Educational Objectives:

This course will teach psychotherapists to
• Explain how and why American life expectancy has jumped from 47 to 77 years between 1900 and 2000.
• Utilize in their work with their clients the 4 attitudes that foster living longer, healthier and happier.
• Define the biological, social and psychological aspects of aging.
• Utilize in their work 36 beliefs that foster living longer, healthier and happier.
• Demonstrate a positive outlook about living well into one's hundreds.
• Describe strategies for clarifying and enhancing our self-concepts as our clients' age.

Course Syllabus: Book's Table of Contents

• You Are Going to Live Longer - Will You Choose to Live Well?
  The longevity paradigm shift
  • What can current centenarians tell us?
  • What does it take to live well over a hundred years?
  • A vision of the future and an ageless society.
  • Why live so long?
  • The choice.
• 36 Beliefs That Foster Your Longevity
  • How beliefs profoundly affect our mental and physical health.
  • Beliefs that promote aging and beliefs that promote longevity.
• Optimism, Gratitude and Embracing Lifelong Learning and Change
  • Optimistic and pessimistic dogs.
  • What optimists do that is different.
  • Explanatory Style of Optimists and Pessimists.
  • Pessimists experience more depression.
  • Pessimists have more health problems.
  • Optimists are better liked and more successful.
  • Pessimists can become optimists.
  • When you shouldn't be an optimist.
  • Optimistic and pessimistic metaphors.
  • Gratitude and perspective.
  • Other ways to feel gratitude.
  • Embracing lifelong learning and change.
• Resources
• References

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