Meaning-Centered Counseling and Therapy: An Integrative and Comprehensive Approach to Motivational Counseling and Addiction Treatment

Handbook of Motivational Counseling: Goal-Based Approaches to Assessment and Intervention with Addiction and Other Problems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 461-487

  Wong, Paul T P ^a  

^a Adler Graduate Professional School   (Canada)

Author keywords

Double vision strategy two pronged strategy, problems underlying big picture issues; Dual System Model, D SM a road map of pathways to surviving and flourishing; MCCT, a two pronged approach resolving psychological problems, a creating positive future; MCCT, form of evidence based positive psychotherapy what makes life worth living in the midst of suffering; MCCT, offering a hopeful perspective of humanity and therapy; MCCT, rooted in logotherapy personal meaning, its central construct; Meaning management theory (MMT) based on centrality of meaning in human adaptation; Meaning centered counseling and therapy (MCCT) integrative approach to addiction treatment; Motivational counseling and problem of addiction; Power of action real change, when one takes the first concrete step in a new direction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886114802     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470979952.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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