Reaching and Engaging Depressed Senior Center Clients (REDS)

Engage is a stepped care psychotherapy based on what is known about how older adults respond to depression interventions. Stepped care is a model of treatment that starts with the minimum effective therapeutic techniques first, and then based on how well people respond to treatment, additional therapeutic techniques are added until people are recovered from their depression.

An active intervention focusing on psychoeducation and de-stigmatization of health and mental health conditions. These sessions are commonly part of senior centers programs. W-MH will offer mental health referral to a clinic or primary care physician as part of senior center procedures for clients with positive PHQ-9s.