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Making Meaning of Loss: Change and Challenge Across the Lifespan is
about how change brings loss to our lives, how we make meaning of
loss, and how our experience with loss directs our encounters with
loss in the future. Each loss challenges us in this way: to rethink
our world view, to ask who we have become, and to reinvent
ourselves anew. Taking a lifespan approach, Richard L. Hayes
examines how we make sense of the losses that change brings in each
period of our lives and how the way in which we meet the challenge
that each loss brings directs our encounters with loss in the
future. In addition, he provides suggestions for how earlier losses
can become fruitful allies in encounters with change in the present
and how caregivers can help others to make meaning of the loss in
their lives.
This integrative book brings forty years of research and
scholarship in counseling, psychology, and education together in a
singular analysis. In Making Meaning, Hayes illustrates how the
construction of meaning can have a profound effect on how we come
to know ourselves and others. Hayes depicts meaning-making as an
ongoing, dialectical, and recursive process of change and
reinvention. This process plays a central role in individual
development and loss and helps promote multiculturalism,
collaboration, and group and team development. This book is
recommended for mental health professionals and educators looking
to promote democratic learning communities.
The integrative text of Meaning-Making: Counseling and Groupwork in
Education brings 40 years of research and scholarship in
counseling, psychology, and education together in a singular
analysis of the significant role meaning-making plays in how we
come to know ourselves and others. In rejecting the modern
understanding of the world as something "out there," Richard L.
Hayes offers that we live in a postmodern world of our own making
informed by our unique experience with that world. People are
presented as self-organizing systems who are set indivisibly within
changing social contexts. Development is the natural outcome of
their attempts to realize a more stable and reliable understanding
of that world. This meaning-making activity is positioned as an
ongoing, dialectical, and recursive process of change and
re-invention. The author argues that the construction of meaning is
at the heart of the change process in illuminating its central role
in individual development, loss, empowerment, multiculturalism,
group and team development, and fostering collaboration. How these
processes can be used to promote the development of deliberate
democratic communities of learners illustrates how mental health
professionals and educators can apply these insights to their own
preparation and practice.
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