NSG 527 MIDTERM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100 VERIFIED A GUARANTEED
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NSG 527 MIDTERM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% VERIFIED A+ GUARANTEED
Existential Psychotherapy
· Key themes and principles of existential therapy
Founders of existential therapy
The existential therapist and the subjective world
Anxiety in existential therapy
Guilt in existential therapy
The "...
NSG 527 MIDTERM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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1). Existential psychotherapy
Ans: "A phenomenological-personal psychotherapy with the aim of enabling a person
to experience his or her life freely at the spiritual and emotional levels, to arrive at
authentic decisions and to come to a responsible way of dealing with himself or herself
and the world around them."
2). · key themes and principles of existential therapy
Ans: ◦ Choice- free to choose
◦ Freedom- free to shape their destiny
◦ Responsibility- responsible for their own actions or inactions
◦ Awareness- through self-awareness, people can choose their actions and create their
own destiny
◦ Aloneness- part of the human condition that people enter and depart the world alone
◦ Meaning- part of the human condition is the struggle for a sense of meaning
◦ Anxiety- is a condition of living and is inevitable
◦ Death- the fear of death must be faced before one can truly live
3). Founders of existential therapy
Ans: ◦ Leading figures include Frankl, May and Yalom
4). The existential therapist and the subjective world
Ans: The function of the existential therapist is to understand the client's subjective
world
5). Anxiety in existential therapy
Ans: The goals of existential psychotherapy center on the given themes of existence
and help people face the anxieties of life, freely choose their life direction, take
responsibility for their choices, and create a meaningful existence.
6). Guilt in existential therapy
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, Ans: ◦ Existential psychotherapy is centered in resolving life's existential themes.
◦ Dysfunction occurs when existential themes are unresolved, and people live a
meaningless life.
7). The "givens" of existence (yalom)
Ans: ◦ Freedom and Responsibility
◦ Isolation
◦ Meaninglessness
◦ Death
8). The three forms of the world- "being in the world" (dimensions of the world views) -
existential therapy
Ans: ◦ Umwelt - the biological world, environment
◦ Mitwelt - literally means "with world" is the relationship with others in society and culture
◦ Eigenwelt - "own world" self-awareness and self-relatedness. It is grasping of what
something in the world personally means to the individual
◦ Überwelt - A person's connection to abstract and absolute aspects of living - the
ideological beliefs about life, death and existence
9). Umwelt
Ans: the biological world, environment
10). Mitwelt
Ans: literally means "with world" is the relationship with others in society and culture
11). Eigenwelt
Ans: "own world" self-awareness and self-relatedness. It is grasping of what something
in the world personally means to the individual
12). Überwelt
Ans: A person's connection to abstract and absolute aspects of living - the ideological
beliefs about life, death and existence
13). Existential approach and philosophy
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