Counseling Older Persons - (Bibliographies and Indexes in Gerontology) Annotated by Valerie L Schweibert (Hardcover)

About the Book

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.

Book Synopsis

State-of-the-art survey of sources to counsel an increasingly large segment of the population.

Review Quotes

?Like other disciplines, the relatively new field of gerontology is experiencing an information explosion...An alternative to increasingly inadequate card catalogs and indexes, this annotated bibliography also organizes works more logically than a computerized bibliography can.?-Abstracts in Social Gerontology

?The annotations are well written, logically presented, and well organized. For graduate students, faculty, and professional counselors.?-Choice

?This book is more specialized and would appeal to those who want to specialize in gerontological counseling or research. This would be a nice addition for the larger academic and public libraries that have gerontological programs and collections.?-BABRA

"The annotations are well written, logically presented, and well organized. For graduate students, faculty, and professional counselors."-Choice

"This book is more specialized and would appeal to those who want to specialize in gerontological counseling or research. This would be a nice addition for the larger academic and public libraries that have gerontological programs and collections."-BABRA

"Like other disciplines, the relatively new field of gerontology is experiencing an information explosion...An alternative to increasingly inadequate card catalogs and indexes, this annotated bibliography also organizes works more logically than a computerized bibliography can."-Abstracts in Social Gerontology

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 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).