DR. ANN KAISER STEARNS  - A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

       Dr. Ann Kaiser Stearns is the best-selling author of Living Through
Personal Crisis (published in seven languages) and Coming Back - Rebuilding
Lives After Crisis and published in seven languages) and Coming Back - Rebuilding
Lives After Crisis and Loss (Random House).  She has also written  “Counseling
the Grieving Person,” in the textbook Pastoral Counseling (Prentice Hall),
and Living Through Job Loss (Simon and Schuster).

       In more than 200 radio and television interviews as well as several
hundred keynote presentations and workshops in Maryland and nationwide, Dr.
Stearns has used her expertise to provide compassionate support and guidance for
anyone dealing with the impact of life transitions or personal loss on all
aspects of life.  She has studied resilience in people who have suffered the loss
of a loved one through death, estrangement or divorce as well as people coping
with illness, disability, job loss and a wide variety of other traumatic or
stressful events.  Coining the term “Triumphant Survivor” to describe those
able successfully to rebuild their lives after crisis or loss, Dr. Stearns
shares insight and inspiration gained from her research and from scores of
interviews with people who have grown stronger through adversity.

     A graduate of Oklahoma City University (B.A.), Duke University (M.Div.),
and the Union Institute (Ph.D.), Dr. Stearns did internships at the
Washington Pastoral Counseling Service in Washington, D.C., and the East Point Medical
Center and Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.  She also studied at the
University of Edinburgh, Scotland; the American School of Oriental Research in
Jerusalem; the University of San Diego, California, and the George Washington
University in Washington, D.C.

       Dr. Stearns is a longtime Professor of Psychology at the Community
College of Baltimore County (CCBC - Essex Campus) and is an Adjunct Professor in
the Police Executive Leadership Program at the Johns Hopkins University. 
Previously she was an Associate Chaplain at Michigan State University; on the
faculty of the Family Practice Residency Program at Franklin Square Hospital; and
a Visiting Professor of Psychology in the Graduate School of Pastoral
Counseling at Loyola College in Baltimore. The mother of two daughters, Dr. Stearns
lives with her family in Maryland where a major focus of her present work is
designing and teaching innovative psychology courses for nursing students,
psychology majors and veteran police officers.