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Spiritual Resiliency and Aging: Hope, Relationality, and the Creative Self (Society and Aging) - Softcover

Ramsey, Janet L.; Blieszner, Rosemary

 
9780895034113: Spiritual Resiliency and Aging: Hope, Relationality, and the Creative Self (Society and Aging)

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First Published in 2017. In this new book, Ramsey and Blieszner invite readers to renew their acquaintance with the eight women of the previous book and to meet eight men who, like the women, were nominated by their pastors as being people the pastors would want to speak with in times of spiritual crisis.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Janet L. Ramsey Pastor George Weinman Chair of Pastoral Theology and Ministry Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota. Rosemary Blieszner Alumni Distinguished Professor of Human Development Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia.

About the Authors The Rev. Dr. Janet L. Ramsey is the Pastor George Weinman Chair of Pastoral Theology and Ministry at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has an M.A. from Yale Divinity, M.Div. from Lutheran Theological School at Philadelphia, and Ph.D. in Adult Development and Aging from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where she also received a certificate in gerontology. Her past vocational experiences have included parish ministry, nursing home chaplaincy and administration, and full-time pastoral counseling and supervision. She currently teaches courses in aging, forgiveness and healing, and pastoral care at Luther Seminary, and continues a small clinical practice as a marriage and family therapist. A well-known speaker on religion and aging as well as on forgiveness and healing, Ramsey has written numerous book chapters and articles and is lead author of Spiritual Resiliency in Older Women: Models of Strength for Challenges through the Life Span (Sage, 1999). She is currently writing a book with theologian and colleague Lois Malcolm, Discerning Forgiveness. Ramsey is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and a diplomate in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. Rosemary Blieszner, Alumni Distinguished Professor, is professor of gerontology and family studies in the Department of Human Development, Associate Director of the Center for Gerontology, and Associate Dean of the Graduate School at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg. She received a Ph.D. in Human Development-Family Studies from The Pennsylvania State University, with a major concentration in adult development and aging and a minor in sociology/social psychology. Her research focuses on family and friend relationships, life events, and psychological well-being in adulthood and old age. She is coauthor of Adult Friendship (Sage, 1992) and Spiritual Resiliency in Older Women: Models of Strength for Challenges through the Life Span (Sage, 1999); coeditor of Older Adult Friendship: Structure and Process (Sage, 1989), Handbook of Aging and the Family (Greenwood Press, 1995), and Handbook of Families and Aging, 2nd ed. (Praeger, 2011); and author of numerous articles published in gerontology, family studies, psychology, sociology, and personal relationships journals. Blieszner is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 20), Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, Gerontological Society of America, and National Council on Family Relations. In 1997-98 she received the university's Alumni Award for Teaching Excellence, in 2000 she received the Alumni Recognition Award from the College of Health and Human Development at The Pennsylvania State University, and in 2002 she was named Alumni Distinguished Professor, a position held by ten faculty members at the university.

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Intended Audience: Instructors and students in gerontology/aging studies, religious studies, pastoral counseling, congregational leadership, psychology of aging, family studies, lifespan human development, marriage and family therapy, social work, health promotion, geriatric medicine and nursing, long-term care and community-based care, recreation therapy/activities, and intergenerational programming. Clinicians/professionals including pastoral counselors, family therapists, clinical psychologists and geropsychologists, licensed professional counselors, social workers, gerontology practitioners, clergy and older adult program ministers, hospice workers, activities directors, long-term care administrators, and health care providers.

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Intended Audience: Instructors and students in gerontology/aging studies, religious studies, pastoral counseling, congregational leadership, psychology of aging, family studies, lifespan human development, marriage and family therapy, social work, health promotion, geriatric medicine and nursing, long-term care and community-based care, recreation therapy/activities, and intergenerational programming. Clinicians/professionals including pastoral counselors, family therapists, clinical psychologists and geropsychologists, licensed professional counselors, social workers, gerontology practitioners, clergy and older adult program ministers, hospice workers, activities directors, long-term care administrators, and health care providers.

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