remained between age and willingness to see a mental health professional and to seek any formal treatment and counseling. The associations between age and willingness to see any professional or a medical professional were nonsignificant. Individuals with higher education were more likely to be willing to see a mental health professional. In multivariate analyses, distress did not predict willingness across any of the professionals or modalities, even for any formal treatment, for which it was related in a bivariate relationship.
DISCUSSION
The current study extends previous findings on minority elders’ preferences for mental health services by including a wide range of professionals and treatment modalities. A number of participants reported discussing distress with a professional in the past year (33%), and 16% had received either prescription medications or counseling. Differences by racial groups for service