NSG 527 MIDTERM 2026
EXPERT VERIFED ACE THE
TEST
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 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.
, 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
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EXPERT VERIFED ACE THE
TEST
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 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.
, 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
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STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
