2019
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-019-1045-9
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Psychological Interventions for Dementia Caregivers: What We Have Achieved, What We Have Learned

Abstract: With the rising dementia population, more and more programs have been developed to help caregivers deal with the care-recipient as well as their own frustrations. Many interventions aim to enhance caregiver’s ability to manage behavior problems and other deteriorations in functioning, with less direct emphasis placed on caring for the caregivers. We argue that techniques based on psychotherapy are strategically important in assistance provided to caregivers because of their utility for promoting emotional heal… Show more

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“…Moreover, these psychoeducational programs are best characterized as providing CBT principles and techniques to facilitate self-help by caregivers, rather than directly applying CBT to modify caregivers' thoughts and behaviors [78]. Therefore, merging these psychoeducation programs with CBT obscures important differences between them.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Moreover, these psychoeducational programs are best characterized as providing CBT principles and techniques to facilitate self-help by caregivers, rather than directly applying CBT to modify caregivers' thoughts and behaviors [78]. Therefore, merging these psychoeducation programs with CBT obscures important differences between them.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The foregoing discussion suggests the importance of matching interventions to caregivers' needs [78], and to select outcomes sensitively vis-à-vis what the intervention is intended to achieve. Recruiting the wrong participants (e.g., non-depressed caregivers for a CBT program) or measuring inappropriate outcomes may result in failures in detecting intervention effects.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Over the last few decades, there has been a rapid increase in the number of psychological programmes, therapies, and interventions used to help improve the emotional well‐being of family carers of older adult populations. Broadly, this has included four main intervention types: psychoeducation‐skill building, counseling/ psychotherapy, multicomponent interventions, and approaches based on the principles of mindfulness, acceptance, and compassion . Of these interventions, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) has been most consistently evidenced in the family caregiving literature, and moderate to large effects have been shown for carers on the outcomes of burden, anxiety, and depression .…”
Section: Psychological Interventions For Family Carers Of Older Adultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…32 Of these interventions, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) has been most consistently evidenced in the family caregiving literature, and moderate to large effects have been shown for carers on the outcomes of burden, anxiety, and depression. 32 More recently, however, there is also emerging evidence for the potential efficacy of newer, so-called "third-wave" approaches, such as acceptance and commitment therapy, 33 dialectical behaviour therapy, 34 mindfulness-based stress reduction, 35 and compassion-focused therapy. 36 Evolving from a CBT framework, these transdiagnostic approaches seek to explore how a person associates and responds to their symptoms and experiences in order to address thought patterns.…”
Section: Psychological Interventions For Family Carers Of Older Adultsmentioning
confidence: 99%