Counseling Older Persons: An Annotated Bibliography

by Jane Myers, Valerie L. Schweibert

Overview

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, jourbanal 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313292774
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/22/1995
Series:	Bibliographies and Indexes in Gerontology , #26
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

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 jourbanals.

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).

Table of Contents

Series Foreword by Erdman B. Palmore
Preface
Acknowledgments
Normative Experience of Aging
Older Persons with Impairments
Needs and Services for Older Persons
The Population and Special Situations
Theories and Technologies for Counseling Older Persons
Ethics in Gerontological Counseling
Practica and Internships
The Professional Gerontological Counselor
Pharmacology and Aging
Author Index
Subject Index

Editorial Reviews

A survey of some 480 print sources on issues related to counseling older persons, divided into nine sections on the normative experience of aging, persons with impairments, needs and services, special situations, counseling and counselors, ethics, internships, and pharmacology. Useful for professionals in gerontology, psychology, and adult education. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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