Full Description
This inspiring, insightful new text provides a practical guide to helping clients live a meaningful and satisfying life despite the challenges they may be facing.
Divided into three parts, it starts by drawing on empirical research to demonstrate the effectiveness of meaning-oriented practice and reviews a large body of literature on meaning in a wide-range of psychological and philosophical approaches, translating this into specific recommendations for practitioners. It continues by exploring the basic skill set required for working effectively in this area - from how to assess clients' needs and address issues of meaning, to specific existential, phenomenological and mindfulness skills. Finally, it provides a step guide to applying the skills to clinical practice with the support of examples and case studies from a range of professions.
In what is still an emerging area of practice, this text stands alone as a comprehensive source of reference for both students and practitioners across the full range of people professions.
Contents
Introduction
Part I:Scientific foundations: meaning in life for sceptics
1. Traditional Approaches to Meaning
2. A pragmatic-phenomenological approach to meaning
3. Research on the meaning of meaning
4. Research on meaning-centered practices
Part II: Practical foundations: practitioner skills
5. Pluralistic Framework
6. Meaning-Centered Assessment Skills
7. Meaning-Specific Skills
8. Relational Skills
9. Phenomenological, experiential and mindfulness skills
10. Existential skills
Part III: A ten-session treatment manual: Meaning-Centered Groups for Physically Ill Individuals
11. Overview of treatment
12. Individual assessment session
13. Session 1: introduction to meaning in life
14. Session 2: Changes in meaning in life
15. Session 3: Resilience as source of meaning
16. Session 4: material-hedonic sources of meaning
17. Session 5: self-oriented sources of meaning
18. Session 6: Social sources of meaning
19. Session 7: Higher sources of meaning
20. Session 8: Being-here as source of meaning
21. Session 9: Experiencing meaning in daily life and how to do it
22. Session 10: Ending and a new beginning
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