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GENERAL COURSE DESCRIPTION
This is an intermediate-advanced course about the psychology of aging. Americans are living decades longer, but do we know how to live well into our hundreds? The course, developed by Michael Brickey, Ph.D., ABPP, is solidly based in psychological research and studies of vital centenarians. The course holistically integrates biological, social and psychological research and skills. The materials are excerpted from Defy Aging by Michael Brickey, Ph.D., ABPP. The course helps therapists learn strategies for making shifts in attitudes and beliefs, and develop coping skills for helping clients live longer, healthier and happier. Lifestyle issues addressed include:
Developing attitudes, beliefs and coping skills for living well into your hundreds with vitality, good health, and a sense of purpose.
Resiliently dealing with outliving friends and family.
Developing, honing, and continually updating mission, purpose, self-concept and self-esteem.
Making marriage last a lifetime.
Strategies for quickly, effortlessly, and painlessly changing beliefs.
Educational Objectives:
This course will teach psychotherapists to
Identify attitudes, beliefs and coping skills that facilitate living longer, healthier, and happier.
Summarize research-based practical life-planning strategies to help growth-oriented clients live well into their hundreds.
Summarize practical resilient strategies for dealing with friends and family members dying.
Summarize strategies for clarifying and enhancing our self-concepts as we age.
Describe how to help clients develop an 11-level written life plan.
Integrate biological, social and psychological research on Aging.
Apply research-based practical strategies to help clients have longer, more fulfilling marriages.
Course Syllabus:
36 Beliefs that Foster Your Longevity
How to Change Beliefs About the Biological, Social and Psychological Aspects of Aging.
The Be-attitudes: Optimism, Gratitude, Dealing with It, and Embracing Lifelong Learning and Change
A Lifetime of Mission and Purpose
Married for a Hundred Years?
Sex
Outliving Friends and Family
Time and Change
Fitness: Emotional vs. Outcome-based Choices
Appendix: List of 36 Beliefs
Appendix: Example of a Comprehensive Mission Statement
