Description
We all struggle to process our experiences, achievements, and failures within the context of a meaningful life. Knowing how to discuss meaning, and how to help patients find it, is a vital tool for all mental health practitioners. The concept of meaning-in-life (MIL) can help clients come to understand their lives as filled with significance and purpose. Hill weighs decades of research on MIL against her own recent work at the University of Maryland, distinguishing MIL research from other similar constructs and discussing the various sources of meaning that we all can find and apply in our daily lives.
With strong case examples and hands-on reflection activities, Hill shows how therapists of all orientations can apply MIL in their practice.
About the Author
Clara E. Hill, PhD, earned her doctorate at Southern Illinois University in 1974. She started her career in 1974 as an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, and is currently still there as a professor. She has been president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, editor of the Journal of Counseling Psychology, and coeditor of Psychotherapy Research. Her awards include the Leona Tyler Award (APA Division 17: Society of Counseling Psychology), the Distinguished Psychologist Award (APA Division 29: Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy), the Distinguished Research Career Award (Society for Psychotherapy Research), and the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award (Section on Counseling and Psychotherapy Process and Outcome Research, Society for Counseling Psychology). Her major research interests are helping skills, psychotherapy process and outcome, training and supervising therapists, dreamwork, meaning in life, and qualitative research. Dr. Hill has published more than 220 journal articles, more than 75 book chapters, and 14 books (including Helping Skills [2014]; Dream Work in Therapy [2004]; and Consensual Qualitative Research [2012]).
Reviews
"Renowned expert Clara E. Hill, has set the bar quite high with her forward-thinking and timely new book. No other book on the subject is as up-to-date and comprehensive... surpasses all expectations and delivers an outstanding body of work based on the author's expert theoretical, clinical, and research work conducted over several decades in practice and academic settings...Recommend this groundbreaking book as the go-to resource for therapists interested in better understanding how to approach the topic of meaning in life with their clients." -Doody's Review Service
Renowned expert Clara E. Hill has set the bar quite high with her forward-thinking and timely new book. No other book on the subject is as up-to-date and comprehensive...surpasses all expectations and delivers an outstanding body of work based on the author's expert theoretical, clinical, and research work conducted over several decades in practice and academic settings...Recommend this groundbreaking book as the go-to resource for therapists interested in better understanding how to approach the topic of meaning in life with their clients.
* Doody's Review Service *Book Information
ISBN 9781433828874
Author Clara E. Hill
Format Paperback
Page Count 231
Imprint American Psychological Association
Publisher American Psychological Association
