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Helen Black, Ph.D

Award

• Reviewer of the Year, Journal of Gerontology, 2004

Books

• Black, H.K. Soul Pain: The Meaning of Suffering in Later Life. Baywood Press, 2005.

• Black, H.K. & Rubinstein, R.L. Old Souls: Aged women, poverty and the Experience of God. NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 2000.

Book Chapters:

• Black, Helen K. Narratives of forgiveness. In W a ys of Aging, Jaber Gubrium and James Holstein (Eds.) Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 2003.

• Black, Helen K. Whom can we tell? Elders' narratives of suffering. In Aging, Spirituality and Religion, A Handbook , vol. 4. Mel Kimble & Susan McFadden (Eds.). Philadelphia, Fortress Press, 2003.

Journal Articles

• Black, H.K. “Moral Imagination in long-term care workers.” Omega: Journal of Death and Dying , in press.

• Black, H.K. & Rubinstein, R.L. “Direct care workers' responses to dying and death in the nursing home: A case study.” Journal of Gerontology , in press.

• Black, H.K. & Rubinstein, R.L. “Themes of suffering in later life.” Journal of Gerontology, January, 2004.

• Moss, M.; Moss, S.; Rubinstein, R. & Black, H. “Metaphor of family in staff discussion about dying and death.” Journal of Gerontology , September, 2003.

• Black, Helen K. “What forgiveness teaches us about research methods.” Gerontology and Geriatrics Education, 2003.

• Black, Helen K. “Different ways to hurt: An Elderly woman's narrative of suffering.” Journal of Aging and Identity , vol. 7, issue 1, pp. 3-15, March, 2002.

• Black, Helen K. “Jake's story: A middle aged, working class man's physical and spiritual journey toward death.” Qualitative Health Research , vol.11 , no. 3, pp. 293-307, May, 2001.

• Black, Helen K. "A sense of the sacred: Altering or enhancing the self-portrait in older age." Narrative Inquiry , vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 1-19, 1999.

• Black, Helen K. "Life as gift: Spiritual narratives of elderly African-American women living in poverty. Journal of Aging Studies , vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 441-455, 1999.

• Black, Helen K. "Poverty and Prayer." Review of Religious Research , vol. 40, no.4, pp. 359-374, 1999.

• Black, H.K. & Rubinstein, R.L. "Narratives of three elderly African-American women living in poverty who have lost an adult child to 'Horrendous Death.'" Omega: Journal of Death and Dying , vol. 38, no. 2, pp.143-161, 1998-99.

• Black, Helen, K. "'Keener than any two-edged sword': Three elderly African-American women living in poverty interpret the Living Word." Journal of Religious Gerontology , vol.10, no. 4, 1998.

• Goodman, M., Black, H.K. & Rubinstein, R. L. "Paternal bereavement in older men." Omega: Journal of death and dying , vol. 33, no. 4, 1996.

• Black, Helen K. "'Wasted' lives and the hero grown old: Personal perspectives of spirituality in older men." Journal of Religious Gerontology, vol. 9, no. 3, 1995.

Presentations

• Spirituality of Death in Long-Term Care: Case Studies. Poster presented at the 57 th annual meeting of The Gerontological Society of America, November 19-22, 2004, Washington, D.C.

• deMedeiros, K.; Black, H.; Cotton, S.; DeMichele, K. Narrative Positioning and Expressed Themes: An Expansion of Narrative Analysis . Poster presented at the 57 th annual meeting of The Gerontological Society of America, November 19-22, 2004, Washington, D.C.

• deMichele, K.; Black, H.; Cotton, S.; deMedeiros, K. Feminine Perspectives on Generativity in the Ninth Decade . Poster presented at the 57 th annual meeting of The Gerontological Society of America, November 19-22, 2004, Washington, D.C.

• Moral Imagination in Long-Term Care Workers . Paper presented at the 56 th annual meeting of The Gerontological Society of America, November 22-25, 2003, San Diego, CA.

• How Moral Moral Imagination becomes Compassionate Caregiving. Paper presented at the Works of Love Conference, May 28-June 4, 2003, Villanova University, Villanova, PA.

• Questions I now ask: Faith in an Assisted Living Facility . Paper presented at the 55 th annual meeting of The Gerontological Society of America, November 22-25, 2002, Boston, MA.

• The many faces of loss in elders' narratives of suffering . Invited keynote speaker at WHYY Hospice Program, April 24, 2002, Philadelphia, PA.

• She cried; he cried? The “gendered” differences in suffering. Invited speaker at the College of the Holy Cross, Februrary 11, 2002, Worcester, MA.

• Society, spirituality and suffering . Paper presented at the 54 th annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, November 15-18, 2001, Chicago, IL.

• To forgive is—amazing: Elders' narratives of forgiveness . Poster presented at the 53 rd annual meeting of The Gerontological Society of America, November 17-21, 2000, Washington, DC.

• So many ways to hurt: Elders' stories of suffering . Paper presented at the Polisher Research Institute, Philadelphia Geriatric Center, April 5, 2000.

• So many different faces: Elders' narratives of suffering . Paper presented at the American Academy of Religion regional meeting, March 23-24, 2000, Chadds Ford, PA..