Course Description:  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?

 

Objectives

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

 

2. Identify intra-psychic obstacles to the growth and healing of the patient.
3. Explain the “read” case history and symptomatology for therapeutic indicia.