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Meaning-making
Process of understanding changes in life / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In psychology, meaning-making is the process of how people construe, understand, or make sense of life events, relationships, and the self.[1]
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The term is widely used in constructivist approaches to counseling psychology and psychotherapy,[2] especially during bereavement in which people attribute some sort of meaning to an experienced death or loss.[3] The term is also used in educational psychology.[4]
In a broader sense, meaning-making is the main research object of semiotics, biosemiotics, and other fields.[5] Social meaning-making is the main research object of social semiotics and related disciplines.[5]