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NSG 527 Midterm Exam Study Guide: Key
Psychotherapy Concepts | Actual verified Study
complete Solutions | A+ Graded | 2026 Updates |
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1-6.
Exam Topics:
Existential Psychotherapy
Gestalt Therapy
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy
Relational Cultural Psychotherapy
Transtheoretical Model of Change
Motivational Interviewing
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Deep Brain Stimulation
Module I: Existential Psychotherapy
● Key themes and principles - Central focus is on a person’s experience, helping people
come to terms with their issues in life, experiential and relational approach, patients can
make their own choices and stress freedom and personal awareness; the therapist tries
to understand the patient’s world
● Founders - Rollo May and Irvin Yalom in the US, Emmy van Deurzen-Smith in the UK.
● The existential therapist and the subjective world
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● Anxiety in existential therapy – normal anxiety is an unavoidable part of the human
condition; Anxiety arises from our personal need to survive, to preserve our being, and to
assert our being; can be neurotic or normal
● Guilt in existential therapy – Similar to anxiety, can be neurotic, normal, or towards
ourselves for not living up to our potential; Neurotic guilt feelings (generally called guilt)
often arise out of fantasized transgressions. Other forms of guilt, which we call normal
guilt, sensitize us to the ethical aspects of our behavior
● The “Givens” of existence – death, freedom, meaningless, and isolation per Yalom
● The three forms of the world- “being in the world” - Umwelt (Natural world), the Mitwelt
(Public world), and the Eigenwelt (Private world), and Uberwelt (ideal world) ●
Existential approach and philosophy
Module II: Gestalt Therapy
● Key themes and principles – Focus on the here and now and encourage patients to be
more aware and move from an area of environmental support to self-support.
Phenomenology (awareness of what is felt subjectively right in that moment), learning to
be aware, dealing with an impasse, and accepting personal responsibility; commitment
to dialogue, inclusion, and presence; there are no ‘shoulds’, only independence and
selfdetermination
● Founder – Frederick and Laura Perls
● Awareness in Gestalt – only goal in Gestalt therapy is awareness; awareness as
content and awareness as a process
● “Here and Now” – ‘now’ is the current awareness of the client; ‘now’ is applied to the
present moment, not past happenings
NSG 527 Midterm Exam Study Guide: Key
Psychotherapy Concepts | Actual verified Study
complete Solutions | A+ Graded | 2026 Updates |
100% correct
1-6.
Exam Topics:
Existential Psychotherapy
Gestalt Therapy
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy
Relational Cultural Psychotherapy
Transtheoretical Model of Change
Motivational Interviewing
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Deep Brain Stimulation
Module I: Existential Psychotherapy
● Key themes and principles - Central focus is on a person’s experience, helping people
come to terms with their issues in life, experiential and relational approach, patients can
make their own choices and stress freedom and personal awareness; the therapist tries
to understand the patient’s world
● Founders - Rollo May and Irvin Yalom in the US, Emmy van Deurzen-Smith in the UK.
● The existential therapist and the subjective world
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● Anxiety in existential therapy – normal anxiety is an unavoidable part of the human
condition; Anxiety arises from our personal need to survive, to preserve our being, and to
assert our being; can be neurotic or normal
● Guilt in existential therapy – Similar to anxiety, can be neurotic, normal, or towards
ourselves for not living up to our potential; Neurotic guilt feelings (generally called guilt)
often arise out of fantasized transgressions. Other forms of guilt, which we call normal
guilt, sensitize us to the ethical aspects of our behavior
● The “Givens” of existence – death, freedom, meaningless, and isolation per Yalom
● The three forms of the world- “being in the world” - Umwelt (Natural world), the Mitwelt
(Public world), and the Eigenwelt (Private world), and Uberwelt (ideal world) ●
Existential approach and philosophy
Module II: Gestalt Therapy
● Key themes and principles – Focus on the here and now and encourage patients to be
more aware and move from an area of environmental support to self-support.
Phenomenology (awareness of what is felt subjectively right in that moment), learning to
be aware, dealing with an impasse, and accepting personal responsibility; commitment
to dialogue, inclusion, and presence; there are no ‘shoulds’, only independence and
selfdetermination
● Founder – Frederick and Laura Perls
● Awareness in Gestalt – only goal in Gestalt therapy is awareness; awareness as
content and awareness as a process
● “Here and Now” – ‘now’ is the current awareness of the client; ‘now’ is applied to the
present moment, not past happenings
