Innovative psychosocial approaches in old age psychiatry

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 527-531

  Yassuda, Mônica Sanches ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Department and Institute of Psychiatry   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cognitive training; Dementia; Psychiatric disorders; Psychosocial interventions

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY DISORDER; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MUSIC THERAPY; PHOTOTHERAPY; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PSYCHOSOCIAL REHABILITATION; REVIEW; SLEEP DISORDER; TERMINAL CARE;

AGED; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COGNITION DISORDERS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEMENTIA; GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MUSIC THERAPY; PHOTOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 70350166211     PISSN: 09517367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/YCO.0b013e3283304128     Document Type: Review

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