Counseling Older Persons: An Annotated Bibliography - Hardcover

by Jane Myers (Author), Valerie L. Schweibert (Author)

Experts have made a state-of-the-art survey of sources that are important in counseling older persons, an increasingly important segment of the nation's population. The population over age 65 in the United States is 12.4% and soon will be 21.8%. This annotated compilation of 481 books, journal articles, dissertations, and documents is organized into nine topical chapters and various subsections dealing with the normative experiences of aging, persons with impairments, needs and services, special situations, counseling and counselors, ethics, practica and internships, and pharmacology. Author and subject indexes make the guide easy for academic and professional use in the fields of gerontology, psychology, and adult education.

Author Biography

VALERIE L. SCHWIEBERT, Assistant Professor and Gerontology Faculty Associate in the Department of Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education at Northern Illinois University, is also a nationally certified gerontological and rehabilitation counselor. She is president of the Illinois Association for Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development and has contributed to a number of professional journals.

JANE E. MYERS, Professor of Counseling Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is certified nationally as a gerontological, clinical, and rehabilitation counselor and has received three national awards for her research in gerontology./e Among her numerous publications in the field is a three volume guide, Counseling Older Persons (1981).