NSG 527 MIDTERM EXAM GUIDE CAREFULLY
STRUCTURED QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
VERIFIED ANSWERS (GRADED A+)
Existential Psychotherapy ANSWER >> "A phenomenological-personal psychotherapy
with the aim of enabling a person to experience his or her life freely at the spiritual and
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,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."
· Key themes and principles of existential therapy ANSWER >> ◦ 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
Founders of existential therapy ANSWER >> ◦ Leading figures include Frankl, May and
Yalom
The existential therapist and the subjective world ANSWER >> The function of the
existential therapist is to understand the client's subjective world
Anxiety in existential therapy ANSWER >> 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.
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, Guilt in existential therapy ANSWER >> ◦ Existential psychotherapy is centered in
resolving life's existential themes.
◦ Dysfunction occurs when existential themes are unresolved, and people live a
meaningless life.
The "Givens" of existence (Yalom) ANSWER >> ◦ Freedom and Responsibility
◦ Isolation
◦ Meaninglessness
◦ Death
The three forms of the world- "being in the world" (Dimensions of the World Views) -
Existential therapy ANSWER >> ◦ 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
Umwelt ANSWER >> the biological world, environment
Mitwelt ANSWER >> literally means "with world" is the relationship with others in society
and culture
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STRUCTURED QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
VERIFIED ANSWERS (GRADED A+)
Existential Psychotherapy ANSWER >> "A phenomenological-personal psychotherapy
with the aim of enabling a person to experience his or her life freely at the spiritual and
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,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."
· Key themes and principles of existential therapy ANSWER >> ◦ 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
Founders of existential therapy ANSWER >> ◦ Leading figures include Frankl, May and
Yalom
The existential therapist and the subjective world ANSWER >> The function of the
existential therapist is to understand the client's subjective world
Anxiety in existential therapy ANSWER >> 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.
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, Guilt in existential therapy ANSWER >> ◦ Existential psychotherapy is centered in
resolving life's existential themes.
◦ Dysfunction occurs when existential themes are unresolved, and people live a
meaningless life.
The "Givens" of existence (Yalom) ANSWER >> ◦ Freedom and Responsibility
◦ Isolation
◦ Meaninglessness
◦ Death
The three forms of the world- "being in the world" (Dimensions of the World Views) -
Existential therapy ANSWER >> ◦ 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
Umwelt ANSWER >> the biological world, environment
Mitwelt ANSWER >> literally means "with world" is the relationship with others in society
and culture
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