Análisis de los modelos de intervención psicológica aplicados para reducir la ansiedad y depresión en adultos mayores durante la pandemia por COVID-19

Abstract

The present work is a systematization of research experiences, on the analysis of the intervention models applied to treat anxiety and depression in older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, since in the pandemic it was the older adults who were more mindful. impaired in their mental health, coming to present anxious and depressive traits as a result of prolonged isolation. To solve this need to recover the mental health of the elderly, the cognitive behavioral model was the model used by mental health personnel to intervene on anxiety and depression disorders. This research is based on qualitative methodology, with the aim of examining how people feel or perceive a phenomenon in a natural environment and describe it as it is seen from their internal and external perception, the collection of information was through review of literature in scientific articles in Spanish and English languages in the Dialnet, Redalyc, Scielo, PubMed and academic Google data bases, the instruments used were: double-entry matrices and a flowchart that helped organize the information and put its search sequence . The significant results obtained from the research experience were that the cognitive behavioral psychological model was the one that had a prompt response to work on anxiety disorders and depression in older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, positioning it as an effective and the most used due to the positive results it had during and after the interventions.