Treating loneliness Flashcards

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Most effective methods

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Improving social skills

Enhancing social support

Increasing opportunities for social contact

Addressing Maladaptive social cognition

However; Only moderate effectiveness.

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Problems with previous interventions

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Loneliness is seen as a unidimensional concept
Focus on one contributing factor

Complexity and diversity is often overlooked.

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Pilot intervention of CBT

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Aimed to alleviate loneliness, Tried to
- Make it personal
- Gave psychoeducation
- Included more maintaining factors
- Guiding attention in social situations
- Changing maladaptive thoughts
- Practise interpersonal skills

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Results

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Emotional loneliness: moderate decrease

Social loneliness; no decrease

Explained by the idea that it still aimed at the personal /micro level of loneliness. This is still only a small part of all that influences loneliness (macro/societal an meso community)

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