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.
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.- 6. Meaning-Specific Skills.- 7. Relational Skills.- 8. Phenomenological, experiential and mindfulness skills.- 9. Existential skills.- Part III:: A ten-session treatment manual:: Meaning-Centered Groups for Physically Ill Individuals.- 10. Overview of treatment .- 11. Individual assessment session .- 12. Session 1:: introduction to meaning in life .- 13. Session 2:: Changes in meaning in life .- 14. Session 3:: Resilience as source of meaning .- 15. Session 4:: material-hedonic sources of meaning.- 16. Session 5:: self-o riented sources of meaning.- 17. Session 6:: Social sources of meaning.- 18. Session 7:: Higher sources of meaning.- 19. Session 8:: Being-here as source of meaning.- 20. Session 9:: Experiencing meaning in daily life and how to do it.- 21. Session 10:: Ending and a new beginning.- Questionnaires
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