International Handbook of Adult Development and Wisdom

This handbook brings together researchers from across the globe to examine the theory and research about wisdom, especially as it relates to current ideas about adult development. Each chapter reviews both what has been accomplished in recent years and puts forward several perspectives, new and old, about the definition of wisdom, how it is understood across cultures, and how it can be integrated into the broader field of adult development.

Judith Stevens-Long is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Fielding Graduate University, where she served as Associate Dean for Curriculum Development from 2001 to 2008. She is also Emerita of California State University, where she focused on adult development. Her research publications range from works on child development to work on death and dying, and include Adult Life and Living Well, Dying Well, the latter coauthored with Dohrea Bardell. She works with Hospice of Santa Barbara as a death educator and patient service volunteer and heads the Santa Barbara chapter of Love on a Leash, a therapy dog organization.

Eeva K. Kallio is Associate Adjunct Professor at the University of Jyväskylä and the University of Tampere in Finland. Her research focuses on the development of wisdom and adult development from psychological and philosophical perspectives. She leads the psychological research group in the Research Council of Finland's "Wisdom in practice" project (2022-2026) at the at the University of Jyväskylä's Finnish Institute for Educational Research, is Honorary President of the European Society for Research in Adult Development (ESRAD), and has edited several books on adult developmental psychology. She is a taiji/qigong enthusiast and is interested in why philosophical-existential questions are always worth pondering.