The goal of the course is to give mental health practitioners a basic understanding of logotherapy that includes its history, its underlying principles, its clinical applications and its use today.

Following the completion of the course, participants will be able to:

• Identify the relationships among body, mind and spirit as understood by logotherapy

• Identify what is meant by a uniquely human dimension in logotherapy

• Compare and contrast the “Will to Meaning” with motivational constructs in other forms of therapy

• Identify Frankl’s laws of dimensional ontology

• Understand the role and function of the conscience in logotherapy

• Identify each of Frankl’s categorical values

• Identify the philosophical assumptions of logotherapy

• Define the existential vacuum

• Understand the similarities and differences between logotherapy and the positive psychology movement

• Gain an introductory understanding of paradoxical intention

• Gain an introductory understanding of dereflection

• Gain an introductory understanding of Socratic dialogue

• Gain an introductory understanding of other logotherapeutic techniques