NRNP 6645 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST
UPDATED VERSION, ALREADY GRADED A+
Body awareness (Example of Creative experimentation)
Patients frequently have blocked body energies manifested by shallow breathing, speaking in a
restricted voice, shaking legs, or fidgeting fingers. Gestalt therapists pay close attention to the patient's
body and create experiments to heighten body awareness
Focusing (Creative experimentation)
Focusing is used to make contact with disowned or alienated aspects of self sometimes use music or art
to do this
empty-chair dialogues (creative experimentation)
used to complete unfinished business with a significant other or with two conflicting aspects of self; they
put the other person or self into an empty chair and have a dialogue with them
Language of Responsibility
technique focuses specifically on deflected language that a patient may use to decrease the intensity of
awareness and contact. For example, patients may use questions rather than statements to keep
themselves safe or use pronouns such as “it” or “you” to deflect the intensity of feelings. When using
the language of responsibility, the therapist asks the patient to put a question into a statement or use a
first person pronoun to heighten awareness
Example:
Patient: it is so difficult to find a partner.
APPN: Would you be willing to say, “I am finding it so difficult to find a partner”?
Dreamwork (creative experimentation)
A common intervention Gestalt therapy where characters and objects in the dreams are viewed as
projections of disowned parts of self that need to be reintegrated
Existential Psychotherapy
centered in resolving life's existential themes; dysfunction occurs when existential themes are
unresolved and people live a meaningless life
Choice, freedom, responsbility, awareness, aloneness, meaning, anxiety, death, authenticity, awe
Existential themes
existential anxiety
, As awareness of the consequences of freedom, choice, responsibility, isolation, and death increases,
anxiety is inevitable. Existential anxiety is a stimulus for growth and an appropriate response to having
the courage to be. The aim of therapy is not to eliminate anxiety but to be aware of it and embrace it in
order to live a fulfilling life
This therapy's main goal is to help patients face anxities related to personal freedom, choice,
aloneness, and death
Existential Therapy
In this type of therapy assessment is focused on a phenomenological understanding of the subjective
world of the patient rather than employing traditional assessment procedures and diagnostic
constructs
Existential therapy: generally not concerned with the patient's past; instead, the emphasis is on the
choices to be made in the present and future
True of False: Existential therapists have themselves examined.
True: They have worked through the universal themes of life. Interventions are thus based on an
understanding of what it means to be more fully human. The existential psychotherapist is free to draw
on techniques from other orientations
The _____________________ of the therapeutic relationship is the most important aspect of
existential therapy.
Quality: It emphasizes an authentic I-Thou encounter between the patient and therapist
Presence
Cultivated by the therapist in existential therapy presence is a subjective experience of being in the here
and now in a relationship and intending, at a very deep level, to participate as fully as one is able;
Bugental (1987) wrote that therapists need to maintain full presence to the patient's experience in the
moment and to closely attend to patient's immediate inner flow of experience. "Be there!" and "Insist
that the patient be there!"
The following questions are examples of what type of technique in existential therapy?
*What is the purpose of your life? •Where is the source of meaning for you?
•You want to live an authentic life, yet you stay in a relationship and a job that give you little
satisfaction.
*How are you keeping yourself stuck?
•What might be accomplished in treatment that would help you live a more authentic life?
Experential Reflection
EFT
Emotion-focused therapy short-term humanistic-existential psychotherapy approach; integrates person-
centered therapy, Gestalt therapy, and the neuroscience research of emotions
UPDATED VERSION, ALREADY GRADED A+
Body awareness (Example of Creative experimentation)
Patients frequently have blocked body energies manifested by shallow breathing, speaking in a
restricted voice, shaking legs, or fidgeting fingers. Gestalt therapists pay close attention to the patient's
body and create experiments to heighten body awareness
Focusing (Creative experimentation)
Focusing is used to make contact with disowned or alienated aspects of self sometimes use music or art
to do this
empty-chair dialogues (creative experimentation)
used to complete unfinished business with a significant other or with two conflicting aspects of self; they
put the other person or self into an empty chair and have a dialogue with them
Language of Responsibility
technique focuses specifically on deflected language that a patient may use to decrease the intensity of
awareness and contact. For example, patients may use questions rather than statements to keep
themselves safe or use pronouns such as “it” or “you” to deflect the intensity of feelings. When using
the language of responsibility, the therapist asks the patient to put a question into a statement or use a
first person pronoun to heighten awareness
Example:
Patient: it is so difficult to find a partner.
APPN: Would you be willing to say, “I am finding it so difficult to find a partner”?
Dreamwork (creative experimentation)
A common intervention Gestalt therapy where characters and objects in the dreams are viewed as
projections of disowned parts of self that need to be reintegrated
Existential Psychotherapy
centered in resolving life's existential themes; dysfunction occurs when existential themes are
unresolved and people live a meaningless life
Choice, freedom, responsbility, awareness, aloneness, meaning, anxiety, death, authenticity, awe
Existential themes
existential anxiety
, As awareness of the consequences of freedom, choice, responsibility, isolation, and death increases,
anxiety is inevitable. Existential anxiety is a stimulus for growth and an appropriate response to having
the courage to be. The aim of therapy is not to eliminate anxiety but to be aware of it and embrace it in
order to live a fulfilling life
This therapy's main goal is to help patients face anxities related to personal freedom, choice,
aloneness, and death
Existential Therapy
In this type of therapy assessment is focused on a phenomenological understanding of the subjective
world of the patient rather than employing traditional assessment procedures and diagnostic
constructs
Existential therapy: generally not concerned with the patient's past; instead, the emphasis is on the
choices to be made in the present and future
True of False: Existential therapists have themselves examined.
True: They have worked through the universal themes of life. Interventions are thus based on an
understanding of what it means to be more fully human. The existential psychotherapist is free to draw
on techniques from other orientations
The _____________________ of the therapeutic relationship is the most important aspect of
existential therapy.
Quality: It emphasizes an authentic I-Thou encounter between the patient and therapist
Presence
Cultivated by the therapist in existential therapy presence is a subjective experience of being in the here
and now in a relationship and intending, at a very deep level, to participate as fully as one is able;
Bugental (1987) wrote that therapists need to maintain full presence to the patient's experience in the
moment and to closely attend to patient's immediate inner flow of experience. "Be there!" and "Insist
that the patient be there!"
The following questions are examples of what type of technique in existential therapy?
*What is the purpose of your life? •Where is the source of meaning for you?
•You want to live an authentic life, yet you stay in a relationship and a job that give you little
satisfaction.
*How are you keeping yourself stuck?
•What might be accomplished in treatment that would help you live a more authentic life?
Experential Reflection
EFT
Emotion-focused therapy short-term humanistic-existential psychotherapy approach; integrates person-
centered therapy, Gestalt therapy, and the neuroscience research of emotions
