Psychotherapy and Counseling With Older Women: Cross-Cultural, Family, and End-of-Life Issues
Trotman and Brody, along with expert contributors, view older women through a feminist lens and examine social constructs concerning aspects of aging, caregiving, elders' relationships with family, health, body image, and sexuality concerns. The authors define issues that are important to older women and their emotional health and bring into sharp relief some of the painful issues professionals must confront in counseling older women.
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Trotman and Brody, along with expert contributors, view older women through a feminist lens and examine social constructs concerning aspects of aging, caregiving, elders' relationships with family, health, body image, and sexuality concerns. The authors define issues that are important to older women and their emotional health and bring into sharp relief some of the painful issues professionals must confront in counseling older women. Booknews Feminist psychotherapists Trotman and Brody, along with other contributors, examine a range of variety of gender issues affecting aging women and address how they can be dealt with at a therapeutic level. Arguing that the culture's views of older women, aspects of aging, caregiving, elders' relationships with family, and health and sexuality concerns are all based on social constructs, they view pain as often being evidence of resistance to forms of oppression in a male-dominated culture. Hence, feminist psychotherapy should aim for the personal empowerment, dignity, self-fulfillment, and equality of older women. An effort is made to incorporate cross-cultural perspectives into the material. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
ContributorsixForewordxiPrefacexiiiPart 1Gender Issues Across Cultures1Introduction: Gender Issues for Aging Women32A Woman's Aging Body: Friend or Foe?173Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Grandmothers414Older Women and Work585Old, African American, and Female: Political, Economic, and Historical Contexts706Women in the Middle: Caretaking Issues in Therapy87Part 2Therapy Issues7Mental Health and Older Women1078Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Psychosocial Themes in the Eriksonian Alliance1259Feminist Psychotherapy with Older African American Women14410Older Lesbians' Concerns and Psychotherapy: Beyond a Footnote to the Footnote16111Strategies for Working with Women with Dementia17512Working with Women with Severe Communication Disorders: Three Cases195Part 3End-of-Life Issues13Dying and Death: Decisions at the End of Life22114An Existential Approach: End-of-Life Issues for Women239Author Index251Subject Index259
\ Feminist psychotherapists Trotman and Brody, along with other contributors, examine a range of variety of gender issues affecting aging women and address how they can be dealt with at a therapeutic level. Arguing that the culture's views of older women, aspects of aging, caregiving, elders' relationships with family, and health and sexuality concerns are all based on social constructs, they view pain as often being evidence of resistance to forms of oppression in a male-dominated culture. Hence, feminist psychotherapy should aim for the personal empowerment, dignity, self-fulfillment, and equality of older women. An effort is made to incorporate cross-cultural perspectives into the material. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
