Debra A. Harley, Ph.D., CRC, LPC, is a professor in the Department of Early Childhood, Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling at the University of Kentucky (UK) and holds the distinction of Provost’s Distinguished Service Professor. She is past editor of the Journal of Rehabilitation Counseling and the Journal of Rehabilitation Administration (JRA) and is guest editor of numerous special issues of rehabilitation journals and a member of the editorial board of JRA and a reviewer for the Journal of AIDS and HIV Research and WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation. She is co-editor of a book, Contemporary Mental Health Issues Among African Americans. Professor Harley has published over 80 refereed articles and 26 book chapters in the areas of cultural diversity, gender issues, LGBT populations, substance abuse and ethics. Professor Harley has served on the certification and the accreditation boards for rehabilitation counselors and rehabilitation counselor education programs and is affiliate faculty with the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, the Center Research on Research on Violence Against Women and the Human Development Institute at UK. Pamela B. Teaster, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Health Behavior in the College of Public Health at the University of Kentucky. Professor Teaster is Director of the Ohio Valley Appalachia Regional Geriatric Education Center and Director of Doctoral Studies for the College of Public Health. She directs the Kentucky Justice Center for Elders and Vulnerable Adults and serves on the editorial boards of the journal of Applied Gerontology and the Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect. Professor Teaster is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and the Association for gerontology in Higher Education. She has published over 100 refereed articles and reports on aging and mistreatment, intimate partner violence of aging women and sexual abuse of older women.Professor Teaster is an affiliate faculty of the Program for Bioethics and the Center Research on Research on Violence Against Women.
