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Nov 24, 2021 · Existential psychology is a branch of psychology which places emphasis on the phenomenological experience of the individual , and studies how they come to terms with life’s essential dilemmas and the condition of human existence .
However, current research on child development reveals that children actively influence their social and physical environment and hence begin from birth the process of self-determination. This article presents guidelines for implementing existential psychology with children derived from theoretical tenets and case study findings.
- Margie K. Kitano, Elaine S. LeVine
- 1987
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A study conducted in 1969 at the Alister Hardy research centre in Oxford invited ‘all those who felt that their lives have in any way been affected by some power beyond themselves’ to write an account of their experience (Berryman 1990, p. 510). In his review, Berryman notes an adult account of a moment in his childhood: While located in an educati...
Berryman (1990) points to the scarce attention to children’s interest in or, indeed, encounters with the existential. He exposes a widely held assumption that children do not have existential concerns primarily due to the fact that, in the context of the adult norm, their thinking is not yet developed or they lack the life experience required to en...
The Existential in Children’s Philosophy
Children’s empowerment is advocated by global and local conventions on children’s rights which focus increasingly on a pedagogical framework that embraces children’s expression of thoughts, their decision making and their holistic participation (Howe and Covell 2007). The idea of a democratic classroom builds on respect and critical thinking about the self and others. Critical thinking is also found at the centre of an emergent curricular field, known as philosophy of childhood that proposes...
Manifestations of the Existential in Education
Berryman (1990) addresses explicitly the role of adults in encompassing the existential in children. The widely held adult assumption that children do not have existential concerns results in a double bind for them: they struggle to remain true to the reality of their emerging existential questions while needing to conform to such assumption to maintain adults’ approval (Berryman 1990). Another block to children’s existential wonderings is the supposition that adult thinking is the norm: Such...
The Existential in Relational Learning
A number of studies on education focus on teachers’ own relationship with the existential; doing so, they speak to the need to address educators’ role in children’s engagement with the existential drawing on the strong relational nature of learning but also the shared confrontation with existential givens. Schell (1968, p. 8) discusses subjectivity in the light of Buber’s I-Thou relationship and argues that ‘knowing another as a person and how she knows herself to be from the inside’ is a pos...
Health is considered to be encompassing both the physical and the mental wellbeing of children. Existential agony can be prompted by outside events in the life of a child, such as terminal illness and displacement as well as by developmental transitions with loss at their centre, imprinting on the child’s emotional health.
- Zoi Simopoulou
- zoi.simopoulou@ed.ac.uk
- 2019
Nov 24, 2021 · Conclusion: Overall, results from this study show that P4C may be a promising intervention to foster greater autonomy in elementary school children, while also improving mental health. Keywords: existential therapy; philosophy for children; school-based intervention; self-determination theory.
Jul 1, 2016 · Mick Cooper is a professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of Roehampton, London, and a UKCP-registered existential psychotherapist. Mick is author and editor of a wide range of texts on existential, person-centred and relational approaches to therapy, including Existential Therapies (2nd ed., Sage 2017), Existential counselling and psychotherapy: Contributions to a pluralistic ...
- Edgar A. Correia, Mick Cooper, Lucia Berdondini, Karla Correia
- 2018
Nov 24, 2021 · Existential psychology is a branch of psychology which places emphasis on the phe- nomenological experience of the individual [34], and studies how they come to terms with life’s essential dilemmas and the condition of human existence [35].
Nov 6, 2017 · Despite different emphases, existential perspectives see the human essence as characterized by three qualities: (1) the uniqueness of the human species and the individual; (2) the indissolubility of the person and the situation; and (3) the ubiquity of freedom and threat in human experience.
