“Compare and contrast the existential and mindfulness approaches to understanding and working with fear and sadness. Which of these two approaches do you feel more drawn to and why? D240 Counselling: exploring fear and sadness”

This first point to be addressed will be the core theoretical grounding for the existential approach and the Mindfulness approach. Firstly, a comparison of the existential and mindfulness approaches and how they work with fear and sadness in several key areas. Moving to contrasting how each approach defines fear and sadness and why people experience fear and sadness. Moreover, a comparison of the two approaches and how they consider fear and sadness in the past, present and future, will be compared. Furthermore, explanations for why people remain in fear or sadness will be compared and contrasted. Additionally, this paper will compare the two approaches views on how to work with fear and sadness. Concluding, with an outline of my personal preference of the two approaches compared and why.

This essay will begin with a brief summary of the underlying theory which informs the existential…(short extract)