Clinical Perspectives on Meaning: Positive and Existential Psychotherapy

Clinical Perspectives on Meaning: Positive and Existential Psychotherapy.- Part I: Understanding: Contexts, objectives and considerations.- The Proper Aim of Therapy: Subjective Well-being, Objective Goodness, or a Meaningful Life?.- Seeing Life through a Sacred Lens: The Spiritual Dimension of Meaning.- Working with Meaning in Life in Mental Health Care: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analyses of the Practices and Effectiveness of Meaning-Centered Therapies.- Making Meaning in the Context of Ethnopolitical Warfare: Secondary Control as a Resource.- Multiculturalism and Meaning in Existential and Positive Psychology.- Practices of Meaning-Changing Interventions: A Comprehensive Matrix.- Part II: coping: Integrative meaning-oriented perspectives and interventions for human coping.- The Significance of Meaning to Conceptualizations of Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth: Strengthening the Foundation for Research and Practice.- Working with Meaning in Life in Chronic or Life-Threatening Disease: A Review of its Relevance and the Effectiveness of Meaning-Centered Therapies.- Meaning in Life in the Prevention and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders.- Reason, Meaning and Resilience in the Treatment of Depression: Logotherapy as a Bridge Between Cognitive-Behavior Therapy and Positive Psychology.- Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy in the Oncology and Palliative Care Settings.- Meaning-Making in the Aftermath of a Spinal Cord Injury.- Out, Out Brief Candle? The Meaning of Meaninglessness.- Part III: Thriving: Integrative meaning-oriented perspectives and interventions for human thriving.- Meaning, Medicine and Healing.- Integrative Meaning Therapy: From Logotherapy to Existential Positive Interventions.- Nostalgia as an Existential Intervention: Using the Past to Secure Meaning in the Present and the Future.- Caring and Meaning in Psychotherapy.- Character Strengths and Mindfulness as Core Pathways to Meaning in Life.- Strategies for Cultivating Purpose Among Adolescents in Clinical Settings.- Meaning-Centered Positive Group Intervention.