CORE--QUALITY OF LIFE

行为过程研究实验室致力于 阐明身体和精神健康问题与 日常行为和情绪功能。在此之前的活动 劳顾会在实质性和方法论上为 对老年人心理健康的研究。目前拟议的活动 将继续并扩大这些活动，以符合 儿童权利公约关于治疗和预防干预措施的效力和有效性 患有共同健康问题的老年人的精神障碍。 行为过程实验室的具体目标是：(1)描述 抑郁症和其他精神疾病的有效和行为伴随 患有共同疾病的老年人的精神障碍，包括 (2)确定痴呆的情感和行为预测因子。 发展、进程和责任，包括痴呆症；(2)确定 情感和行为预测的发展，过程，和 对治疗老年精神障碍的反应性；(3)发展 并验证创新的行为方法用于预防和治疗 晚年精神障碍，以及(4)发展和验证创新 有效率和有效性评价的方法和措施 这样的干预。行为过程实验室将实现以下目标 目的主要是通过一系列有针对性的研究项目来审查 相关的心理、行为和人际过程 晚年身心健康。这些研究集中在不同的 人口、措施和方法，但都涉及个人内部和 人与人之间的过程，导致或导致抑郁症的 在身体虚弱的老年人中。为此提出的具体项目 资助期包括：(1)制定和实施 促进适应长期住院护理的干预措施；(2) 老年人日常社会支持与生活质量的初步研究 乳腺癌化疗后；(3)发展和 实施一项开展心理治疗的治疗方案 患有痴呆症的抑郁症老年人；(4)应对和应对能力检查 终末期肾脏疾病的适应性，以及(5)与 两组慢性病患者之间的日常互动 及其家庭照顾者：所有年龄段的艾滋病患者，以及 认知完好、患有慢性病的老年人。

The Laboratory for the Study of Behavioral Processes is dedicated to elucidating the associations of physical and mental health problems with everyday behavioral and emotional functioning. Previous activities of this lab have made important substantive and methodological contributions to the study of mental health in older people. Currently proposed activities will continue and extend those activities in keeping with the focus of the CRC on efficacy and effectiveness of interventions to treat and prevent mental disorders among older persons with co-morbid health problems. Specific aims of the Behavioral Processes Lab are: (1) to characterize the effective and behavioral concomitants of depression and other mental disorders among older persons with co-morbid medical illness, including dementia; (2) to identify affective and behavioral predictors of the development, course, and responsivity including dementia; (2) to identify affective and behavioral predictors of the development, course, and responsivity to treatment of late life mental disorders; (3) to develop and validate innovate behavioral methods for prevention and treatment of late life mental disorders, and (4) to develop and validate innovate methods and measures for evaluating the efficacy and the effectiveness of such interventions. The Behavioral Processes Laboratory will achieve these aims primarily through a series of focused research projects examining psychological, behavioral, and interpersonal processes associated with physical and mental health in late life. These studies focus on diverse populations, measures, and methods, but all deal with intrapersonal and interpersonal processes, leading to, or resulting from depressive illness among physically frail older persons. Specific projects proposed for this funding period include: (1) development and implementation of an intervention to facilitate adaptation to long-term residential care; (2) pilot research on everyday social support and quality of life during and following chemotherapy for breast cancer; (3) development and implementation of a treatment protocol for conducting psychotherapy with depressed older persons with dementia; (4) examination of coping and adaptation in end-stage renal disease, and (5) interrelated studies of daily interactions between two populations of chronically ill individuals and their family caregivers: Persons with AIDS of all ages, and cognitively intact, chronically ill older persons.