Psychotherapeutic Support for Family Caregivers of People With Dementia: The Tele.TAnDem Manual

This handbook addresses the extremely challenging situation that family caregivers of people with dementia face and is informed by the use of evidence-based psychotherapeutic strategies to support them.

It guides readers step-by-step through effective therapeutic strategies, mainly based on cognitive-behavioral therapy, and illustrated with excerpts of dialogs between therapists and family caregivers from real sessions.

Different modules address topics such as dealing with challenging behavior, self-care, perfectionism and guilt, and changes in the relationship with the ill person, barriers to seeking social and professional support, stress management and emotion regulation, accepting one's own limits, and dealing with institutionalization.