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- Frankl contends that people who confront pain, guilt, despair, and death can challenge their despair thus triumph.
- Finding meaning in life is a by-product of engagenemt, which is a commitment to creating, loving, working, and building.
The Search for Authenticity
- Living authentically entails knowing and accepting his/her limits.
(e.g. struggle for identity in adolesccence, coping with possible disappointments in middle age, adjusting to children leaving home, coping with
failures in marriage and work, and dealing with increased physical limitationsas one ages)
STRENGTHS
Can be used in helping clients of all cultures because it focuses on the sober issues each of us must inevtably face: love,
anxiety, suffering, and death
Enables clients to examine the degree to which their behavior is being influenced by social and cultural conditioning
Central focus on human existence (self-consciousness, freedom)
Emphasizes on the human quality of the therapeutic relationship
Understanding freedom
Understanding anxiety
Awareness to choose
Acceptance of death (for death gives lifemeaning)
LIMITATIONS
Less systematic
Lacks precision causing confusion
Abstract concept
Excessively individualistic highly focused on the philosophical assumption of self-determination, which does not take into
account the complex factors that many people who have been oppressed must deal with
Lack of direction that clients may get from the counselor
Has limited applicability to lower functioning and non-verbal clients and to clients in extreme crisis who need direction
CRITICAL ISSUES
Lacks a systematic statement of principles and practices of psychotherapy
A counselor is challenged to provide enough concrete direction for clients without taking the responsibility away from them (the
client may discard traditional (and imposed) values without finding other, suitable ones to replace them)
Clients can experience being excited and joyful but also frigthening and, at times, depressing during the early phases of
therapy.
References:
Corey, Gerald (2005). Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychoterapy 7th Edition. USA: Thomson Learning, Inc.
Corey, Gerald (2008). Theory and Practice of Group Counseling. USA: Thomson Learning, Inc.
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