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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Older Adults: A Preliminary Report

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Julie Loebach Wetherell *
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Afari, Niloofar
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Ayers, Catherine R.
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Stoddard, Jill A.
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Ruberg, Joshua
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Sorrell, John T.
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Liu, Lin
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Andrew J. Petkus
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Thorp, Steven R.
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Kraft, Alexander
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Patterson, Thomas L.
DOI:10.1016/j.beth.2010.07.002delete
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Some evidence suggests that acceptance-based approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) may be well-suited to geriatric generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). The primary goal of this project was to determine whether ACT was feasible for this population. Seven older primary-care patients with GAD received 12 individual sessions of ACT; another 9 were treated with cognitive-behavioral therapy. No patients dropped out of ACT, and worry and depression improved. Findings suggest that ACT may warrant a large-scale investigation with anxious older adults.
Keywords:
RANDOMIZED-CONTROLLED-TRIAL
LATE-LIFE ANXIETY
QUALITY-OF-LIFE
COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY
PRIMARY-CARE PATIENTS
SELF-REGULATION
INVENTORY-II
DEPRESSION
AGE
HEALTH
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