When Stigma is the Greatest Barrier: Strategies to Connect Older Adults to Treatment

• By: Nancy Harvey, LMSW Service Program for Older People (SPOP)
• April 18th, 2023
• culturally competent treatment, mental health stigma, older adults, Spring 2023 Issue, stigma
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When Client R, age 68, was referred to Service Program for Older People (SPOP) ten months ago she described symptoms of depression and anxiety – and she stated emphatically that therapy was for “rich white people” and not for her. She identified herself as an older Black Puerto Rican lesbian...