Treating loneliness Flashcards
Most effective methods
Improving social skills
Enhancing social support
Increasing opportunities for social contact
Addressing Maladaptive social cognition
However; Only moderate effectiveness.
Problems with previous interventions
Loneliness is seen as a unidimensional concept
Focus on one contributing factor
Complexity and diversity is often overlooked.
Pilot intervention of CBT
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
Results
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)