Current Issue: Volume 24, Issue 1 (2025) Spring 2025

Meeting the Moment: Counseling Adults in a Changing World

As we continue navigating a rapidly changing world, one constant remains: the importance of supporting human development and well-being across the lifespan. This Spring volume of Adultspan Journal offers a compelling collection of articles that speak to that very mission, from the early years of adulthood through late life, and across diverse cultural and spiritual experiences.

Our contributors explore both timeless and timely topics, offering fresh perspectives and practical tools for counselors and counselor educators alike. In this issue, you'll find a new tool designed to measure joy of life in older adulthood, an important reminder that aging is not simply about decline, but about vitality, meaning, and connection. You'll also encounter strategies for integrating aging-related content into counselor education, a critical step in ensuring that future counselors are well-prepared to support the needs of an aging population.

Turning toward younger adults, one article offers a thoughtful exploration of how to counsel clients around spirituality, a domain often under-addressed in our field but central to many clients' identities and healing processes. Finally, we feature a powerful contribution on weathering Black racial trauma across the lifespan, with an emphasis on the compounded impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This piece challenges us to consider the weight of historical and systemic harm and the role of counselors in fostering resilience and justice-oriented care.

Together, these articles remind us that adult development is never one-size-fits-all. Whether you're working with college students or retirees, engaging spirituality or racial trauma, this issue offers insights that are both grounded in research and deeply human.

I invite you to read this volume not just as a collection of articles, but as a call to more fully honor the diverse, complex lives of the adults we serve.

Warmly,
Kaprea F. Johnson, PhD
Editor, Adultspan Journal