2017
DOI: 10.1037/hum0000061
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Characteristic practices of existential psychotherapy: A worldwide survey of practitioners’ perspectives.

Abstract: Existential psychotherapy is a recognized and widespread therapeutic paradigm, with almost 100 years of clinical intervention. Despite some evidence of its effectiveness, existential psychotherapists have been criticized for a lack of a coherent framework of practice. Existential authors have been reluctant to make explicit their therapeutic methods, and an encompassing consensual understanding of its core constitutional practices has yet to be reached. To begin to address this, an online international survey … Show more

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“…A worldwide survey of counselors and psychotherapists' perspectives on existential psychotherapy practices revealed the need to study the specifics of the existential psychotherapy process [11]. A meta-analysis of existential therapies pointed out their effectiveness in making meaning in life and reducing distress [12].…”
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confidence: 99%
“…A worldwide survey of counselors and psychotherapists' perspectives on existential psychotherapy practices revealed the need to study the specifics of the existential psychotherapy process [11]. A meta-analysis of existential therapies pointed out their effectiveness in making meaning in life and reducing distress [12].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Correia and colleagues Correia et al, 2016;Correia, Correia, Cooper, & Berdondini, 2014a, 2014b Phenomenological practices was the most frequent category in the Correia et al (2016) study and covered sub-categories such as the use of the phenomenological method of enquiry, adopting a phenomenological attitude towards the contents brought to the session by clients, and interpretations from a hermeneutic stance. The next most frequent were methods of specific existential branches, which covered very specific practices associated with classic logotherapy (e.g., paradoxical intention, dereflexion), Längle's existential analysis (e.g., the method of Personal Existential Analysis) and…”
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“…) and only three studies (Alegria et al, 2016;Correia et al, 2016;Norcross, 1987) have empirically investigated it.…”
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