Existential therapy can work for youths: use of creative activities can make important treatment concepts come to life.(Feature) From: Addiction Professional | Date: September 1, 2007| Author: Cook, David D. | COPYRIGHT 2007 Vendome Group LLC. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Teetering on the boundaries between philosophy and psychotherapy, existential therapy involves helping clients find meaning in their lives and emphasizes that the driving force in life is an innate spiritual desire to find this meaning. Because this therapy's roots are planted firmly in the concepts of existential philosophy--a philosophy that deals squarely with questions of human existence--it might be easier to think of existential therapy as more of a counselor's philosophical ...