Finding meaning in the second half of life requires asking larger questions of clients, and challenging their values.   To ask these questions three things are requisite:  that they recover a sense of personal authority, that they strike a better balance between obligation to others and obligation to self, and that they construct a more mature spirituality.   How do they grow as persons, gain greater agency, and become increasingly at home with the person they are becoming?

Course Objectives:

Differentiate history of first half of life from the changed psychological agenda of the second half.

Identify intra-psychic obstacles to growth and healing of the patient.

Learn to “read” case history and symptomatology for therapeutic indicia.