Exploring existential meaning optimizing human development across the life span
With this work, the editors present a forum for an array of international viewpoints and recent research that address the notion of optimal human growth.
| Otros Autores: | , |
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks, CA :
Sage Publications
c2000.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798423006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; Part I - Theoretical and Conceptual Issues; Chapter 1 - Philosophical Foundations of Existential Meaning; Chapter 2 - Meaning as Movement: The Relativity of the Mind; Chapter 3 - Theoretical Perspective, Dimensions, and Measurement of Existential Meaning; Part II - Research on Existential Meaning; Chapter 4 - Structural Components of Personal Meaning in Life and Their Relationship with Death Attitudes and Coping Mechanisms in Late Adulthood
- Chapter 5 - Dimensions and Discourses of Meaning in Life: Approaching Meaning from Qualitative PerspectivesChapter 6 - An Inquiry Into Existential Meaning: Theoretical, Clinical, and Phenomenal Perspectives; Chapter 7 - The Personal Meaning System in a Life-Span Perspective; Chapter 8 - The Development of a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Sources of Life Meaning; Part III - Applications and Interventions; Chapter 9 - Finding Meaning in Caregivers of Persons with Alzheimer's Disease: African American and White Caregivers' Perspectives
- Chapter 10 - Making Meaning within the Experience of Life- Threatening IllnessChapter 11 - Religion and Meaning in Late Life; Chapter 12 - Logotherapeutic and ""Depth Psychology"" Approaches to Meaning and Psychotherapy; Part IV - Overview and New Directions; Chapter 13 - Existential Meaning: Reflections and Directions; Author Index; Subject Index
