Psychologische behandeling van persoonlijkheidsstoornissen bij ouderen: Stand van zaken en suggesties voor onderzoek

Despite a still reigning therapeutic nihilism, attention for the psychological treatment of personality disorders in older adults has been growing recently. The first empirical studies have been conducted, but their number is still limited, and varies from expert consensus to the first tests of effectiveness of schema therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Therefore, there is an urgent need for further empirical studies into psychological treatments that have been optimized for older adults on all three treatment levels.