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Afrontamiento cognitivo conductual de los adultos mayores frente a vulnerabilidades emocionales y psicosociales
(Universidad Santiago de Cali, 2019) Andrade, Amanda Yadiara; Arias Aguirre, Sandra Paulina
The research addresses four current theories on coping strategies in the elderly. A bibliographic review is carried out on the cognitive behavioral theory, which provides the theoretical and practical tools necessary when thinking about the behavior, cognition and emotionality of the human being, as well as the coping strategies that have been theoretically described. Therefore, what is proposed is a work of analysis and synthesis regarding the coping strategies described by the models of: Lazarus and Folkman, Ellis and Beck, Jeffrey Young, and George Kelly regarding the contributions that constitute the cognitive model behavioral as a theoretical body that integrates these contributions, as well as their possible therapeutic applications that respond to the problems that the elderly person is going through: depressive states, anxiety problems, progressive isolation and social discrimination. Thus, the knowledge of coping strategies and their repercussion will lead to think about their incidence in the mental health of the elderly, since these are used to face the changing internal and external circumstances that appear at the biological, organic, social, cultural and psychological