“…For treatment of depression, CBT has been found to be either superior to a control condition or not significantly different than another EBT with older adults (Shah et al, 2012). Improvement in depressive symptoms has been observed in many studies with older adults over the years (Bilbrey et al, 2020;Campbell, 1992;Floyd et al, 2004;Gallagher & Thompson, 1982;Karlin et al, 2015) utilizing CBT. In addition to late life depression, CBT has also been shown to be effective in treating anxiety disorders (Andreescu & Varon, 2015;Ayers et al, 2007;Bower et al, 2015;Gorenstein et al, 2005;Hall et al, 2016), insomnia (Ludwin et al, 2018;McCurry et al, 2007;Rybarczyk et al, 2005;Vitiello et al, 2009), and chronic pain (Niknejad et al, 2018;Vitiello et al, 2009) in older adults.…”