meaning-making
Sign in to savethumbnail|right|Young Girl Weeping for her Dead Bird by Jean-Baptiste Greuze In psychology, meaning-making is the process of how people (and other living beings) construe, understand, or make sense of life events, relationships, and the self.
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12 sectionsContents
- History
- Learning as meaning-making
- In bereavement
- Family bonds
- Spirituality and religiosity
- Philanthropy
- In cancer treatment
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumbnail|right|Young Girl Weeping for her Dead Bird by Jean-Baptiste Greuze In psychology, meaning-making is the process of how people (and other living beings) construe, understand, or make sense of life events, relationships, and the self.
The term is widely used in constructivist approaches to counseling psychology and psychotherapy, especially during bereavement in which people attribute some sort of meaning to an experienced death or loss. The term is also used in educational psychology.