The Application Of The Conjoint Family Therapy To The Aging Depression

Nowadays,like many people,the elders may face with more dangers while suffer more stress from their works and daily life by the fast pace of the social progress.According to the statistics of the civil administration department,up to December,2015,the total permanent aging population over 60 s in Shenzhen had already exceed 1,190,000,which had reached to the 6.9% of the city population.As the aging population increasing,the demand in pension,medical treatment caring,nursing and rehabilitation increase rapidly,which will bring new and severe challenge to the social.The enormous aging population will highlight more and more physical and mental problems exist in the group of elders.However,as one of the most commend psychological problems,DEPRESSION affect the elder patients' life quality as well as physical function severely.Moreover,it can cause the mortality increase of this group.Therefore,we should pay more attention on the positive effect of psychological guidance.What's more,the community should also pay close attention to the elders' daily life.To combine with the depression show up among the aging group and also to respond the proposition raised by Chairman Xi that “Pay close attention to our family,family education and family spirit.” since the 18 th NPC,this essay will focus on the case studying about the application of Conjoint Family Therapy on the depression among the elders.This essay combines methodology of literature analysis,questionnaire and observational methods in the study of the application of Conjoint Family Therapy on the depression among the elders.We divided the experiment objects into test group and control group.The observational group was consisted with three elder patients whose depression scores were higher than 8 points.During the experiment,these patients were treated with Conjoint Family Therapy for over two months.And the control group was consisted with three elder patients whose depression scores were higher than 8 points too.According to the scale(GDS-15)of aging depression,we assessed the performance of the patients in this experiment,which validated the effect of the service.The depressive level of the patients in the experimental group dropped to 6,7,6 from12,9,8.As to the control group,the depressive level of the patients were 8,9,8 before they receive the service.The levels were 8,8,8 in the end,which shows no obvious difference.Conclusion,Conjoint Family Therapy have a good effect on the application of dealing with the aging case of depression.We advise that the social workers can try to combine theory of the conjoint family therapy with the social support to the interventional treatment of the aging depression.