Counseling Persons with Parkinson's Disease is a book that is a necessary addition to one's professional library. It is also a volume that patients can read, reflect upon, underline, and go back to when they feel a bit disoriented by what they are going through. As I relaxed with, and reflected upon, its content and spirit I thought to myself: This is what sound psychosocial information should be all about—simple, heart-felt, informative, and prepared
in order to make life better for those in pain.
Allan Hugh Cole Jr. is Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Steve Hicks School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also, by courtesy, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Dell Medical School at UT. Cole serves on the Board of Directors at Power for Parkinson's, moderates PD Wise, serves as a community advocate for ParkinsonsDisease.net, and is a guest contributor for the Michael J.
Fox Foundation's Team Fox Blog. He is the author or editor of ten books, and he has written and published many chapters, articles, and reviews in volumes and journals related to social work, counseling, spirituality, and the psychology of religion. He serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Spirituality and
Religion in Social Work: Social Thought.