Psychotherapy for Depression in Older Adults
Chapter One
Unique Aspects of
Psychotherapy with
Older Adults
Bob G. Knight
In the past, older clients were often subjected to negative stereotyping
and inaccurate generalizations that hindered their access to and success
in psychotherapy. A loss-deficit model of aging took a negative approach
to life span development and portrayed the normative course of later life
as a series of losses and the typical response as depression (Berezin, 1963;
Gitelson, 1948). More recently, writing about therapy with older adults
has drawn on scientific gerontology rather than stereotypes and has portrayed
the process of aging in a more positive light (Knight, Nordhus, &
Satre, 2003; Knight & Satre, 1999). This has led to the proposal of a contextual,
cohort-based maturity/specific challenge model (CCMSC;
Knight, 2004).
BACKGROUND: THE CONTEXTUAL,
COHORT-BASED MATURITY/SPECIFIC
CHALLENGE MODEL
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