Psychotherapie im Alter

Dementia represents one of the major health and societal challenges of the 21st century. At the same time, new developments and insights in the fields of prevention strategies, prodromal disease stages, and disease-modifying drugs are shaping...

Cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) is an evidence-based psychosocial treatment for people living with dementia. The manualised intervention aims to improve cognitive and social skills through multisensory, reminiscence-oriented and everyday...

Psychotherapy with older aged adults is considered particularly challenging, especially when cognitive impairments are present. Psychotherapists are faced with the question of how and where they can effectively treat. Acute geriatric psychiatric...

This article reports practice-oriented psychotherapeutic experiences of the Tele.TAnDem intervention (Psychotherapeutic Support for Family Caregivers of People with Dementia) as part of the BerTA study (Counseling and Therapy for Family Caregivers;...

The aim of this pilot study was to investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of cognitive behavioral group therapy for people with early-stage dementia (MmbD) in terms of the group participants’ depression, quality of life, and self-efficacy...

The article investigates relational dynamics within age-discrepant therapeutic dyads involving older patients and significantly younger therapists. Drawing on three clinical vignettes, it delineates specific transference and countertransference...

Psychodynamic psychotherapy between young therapists and older patients is often shaped by intergenerational tensions, projections, and mutual resonance. Based on the case of a 75-year-old woman following a car accident, this article explores core...

Although younger psychotherapists increasingly work with older patients, there is little research on their experiences within this age-discrepant therapeutic dyad. This study explores how younger psychodynamic psychotherapists experience...

The question of whether younger psychotherapists can effectively treat older patients – and which factors contribute to the success of this therapeutic relationship – is of central importance to patients, therapists, and their environment alike....

Systemic Therapy (ST) was approved as an evidence-based psychotherapy approach for adults in Germany in 2020, making it eligible for reimbursement through statutory health insurance. ST focuses on the interaction between an index patient’s...

The communication with older patients from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds is frequently characterised by misunderstandings. In order to ensure that the social background of many patients does not become an obstacle, it is imperative that...

In discussions about psychotherapy of older people, it is often argued that it is more important to deal with current age-specific conflicts than to work through unconscious complexes originating in childhood. Psychoanalytic treatments sui generis...

Based on his own experiences as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in the social psychiatric reform movement in the Kassel region and on his teaching and research experience as a university lecturer in social therapy at the University of Kassel, the...