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NSG 527 MIDTERM EXAM LATEST UPDATES -
2025/2026- ACTUAL QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS ALREADY GRADED A+ GUARANTEED
SUCCESS
Focus?
- Universal features of the human condition and the acceptance of pain as an
important part of the search for inner peace and happiness.
- Anxiety is viewed as 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.
Existential therapy
Goal?
-embracing the true nature of human existence to overcome anxiety and find the
meaning in life
-Believing you are capable of making choices about who you want to be.
- patient to express an increase in his or her private world by making choices in
order to confront and overcome feelings of meaningless and isolation.
Existential therapy
Philosophy
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You can make changes to be the person that you want to be.
- Based on the philosophical concern with what it means to be fully human.
- Based on a personal relationship between client and therapist
- Stresses personal freedom in deciding one's fate
-Places value on self-awareness
Existential therapy
Yalom's four givens of existence
1. Death: Death anxiety influences human behavior subconsciously.
2. freedom: responsible for one's life or destiny.
3. existential isolation: conformity to society's norms in order to not be isolated
from the masses.
4. Meaning of life: finding one's purpose (self-actualization)
Existential therapy
Function of the therapist?
Understand client's subjective world
Existential therapy
Individuals world view
1. Eigenwelt: own world (self identity, thoughts)
2. Mitwelt: with public world (interaction with society)
3. Unwelt: natural world around (how we relate to environment)
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4. Uberwelt: ideal world (based on beliefs and values)
Existential therapy
Techniques
- focusing on freedom and responsibility
- confronting negative thoughts and fears
- encouraging the embrace of life with hope, despite anxiety
- it does not focus on past, but past are used as tools to promote self-awareness and
assertiveness
- the use empathetic approach to foster personal responsibility for choices
Existential therapy
Applications
Can be used for substance abuse, depression, anxiety, PTSD.
Gestalt therapy
Founder
Fredrick Perls and Laura Perls
Gestalt therapy
Perls Belief
NSG 527 MIDTERM EXAM LATEST UPDATES -
2025/2026- ACTUAL QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS ALREADY GRADED A+ GUARANTEED
SUCCESS
Focus?
- Universal features of the human condition and the acceptance of pain as an
important part of the search for inner peace and happiness.
- Anxiety is viewed as 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.
Existential therapy
Goal?
-embracing the true nature of human existence to overcome anxiety and find the
meaning in life
-Believing you are capable of making choices about who you want to be.
- patient to express an increase in his or her private world by making choices in
order to confront and overcome feelings of meaningless and isolation.
Existential therapy
Philosophy
, 2
You can make changes to be the person that you want to be.
- Based on the philosophical concern with what it means to be fully human.
- Based on a personal relationship between client and therapist
- Stresses personal freedom in deciding one's fate
-Places value on self-awareness
Existential therapy
Yalom's four givens of existence
1. Death: Death anxiety influences human behavior subconsciously.
2. freedom: responsible for one's life or destiny.
3. existential isolation: conformity to society's norms in order to not be isolated
from the masses.
4. Meaning of life: finding one's purpose (self-actualization)
Existential therapy
Function of the therapist?
Understand client's subjective world
Existential therapy
Individuals world view
1. Eigenwelt: own world (self identity, thoughts)
2. Mitwelt: with public world (interaction with society)
3. Unwelt: natural world around (how we relate to environment)
, 3
4. Uberwelt: ideal world (based on beliefs and values)
Existential therapy
Techniques
- focusing on freedom and responsibility
- confronting negative thoughts and fears
- encouraging the embrace of life with hope, despite anxiety
- it does not focus on past, but past are used as tools to promote self-awareness and
assertiveness
- the use empathetic approach to foster personal responsibility for choices
Existential therapy
Applications
Can be used for substance abuse, depression, anxiety, PTSD.
Gestalt therapy
Founder
Fredrick Perls and Laura Perls
Gestalt therapy
Perls Belief
