Research has shown that having feelings of agency, or believing that you have power to influence your environment and meet your goals, is correlated with feelings of overall psychological well-being. Feelings of agency have also been shown to sharply decline as people age, due to minimization and invalidation caused by ageism and changes in functioning.
This training is geared primarily towards clinicians interested in increasing their competencies around working with older adults, but may also be beneficial for aging individuals and their support systems to learn about areas where personal agency can be exercised throughout the lifespan, how to build sense of agency in these areas, and how to challenge unhelpful thought processes that prevent us from taking action to live our best lives.
