Group therapy in older adults

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 27-32

  Agronin, Marc ^a  

^a Miami Jewish Home Hosp for the Aged   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COPING BEHAVIOR; COUNTER TRANSFERENCE; DEPRESSION; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GROUP THERAPY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MOOD DISORDER; NURSING HOME; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; REVIEW; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 59249108937     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-009-0005-1     Document Type: Review

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