Article of the month – October 2016

The website committee selected the publication of Zeisel et al. as publication of the month. This article introduces the terminology “Ecopsychosocial interventions” to describe a broad range of interventions that fall into this category. It can replace the term that is now often used and that describes what it is not, namely nonpharmacological interventions. The authors urge and welcome the professional community’s adoption of the new recommended terminology as well as ongoing debate about it and study of topics included in the overall term, especially contextual issues and environmental design.

Zeisel J, Reisberg B, Whitehouse P, Woods R, Verheul A. Ecopsychosocial Interventions in Cognitive Decline and Dementia: A New Terminology and a New Paradigm. Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen. 2016 Sep;31(6):502-7. doi: 10.1177/1533317516650806.