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Courses

PC2525	Foundations of Pastoral Care	Fall 2009
PC3520-50	Grief Ministry	Fall 2009
PC8530	The Turn to Relationality & Theological Anthropology	Spring 2009
IC2640	Forgiveness and Healing with Lois Malcolm	Spring 2009
PC8560	Pastoral Counseling: Theory & Practice	Fall 2008
AG4515	Emotional Wellness and Aging	Spring 2008
AG4520	Cross-Cultural Gerontology: Aging Around the World	Spring 2008
AG4540	Aging and the Humanities	Spring 2007
AG4525	Spiritual Resiliency in Later Years Resiliency Powerpoint	Spring 2007
PC8510	Personality Theories & Theological Anthropology Emerging Theories	Spring 2007
LD8920	Introduction to Quantitative & Qualitative Research Methods with Alvin Luedke The Qualitative Interview	Spring 2007
PC4510	Forgiveness and Healing with Lois Malcolm Object Relations (ppt) (776 kb) Narrative & Forgiveness (ppt) (262 kb)	Spring 2007
PC3522	Pastoral Care with the Aging	Fall 2005
PC6530 01	Human Sexuality & Christian Faith with Roland Martinson	Fall 2005
PC3519	Ministry to the Mentally Ill and Their Families	Fall 2004
PT6515	Human Sexuality and the Christian Faith with Professor Martinson	Spring 2004

Speaking & Travel

Janet Ramsey is available to speak at your congregation's event or adult forum on the following topics:

Spiritual resiliency and aging

Forgiveness and Healing

Stepfamilies and/or remarriage

The neglected resource: spiritual resiliency in caregiving

Creating caring congregations

Publications (see full listing in CV)

Books

Spiritual resiliency and aging:
Hope, relationality and the creative self
(with Rosemary Blieszner)

Amityvill, NY: Baywood Press, forthcoming

Spiritual resiliency in older women: Models of strength for challenges through the life span
(with Rosemary Blieszner)

Spiritual Resiliency In Older Women records the narratives of spiritually resilient older German and American women. The authors suggest how persons of all ages can gain maturity and spiritual coping by participating in communities based on faith, which acknowledge the emotion of spiritual experiences and integrate faith and close human relationships.

Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1999.
ISBN-10: 0761912770

Chapters in Books

(with S.H. McFadden) (In press). Encountering the numinous: Relationality, the arts, and religion in later life. In T. Cole, R. Ray, & R. Kastenbaum, (Eds.), Guide to humanistic studies in aging. Baltimore: John Hopkins Press.

(with S.H. McFadden). Problems or Partners? Senior Adults and a New Story for Pastoral Care. In, S. Kujawa-Holbrook & K. Montagno, (Eds.), Injustice and the care of souls: Taking oppression seriously in pastoral care. Minneapolis: Fortress Press. (2009).

(with S.McFadden) “Psychology, Religion, and Aging: An Applied Perspective.” D.Wulff, ed. Psychology of Religion Handbook, 2nd Ed. New York: Oxford Press.

How does team teaching model trust in and beyond the classroom? Teaching to create the conditions for transformation. In M.E. Hess & S. D Brookfield, (Eds.), Teaching reflectively in theological contexts: Promises and contradictions. Melbourne, FL: Krieger Publishing. (2008)

(with R.Blieszner) "Uncovering spiritual resiliency through feminist qualitative methods," in S.H. McFadden, M Brennan , J.H.Patrick (Eds.), New directions in the study of late life religiousness and spirituality. New York: Hawthorne Pastoral Press. (2003)

(with R.Blieszner) "Transcending a lifetime of losses: The importance of spirituality in old age," in J. Harvey & E. D. Miller (Eds.), Loss and Trauma: General and close relationship perspectives (pp. 225-236). New York: Brunner Routledge. (2000)

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Last updated: May 9, 2005.