Elderly clients frequently experience tragic situations. Mental health practitioners have not sufficiently addressed the connections between tragedy, meaning and mental health invervention. In this article the authors review the existential concept of the meaning vacuum and outline a number of logotherapy intervention activities which can be used by mental health workers to help elderly clients overcome a sense of meaninglessness during a tragic situation.
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Lantz et al. (1989) studied this question.
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