Positive schemas in schema therapy with older adults: clinical implications and research suggestions.
Arjan C VidelerRita J J van RoyenMarjolein J H LegraMachteld A OuwensPublished in: Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy (2020)
This review suggests that positive schemas may be important vehicles of therapeutic change when working with older people. There is a need for validating the Young Positive Schema Questionnaire (YPSQ) in older adults, and for examining whether integrating EAS in schema therapy with older adults indeed has a positive effect on therapy outcome.