NSG 527 Midterm Exam Study Guide | 68 Question with
Correct Answers | Latest 202/27 Update | Wilkes University |
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Existential Psychotherapy - ANSWERS "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."
· Key themes and principles of existential therapy - ANSWERS ◦ 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 - ANSWERS ◦ Leading figures include Frankl,
May and Yalom
, The existential therapist and the subjective world - ANSWERS The function of
the existential therapist is to understand the client's subjective world
Anxiety in existential therapy - ANSWERS 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.
Guilt in existential therapy - ANSWERS ◦ 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) - ANSWERS ◦ Freedom and Responsibility
◦ Isolation
◦ Meaninglessness
◦ Death
The three forms of the world- "being in the world" (Dimensions of the World
Views) - Existential therapy - ANSWERS ◦ 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
Correct Answers | Latest 202/27 Update | Wilkes University |
Graded A+
Existential Psychotherapy - ANSWERS "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."
· Key themes and principles of existential therapy - ANSWERS ◦ 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 - ANSWERS ◦ Leading figures include Frankl,
May and Yalom
, The existential therapist and the subjective world - ANSWERS The function of
the existential therapist is to understand the client's subjective world
Anxiety in existential therapy - ANSWERS 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.
Guilt in existential therapy - ANSWERS ◦ 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) - ANSWERS ◦ Freedom and Responsibility
◦ Isolation
◦ Meaninglessness
◦ Death
The three forms of the world- "being in the world" (Dimensions of the World
Views) - Existential therapy - ANSWERS ◦ 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
