Title: Exploring Existential Meaning: Optimizing Human Development Across the Life Span
Abstract:Foreword - James E Birren Introduction - Gary T Reker and Kerry Chamberlain PART ONE: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES Philosophical Foundations of Existential Meaning - Gary M Kenyon Meaning as Move...Foreword - James E Birren Introduction - Gary T Reker and Kerry Chamberlain PART ONE: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES Philosophical Foundations of Existential Meaning - Gary M Kenyon Meaning as Movement - Hubert J M Hermans The Relativity of the Mind Theoretical Perspective, Dimensions, and Measurement of Existential Meaning - Gary T Reker PART TWO: RESEARCH ON EXISTENTIAL MEANING Structural Components of Personal Meaning in Life and their Relationship with Death Attitudes and Coping Mechanisms in Late Adulthood - Nancy Van Ranst and Alfons Marcoen Dimensions and Discourses of Meaning in Life - Kay O'Connor and Kerry Chamberlain Approaching Meaning from Qualitiative Perspectives An Inquiry into Existential Meaning - Dominique L Debats Theoretical, Clinincal and Phenomenal Perspectives The Personal Meaning System in a Life-Span Perspective - Freya Dittman-Kohli and Gerben J Westerhof The Development of a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Sources of Life Meaning - Edward Prager, Rivka Savaya and Leora Bar-Tur PART THREE: APPLICATIONS AND INTERVENTIONS Finding Meaning in Caregivers of Persons with Alzheimer's Disease - Carol J Farran, Karen Lowe Graham and Dimitra Loukissa African American and White Caregivers' Perspectives Making Meaning within the Experience of Life-Threatening Illness - Doris D Coward Religion and Meaning in Late Life - Susan H McFadden Logotherapeutic and 'Depth Psychology' Approaches to Meaning and Psychotherapy - David Guttmann PART FOUR: OVERVIEW AND NEW DIRECTIONS Existential Meaning - Gary T Reker and Kerry Chamberlain Reflections and DirectionsRead More
Publication Year: 1999
Publication Date: 1999-09-03
Language: en
Type: book
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