Meaning in Life

Clara E. Hill, PhD, earned her doctorate at Southern Illinois University in 974. She started her career in 974 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 7: 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 22 journal articles, more than 75 book chapters, and 4 books (including Helping Skills [2 4]  Dream Work in Therapy [2 4] and Consensual Qualitative Research [2 2]).

amp quot 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. amp quot -Doody amp rsquo 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) Eminently readable, wonderfully personal, expertly researched, and consistently fascinating. Hill applies her considerable scholarly abilities to a profound and yet relatively unexplored therapeutic issue. The book that has emerged - on meaning in life - is something that all clinicians, in both their professional and personal lives, will appreciate greatly.- Barry A. Farber, PhD, Program in Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY Existential anxiety is an inevitable aspect of the human experience because of the brevity and fragility of life it is only natural that we wrestle with such questions as how to make the best use of our time on earth. It takes someone with Hill's extensive experience in counseling psychology to write an authoritative guide useful for existential competency training for all psychotherapists and psychologists.- Paul T. P. Wong, PhD, CPsych, President, International Network on Personal Meaning

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionProloguePart I. Overview of Meaning in LifeChapter . Definition of Meaning in LifeChapter 2. Development and Nature of Meaning in LifeChapter 3. Sources of MeaningPart II. Therapeutic Applications for Working With Meaning in LifeChapter 4. Existing Psychotherapy Theories About Meaning in LifeChapter 5. A Model for Working With Meaning in LifeChapter . Meaning-in-Life Work With Specific Client ProblemsChapter 7. Case Examples of Clients With Meaning-in-Life ConcernsChapter 8. Multicultural and Ethical Considerations in Working With Meaning in Life in PsychotherapyChapter 9. Finding Meaning in Life: A Self-Help GuidePart III. Research on Meaning in LifeChapter . Our Research at the University of Maryland on Meaning in LifeChapter . Measurement of Meaning in LifePart IV. ConclusionChapter 2. Future DirectionsReferencesIndexAbout the Author