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Reflections on using cognitive therapy with depressed family caregivers of people with dementia
Author(s)Georgina Charlesworth
Journal titlePSIGE Newsletter, no 78, November 2001
PublisherPsychologists' Special Interest Group in Elderly People - PSIGE, British Psychological Society, November 2001
Pagespp 26-30
KeywordsDepression ; Therapy ; Psychiatric treatment ; Family care ; Dementia.
AnnotationThe author draws on workshops on cognitive therapy (CT) interventions for depressed carers which she ran at the PSIGE Conferences in 1999 and 2001. Her article includes an outline of the exercise to raise awareness of four aspects of relevant literature, namely CT, depression, carers, and people with dementia. The article also includes reference to literature on the therapeutic relationship in CT; working with "irrational" Negative Automatic Thoughts (NATs); and examples of cognitive interpersonal cycles and related intervention techniques. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-011203214 A
ClassmarkENR: LO: LP: P6:SJ: EA

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