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| Pretherapy training for group cognitive therapy with depressed older adults | | Author(s) | David Latour, Philippe Cappeliez |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 13, no 2, Summer 1994 |
| Pages | pp 221-235 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Therapy ; Psychiatric treatment ; Group work ; Evaluation ; Canada. |
| Annotation | This study was devised to determine the effectiveness of a pre-therapy training procedure in enhancing group cognitive therapy for depressed older people. 29 subjects were randomly assigned to a pre-therapy training condition or an attention-placebo condition. Subjects were aged 65 and over, had a score of 14 or higher on the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) or on the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), and had no previous experience in psychotherapy. The pre-therapy training procedure was based on Bandura's social cognitive theory and included verbal persuasion, vicarious experience, and performance accomplishment. The pre-therapy training improved knowledge about psychotherapy and promoted the development of a problem-oriented focus in therapy. However, it was unsuccessful in significantly reducing drop-outs, increasing attendance, modifying role expectancies in the expected direction, and differentially affecting the outcome of cognitive therapy. For the experimental and control conditions taken together, 53.7% of the subjects demonstrated clinically significant improvement at the end of therapy. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-970821231 A |
| Classmark | ENR: LO: LP: IGG: 4C: 7S |
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