Psychotherapie im Alter

Theory of mind (ToM) is understood as a vital capacity in social interaction. While numerous findings prove a decrease of competence in old age, it is not clear which impact this has on the health-related aspects of quality of life. In a substudy of...

Views on aging are complex and diverse: They can pertain to young, old, or very old individuals, to others (»the elderly«), or to ourselves when we are old. These views on aging contain varying and sometimes even contradictory content, depending...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In drawing some case vignettes of the so called baby boomers’ early years the author points out their heterogenity. While he questions clichés of them being pampered and pretentious he differentiates the profile of the generation that is about to...

The generation of babyboomers is sketched out between their upbringing with high expectations as grandchildren of war in the »economic miracle«, unconscious delegation of reparation wishes, possibilities of self-realization and with crises after...

The climate crisis and its consequences are presented especially regarding the aspects of climate justice and injustice. The older generation is contrasted with the younger generation and both are described in terms of their mutual apportionment of...

»Millennials« and »Generation Y« refer to the birth cohorts from 1980 to the end of the 1990s. Their parents are the boomers. In this paper, the perspective of the younger generation on the Boomer generation will be presented. A report of...