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
• The Evidence That Many People Will Live 150 Years
• Finances for a Long Lifetime
• Managing Risks of Old Age
• Who Will Live to 150 or Longer?
• References

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