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Julie Loebach Wetherell1, Niloofar Afari, Catherine R Ayers, Jill A Stoddard, Joshua Ruberg, John T Sorrell, Lin Liu, Andrew J Petkus, Steven R Thorp, Alexander Kraft, Thomas L Patterson.
Abstract
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.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID： 21292059 PMCID： PMC3496779 DOI： 10.1016/j.beth.2010.07.002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Behav Ther ISSN： 0005-7894