Sex differences in psychotherapy with older people.

Examines sex-related differences in late-middle and old age that influence the initiation, process, and goals of psychotherapy with older patients. These differences include demographic characteristics, responses to health problems and physical changes, psychiatric symptoms and diagnoses, and strengths. Possible barriers to these therapeutic goals and implications of historical shifts in sex roles in society are discussed. (68 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)