A Unique Approach to Family Counseling

<p>Family counseling requires a holistic approach to address complex problems that emerge in families. Elisabeth Lukas has helped hundreds of families using ideas embodied in Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy. In this book topics include:</p><ul> <li>Meaningful education</li> <li>The search for meaning in youth</li> <li>Self-transcendence in conflict resolution</li> <li>Self-help and crisis intervention</li> <li>Meaning-centered family counseling</li> <li>The meaning of children’s play</li></ul><p><strong>From the book:</strong><br /><em>We do not need theories of dysfunctions caused by unconscious traumas repressed sex symbols and inferiority complexes; we need education for responsibility. The crisis of our time can be seen as primarily educational a failure to educate people so they see themselves as full human beings.</em> (p. 3)<br /><em>Young individuals have not had much chance to discover meaning structures. Their existence is full of yet-unlived possibilities. But precisely because they have not discovered many meaning potentials their search is more urgent. If they want to fulfill innate longings for a meaningful life they have to start the quest. To start a harvest for their empty granaries they must go out into the fields rain or shine.</em> (p. 30)</p>