COE honors alumna Jane E. Myers for lifetime achievement

Jane Myers, a University of Florida counselor education alumna and widely published expert on counseling and wellness, was honored with the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award at the UF College of Education’s commencement ceremony on May 5, 2007.

Myers is known nationally as an expert on counseling and wellness issues for persons of all ages, with a special focus on older adults. In her adopted home of Greensboro, N.C., she is equally well-known as an activist and volunteer dedicated to helping older people cope with their problems. 

A former professor of the UF’s College of Education, Myers has authored more than 23 books and monographs and 130 scholarly articles on counseling. She is the co-author of two well-known wellness models that have been used in more than 35 doctoral dissertations and translated into several languages. The American Counseling Association’s Journal of Counseling and Development named Myers among its top 1 percent of contributors.

She has been named a Fellow of the American Counseling Association and the Gerontological Society of America, and is the recipient of prominent awards from these organizations as well as the National Rehabilitation Counseling Association and the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association.

Currently a professor of counselor education at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Myers is involved in aging issues in the local area, serving on the Guilford County Council on Aging, appearing on local television and radio programs to discuss aging-related issues, and volunteering as an adjunct chaplain at Moses Cone Hospital.