Summary
Contents
Subject index
Going beyond simple procedural modifications, this is the first book to address how the application of gerontology to CBT practice can augment CBT's effectiveness and appropriateness with older people. Taking you step-by-step through the CBT process and supported by clinical case examples, therapeutic dialogue, points for reflection and hints and tips, the book examines: - basic theoretical models in CBT and how to relate them to work with older people; - main behavioural interventions and their practical application; - social context and relevant theories of aging; - implications of assessment, diagnosis and treatment; - issues of anxiety, worry and depression, and more specialist applications of CBT for chronic illnesses; - latest developments, thinking and empirical evidence.
This is an invaluable companion for any clinical psychology, counselling, CBT/IAPT, and social care trainee or professional new to working with older people, especially those who are keen to understand how the application of CBT may be different.
Professor Ken Laidlaw is Head of the Department of Clinical Psychology, University of East Anglia.
Chronicity and Comorbidity
Chronicity and Comorbidity
Learning Objectives
By the end of this chapter you will:
- Understand the different potential challenges of maintaining well-being with longstanding conditions
- Comprehend how to use CBT with older people with chronic comorbid conditions and apply clinical modifications as may be necessary
- Understand how to augment CBT for use with physical conditions using a model of ageing to optimise functioning
- Know how to approach long-term cases and treatment resistant cases using CBT, by thinking in terms of ‘packages of care’
Introduction
Sooner or later when working with older people you are going to be confronted with two issues: comorbidity and chronicity. Due to improved medical procedures, people increasingly survive after strokes, heart attacks, etc., with many older people also developing non-communicable diseases.
Using standard CBT with these clients requires ...
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