pt. 1. Recognizing and understanding the problem. Chasing the wind ; The nature of meaninglessness ; The causes and dynamics of meaninglessness -- pt. 2. Specific counseling approaches and methods. Love and meaning ; Counseling as releasing ; The existential approach to counseling ; The contributions of Viktor Frankl ; The logotherapy approach ; Socratic questioning ; Paradoxial intention ; Dereflection ; Loss, grief, and emptiness ; Intervention with cancer patients ; Counseling the depressed person for meaning ; Violence and meaning ; Addiction and meaning ; Guilt, grace, and meaning ; Suffering : pain or misery? ; Counseling children for meaning ; Counseling youth for meaning ; Meaning as a resource in marriage counseling ; Finding meaning in the workplace ; Counseling the retired and elderly for meaning ; Self-esteem and meaning ; Helping clients become responsible ; Evil as a couse of meaninglessness and confusion ; Finding a meaning through creating ; Humor : a tool to use in the discovery of meaning ; The meaning of the moment ; Introducing clients to intergenerational resources ; The meaning of touch ; Terminating counseling : the meaning of leaving -- pt. 3. The counselor's use of self. Receiving from clients ; The pastor's two families ; Joining your client ; The wind from heaven -- pt. 4. Preventing meaninglessness. Meaning, justice, and service ; Meaning and health ; Training listener-responders in churches -- Appendix. Useful resouces on counseling for meaning.