[Mental health through management of personal projects: an intervention with young retired people].
A personal goal-based intervention was offered to retired people aged 50 to 65 years with the objective of increasing their subjective well-being and their mental health. More specifically, the program presented here was aimed to promote the setting, planning, and realization of personal projects through a learning process based on a cognitive approach. At the end of the program, the experimental group (n = 117) had improved significantly more than the control group (n = 177) on all the goal and subjective well-being indicators, and this gain was maintained six months later. Some ideas to make the program more effective are discussed.
Dubé
Micheline
M
Laboratoire de gérontologie, Département de psychologie, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.
Bouffard
Léandre
L
Lapierre
Sylvie
S
Alain
Michel
M
D000368:Aged; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012179:Retirement / Q000523:psychology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome