Cognitive therapy integrated with life review techniques: an eclectic treatment approach for affective symptoms in...

This paper describes an advanced practice mental health nurse's experience of combining the two distinct psychotherapeutic approaches into one treatment strategy for a group of older people in an American outpatient psychotherapy clinic. The main issue being experienced by the participants was unresolved grief following the death of a partner. By the end of the 12-week process, six of the seven group members were reporting an improvement which was sufficient to enable them to be discharged from treatment.