Psychological Interventions with People with Dementia

Handbook of the Clinical Psychology of Ageing: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 523-548

  Woods, Bob ^a   Clare, Linda ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition focused approaches; Negative attitudes and 'malignant social psychology'; Psychodynamic listening and mutual understanding; Stimulation and activity approaches; Validation therapy (VT) emotion focused approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957318098     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470773185.ch31     Document Type: Chapter

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