The Happiness Project: Distressed Adolescents’ Search for Personal Meaning
Journal Title: Asian Journal Social Sciences & Humanities - Year 2014, Vol 3, Issue 4
Abstract
This developed group manual intends to help distressed adolescents who are searching for meaning or purpose in their life (may it be in their academic or personal life and future vocation). The aim of this manual is for this population to achieve an increased sense of well-being by finding their purpose in life. There will be 6 sessions which will be executed on a weekly basis. The researcher will be able to determine the effectiveness of the group intervention by comparing the results of the Meaning in Life Questionnaire before and after the group intervention. The implication of this is to switch our focus from a search for happiness to a search for meaning since finding one’s meaning in life paves the way to finding happiness. Though this quest is a continuous process for we are all a work in progress, it is good to have a starting point than to continuously carry on with our lives without even knowing why we are here in the first place or without even knowing what we are searching for.
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Maria J. Santos
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