Group psychotherapy with the elderly.
1. Group psychotherapy is an important and valid treatment modality for the psychiatrically impaired elderly. 2. The group format offers a normalizing, reality-based, and social context in which the patients may explore their concerns. 3. The therapist must be sensitive to issues such as sensory loss, debilitating illnesses, and death when leading geriatric psychotherapy groups.
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Division of Psychiatry, Coney Island Hospital, Brooklyn, New York 11235.
D000368:Aged; D003631:Day Care, Medical; D003704:Dementia / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*