Resilience and Late-Life Depression: Clinical features; Biomarkers; and Interventions

Resilience and Late-Life Depression: Clinical features; Biomarkers; and Interventions is organized by American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP).

Start Date: Sep 02, 2021
End Date: Sep 02, 2022

Description:
Psychological resilience has been broadly defined as “the capacity to maintain, or regain, psychological well-being in the face of challenge” Resilience is a complex construct that can be conceptualized as an attribute (a trait) that is possessed to varying degrees by different individuals, a dynamic process (a state) with bidirectional relations to developmental and environmental factors, and as an outcome in the face of stress and adversity. Few studies have investigated resilience in depression, and even fewer have examined resilience in depressed older adults and as a target for novel interventions to treat depression. In this presentation, clinical features of resilience relevant for depression outcomes will be discussed. The biomarkers of resilience will be presented. Approaches to using mind-body and antidepressant interventions boosting psychological and cognitive resilience will be highlighted.

Objectives for Webinar:
• The definitions of resilience
• Describe biomarkers of psychological resilience
• Resilience as predictor of response to antidepressant treatment
• Resilience-enhancing Mind-body and pharmacological therapies that improve clinical outcomes of late life depression