Description |
xv, 270 pages ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Springer series, focus on women |
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Springer series, focus on women.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Contents |
Part One: Gender issues across cultures -- Ch. 1. Introduction: gender issues for aging women -- Ch. 2. A woman's aging body: friend or foe? -- Ch. 3. Cross-cultural perspectives: grandmothers -- Ch. 4. Older women and work -- Ch. 5. Old, African American, and female: political, economic, and historical contexts -- Ch. 6. Women in the middle: caretaking issues in therapy -- Part Two: Therapy issues -- Ch. 7. Mental health and older women -- Ch. 8. Psychodynamic psychotherapy: psychosocial themes in the Eriksonian alliance -- Ch. 9. Feminist psychotherapy with older African American women -- Ch. 10. Older lesbians' concerns and psychotherapy: beyond a footnote to the footnote -- Ch. 11. Strategies for working with women with dementia -- Ch. 12. Working with women with severe communication disorders: three cases -- Part Three: End-of-life issues -- Ch. 13. Dying and death: decisions at the end of life -- Ch. 14. An existential approach: end-of-life issues for women. |
Subject |
Older people.
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Psychotherapy for older people.
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Older people.
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Added Author |
Brody, Claire M.
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ISBN |
0826114687 |
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