Clarissa P. Green has spent her life exploring and teaching how family relationships are changed by aging, illness and death. In her decades-long career as a therapist, Green has helped families reconfigure their relationships and conceptions of self in the face of trauma and aging.<\/p>\n
An Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Green\u2019s Continuing Studies Programs \u201cThe Widowed Journey\u201d and \u201cThe Mid-Life Daughters\u2019 Workshop\u201d ran successfully for more than a decade. Green\u00a0was a\u00a0founder of Teaching and Academic Growth (now the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre), and she has received numerous teaching awards including the Killam Teaching Prize from UBC and the prestigious 3M National Teaching Award.<\/p>\n
Green\u2019s belief that personal experience is necessary for learning and growth developed naturally alongside a lifelong passion for storytelling. Green completed the Simon Fraser University Writer\u2019s Studio program in 2007, and her\u00a0short fiction piece The Coin\u00a0won first prize at the Vancouver International Writer\u2019s Festival in 2009. Green\u2019s numerous works\u00a0have been published in anthologies, Geist magazine, and The Fieldstone Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Grownupedness is a personal memoir, rich with the insight of Clarissa P. Green\u2019s decades-long career as a university professor and family therapist working with aging parents and their mid-life children. In finding that the search for authenticity and the desire to appear and act \u201cgrown up\u201d was shared among those families that she counselled, Clarissa brings to life her stories, insights and personal family experiences\u2014making her deep understanding of aging and family life available to all families or individuals struggling with age and family relationships. Using her own similar family struggles and sharing the deeply personal process of her family\u2019s history and future interlocking through time, Clarissa explores when and how \u201cgrownupedness\u201d emerges and evolves, what threatens or cobbles it, and what it looks and sounds like in action over time.<\/p>\n
Paperback:
\nISBN: 9781989467244 (paperback).\u00a0Price: $19.95 CDN, $17.95 USD
\nSize: 5.5 x 8.5 inches
\nPages: 196<\/p>\n
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