In later years, he was a guest instructor at the Lifetime Learning Institute of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Stern served as Editor of the Journal of Pastoral Counseling (published by Iona College), Voices: the Journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapists and was founding Editor of the Psychotherapy Patient published by the Haworth Press.
He was also coauthor (with Bert Marino, Ph.D.) of Psychotheology, published by the Paulist Press; editor of The Other Side of the Couch" What Therapist Believe, published by Pilgrim Press and other books and articles in psychology and psychoanalytic periodicals as well as chapters in anthologies.
In his semi-retirement Stern was a legislative appointee to the Dutchess County Mental Health Commission while continuing a limited practice in humanistic and existential psychotherapy.
Stern died on March 11, 2014, in Clinton Corners, Dutchess County, New York.