{"product_id":"meaning-in-life-an-evidencebased-handbook-for-practitioners-9781137576682","title":"Meaning in Life An EvidenceBased Handbook for","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr Joel Vos\u003c\/b\u003e is psychologist and philosopher. He is Director of the online education, therapy and research platform Meaning Online. He is an internationally recognised researcher on meaning in life, and is chairman of the IMEC International Meaning Conferences. Dr Vos gives lectures, training and supervision at universities and mental health services in the United Kingdom and abroad, such as the Metanoia Institute and the New School for Psychotherapy and Counselling in London. He has worked as Deputy Director of the Centre for Research in Social and psychological Transformation at the University of Roehampton, and as researcher at Leiden University and Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit. www.joelvos.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis ground-breaking text draws together a range of historical, philosophical, and therapeutic sources to provide a uniquely detailed and comprehensive guide to meaning-centred practice. I am sure it will become the ‘go-to’ guide for counsellors, psychotherapists, and researchers in this field for many years to come. A remarkable achievement. * Mick Cooper, Author of ‘Existential Therapies’ and ‘Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy’ *\u003cbr\u003eThis handbook on Meaning in Life is unique in the crowded field of existentially oriented therapies. Dr. Vos is able to integrate traditional existential phenomenological approach with the more recent evidence-based psycho-education approach of meaning therapy. He has made an important contribution to defining existential competency as essential for practitioners. * Dr. Paul T. P. Wong, President of the International Network on Personal Meaning and originator of Meaning Therapy *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  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  Questionnaires","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019445371223,"sku":"9781137576682","price":30.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781137576682.jpg?v=1750780292","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/meaning-in-life-an-evidencebased-handbook-for-practitioners-9781137576682","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}