommended Prerequisites

mandatory subjects in the area

Teaching Methods

Lectures and experiential.

Learning Outcomes

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

This course explores the impact on psychotherapeutic approaches.

Learning Outcomes

Acquisition of basic knowledge about mental disorders in advanced adulthood and possibilities of intervention.
1) Understanding of some of the topics likely to appear frequently in therapeutic intervention with the elderly.
2) Understanding of loss and grief in the life cycle and understanding its specificities in the 3^rd age.
3) Knowledge of the comprehensive models (the etiology, manifestations, and maintenance factors) of loss, grief and associated symptoms.
4) Enabling an approach to the reality of clinical intervention by knowing and applying some cognitive-behavioural assessment and intervention techniques to loss and mourning during the 3^rd age.
5) Knowledge of the different contexts of intervention at this level.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Therapy intervention with elderly people: overview
2. Intervention scope and contexts with elderly people
3. Main mental disturbances in advanced adult age.
4. The life cycle model
5. Intervention programmes and plans for elderly people/ psychogerontology projects–development and assessment.
6. Psychological practice with elderly people:
6.i CALTAP:Contextual Adult Lifespan Theory for Adapting Psychotherapy:
– Influences of cohort, culture, context, and maturing
– Age-specific challenges
6.2 The APA guidelines (2004): attitudes, generic knowledge of adult development, ageing and old age, assessment, intervention, consultation, and other support and ongoing education services regarding practice for older adults.
7. Pikes Peak model: attitude, knowledge, and skills for practice in the area of psychogerontology and the core aspects recommended in the basic training to develop those skills.

Head Lecturer(s)

Margarida Maria Batista Mendes Pedroso Lima

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 50.0%
- Type B exam: Group work – research and application of knowledge, with a Worksheet based on a clinical case : 50.0%

Bibliography

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

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

Golden, L. (2008). Case studies in counselling older adults. Upple Saddle River, NJ: Merrill/Prentice-Hall.

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

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

Zarit, S. H. & Zarit, J. M. (2011). Mental disorders in older adults: Fundamentals of assessment and treatment . NY: Sage.