Psychotherapy
Ebrahim Ahmadi
Abstract
Man has always been searching for the meaning of life, but nowadays it has become more difficult for him to find it, so psychologists should help people in this way. Current research suggests that if people can see their lives in the form of a hero's journey story, they will find meaning in their lives ...
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Man has always been searching for the meaning of life, but nowadays it has become more difficult for him to find it, so psychologists should help people in this way. Current research suggests that if people can see their lives in the form of a hero's journey story, they will find meaning in their lives and their flourishing will increase. In order to test this hypothesis, among the 50,000 mobile phone subscribers in Tehran and Karaj, 533 people (270 men) with an average age of 42 years were conveniently sampled and in an experimental design were randomly assigned into experimental group (whose life stories were restructured in the form of a hero's journey) and control group (who only wrote their life stories). The meaning of life was measured by Crumbaugh & Maholick's test (1964), the view of life as a hero's journey story by Rogers et al.'s scale (2023), and the flourishing by Diener et al.'s test (2010). T-tests showed that looking at life in the form of a hero's journey story, the meaning of life, and flourishing is more in the experimental group than in the control group, and conditional process modeling showed that reconstructing the life story in the form of a hero's journey (independent variable), has increased the meaning of life and flourishing (dependent variables) through looking at life in the form of a hero's journey story (mediating variable). So, the story of the hero's journey is a framework that psychologists can use to guide people in
Mojtaba haghani zemydani; fatemeh zameiri; fatemeh ghasemi niaei; samaneh Khazaei; farinaz emadi
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Human life represents a lifelong endeavor to seek and construct meaning. This basic dimension of existence is present every day in the process of working with people in auxiliary professions and challenges therapists to think seriously about the meaning of their lives. Accordingly, the present study ...
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Human life represents a lifelong endeavor to seek and construct meaning. This basic dimension of existence is present every day in the process of working with people in auxiliary professions and challenges therapists to think seriously about the meaning of their lives. Accordingly, the present study was conducted with the aim of identifying the components and sources of meaning of life in counseling students. This qualitative research was performed by interpretive phenomenological method. The study population included all postgraduate counseling students at Allameh Tabatabai University in the winter of 1399. Participants were selected using purposive sampling logic and snowball method and sampling was continued until information saturation. Finally, 14 subjects (11 girls and 3 boys) were studied through semi-structured interviews. Data analysis was performed using Van Mann's 6-step content analysis method. From the data analysis, 36 sub-themes, 7 main themes and one core theme were obtained. At the a sense of meaning in the lives of the participants. Also, some of them did not achieve significant coherence in the meaningful elements of life, which led to the emergeironmental factors in the context of "environmental determinants" expressedfe. According to the findings, the meaning of life includes many components and resources in counseling students, in which their helping profession has a lot of intervention. Also, sometimes contradictory concepts such as the lack of a stable value system and ing of life, indicate the evolving, fluid and dynamic meaning of life in this group, which is a growth task throughout their working life.
yaser rezapoor; maryam zakeri
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The purpose of present study was to investigate the effectiveness of holographic reprocessing therapy on the meaning in life, fear of negative evaluation and rumination of depressed women. This was a multiple baseline single-case study design. Tow depressed women who referred to social emergency center ...
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The purpose of present study was to investigate the effectiveness of holographic reprocessing therapy on the meaning in life, fear of negative evaluation and rumination of depressed women. This was a multiple baseline single-case study design. Tow depressed women who referred to social emergency center of Badroud city participated to the study and received 12 sessions holographic reprocessing therapy. Two weeks before the intervention, both of participants answer to meaning in life questionnaire (Steger & et al, 2006), fear of negative evaluation scale (Leary, 1983) and Ruminative response scale (Nolen-Hoeksema & Morrow, 1991). Also, the participants answered to thes questionnaire one day before the first session, as well as in the fourth, eighth and and twelfth intervention sessions and finally one month after the end of the sessions as follow up. The data were analyzed using graph analysis, improvement percentile rank and reliable change index. The findings showed that there were significant clinically and statistically improvement in The findings showed that there were significant clinically and statistically decrease in rumination of the participants after treatment. After two months of follow-up, differences were also maintained, indicating the sustainability of the therapeutic effects. According to the results, it can be concluded that holographic reprocessing therapy has significant effect on the meaning in life, fear of negative evaluation and rumination of depressed women was.
