Books by Carolyn Ambler Walter

Carolyn Ambler Walter, PhD, LCSW, is a Professor Emerita at the Center for Social Work Education at Widener University, Chester, PA. In addition to teaching part time at Widener, she has served as a mentor and instructor in the DSW program at University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy and Practice and maintains a private clinical social work practice. Dr. Walter is the coauthor of Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan: A Biopsychosocial Perspective (2009) and the author of The Loss of a Life Partner: Narratives of the Bereaved (2003). She is the coauthor of Breast Cancer in the Life Course: Women's Experiences and the author of The Timing of Motherhood. Dr. Walter has published many articles in professional journals on such topics as women's issues, grief, and social work education. Dr. Walter has also given professional presentations at state and regional hospice conferences throughout the United States, at Association for Death Education and Counseling, National Association of Social Workers, and Council on Social Work Education national conferences. Judith L. M. McCoyd, PhD, LCSW, QCSW, is an Associate Professor at Rutgers University--School of Social Work, teaching in the Advanced Clinical curriculum and working with both the PhD in Social Work and DSW doctoral programs. She worked in perinatal, emergency room, and oncology settings during her active practice life before academia and continues to maintain a small private practice with perinatal and end-of-life care as specialties. She is coauthor of Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan: A Biopsychosocial Perspective (2009) and coeditor (with Toba S. Kerson) of Social Work in Health Settings: Practice in Context (3rd ed.--2010). She presents at national and international conferences such as Council on Social Work Education, National Association of Perinatal Social Work, and the Interdisciplinary Conference of Social Sciences, and publishes in journals about perinatal decision making, technology and health care, societal aspects of bereavement, and social work education. Her research agenda involves exploration of the ways perinatal technologies impact the experience of child-bearing and bereavement when perinatal loss occurs.