Problem-solving therapy and supportive therapy in older adults with major depression and executive dysfunction: Effect on disability

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-41

  Alexopoulos, George S ^a   Raue, Patrick J ^a   Kiosses, Dimitris N ^a   MacKin, R Scott ^b   Kanellopoulos, Dora ^a   McCulloch, Charles ^c   Areán, Patricia A ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISABILITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXECUTIVE DYSFUNCTION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SUPPORTIVE THERAPY; TREATMENT DURATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONDIRECTIVE THERAPY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78650887102     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2010.177     Document Type: Article

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