Geriatric Psychotherapy
People with dementia can manage depression and anxiety with professional help. Insight and introspection are important in developing coping strategies to contend with all geriatric conditions.
Since coming to New Hampshire in 1984, I’ve had office practices for individuals, families and groups. Theories and practice techniques for therapies evolve often, with variation and new approaches every few years.
The common denominator is always the relationship-building of trust and confidence. People meet as strangers, then develop into exchanges about psychological, intellectual, and emotional skills to solve personal, family, and occupational challenges.
The therapist doesn’t have the solutions. He helps people find their own by shifting the ways people look at their psychological strengths and weaknesses for dealing with life. The most effective and widely practiced approach, which I favor, is called cognitive behavioral therapy.
People have choices for psychological remedies, including medications, which I don’t prescribe but endorse, and “talk therapies” like the cognitive behavioral approach. People can choose one approach or the other, or both.
When depression, anxiety, fears, phobias and such cause great distress at home or work, I encourage them to consider medications while continuing with talk therapy. I limit my practice to adults and elders.
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