Volume 20 (2023), Edition 4

Loss of positive reinforcement, dysfunctional beliefs, and lack of opportunities for selection, compensation, and optimization in old age can promote the development of late life depression. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) offers numerous...

This article deals with depression in older adults as a result of PTSD and describes along etiologic and diagnostic considerations possibilities of treatment.

Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) is an evidence-based, semi-structured short-term therapy to treat depressions. With some modification it can be used for the treatment of older patients, too. Based on a case study the therapeutic procedure is...

The acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) was further developed from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) within the third wave of CBT. There is good evidence for the effectiveness of ACT in meta-analyses, but elderly patients are underrepresented...

The aim of this paper is to describe a psychotherapeutic intervention for late-life depression in nursing homes. The manual was developed and used within the interdisciplinary research project DAVOS (Tesky et al. 2023). We present content and...

As recent research shows, anxiety symptoms are just as frequent in older patients as are depressive symptoms. Fairly frequent both symptom clusters occur simultaneously, which seems to call for a differentiated analysis of the correlations between...

With increasing age or a life-limiting diagnosis, the awareness of one’s own end of life increases. Besides physical needs, existential psychosocial needs such as the maintaining of self-identity often come to the fore. Existential questions about...