Dolores Gallagher Thompson, Ph.D, ABPP

Emerita Professor | Stanford University | Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine

Dr. Gallagher-Thompson specializes in treatment of late-life depression and in working with persons with neurocognitive disorders (such as dementia) and their family caregivers/ care partners. She has a long history of providing individual psychotherapy, using a cognitive/behavioral framework (CBT) as part of the Geropsychiatry outpatient clinic at Stanford. She also conducts psychoeducational workshops for caregivers of persons with dementia, to enhance their resilience and adaptive coping skills.

She is a board-certified specialist in Geropsychology (psychology of older adults) and is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been in practice for 30 years. She received her degree in clinical psychology/adult development and aging from the University of Southern California and did her clinical training at UCLA. She has been an NIH-funded researcher for the past 25 years and is most noted for her empirical studies on the efficacy of psychoeducational interventions to reduce stress and improve the psychological well-being of family caregivers of older adults with Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia.

Dr. Gallagher-Thompson is also a former Director of the Outreach, Recruitment and Education Core of the Stanford Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. She has authored over 200 papers in major journals in the field as well as several books and therapeutic treatment manuals.