NSG 527 STUDY GUIDE 2026 VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND DETAILED ANSWERS
GRADED A+
⩥ · 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
◦ Überwelt - A person's connection to abstract and absolute aspects of
living - the ideological beliefs about life, death and existence
⩥ Umwelt.
Answer: the biological world, environment
⩥ Mitwelt.
Answer: literally means "with world" is the relationship with others in
society and culture
⩥ Eigenwelt.
Answer: "own world" self-awareness and self-relatedness. It is grasping
of what something in the world personally means to the individual
⩥ Überwelt.
Answer: A person's connection to abstract and absolute aspects of living
- the ideological beliefs about life, death and existence
⩥ Existential approach and philosophy.
Answer: ◦ Explores the here and now without looking into the past and
emphasizes a person's responsibility for their own existence.
QUESTIONS AND DETAILED ANSWERS
GRADED A+
⩥ · 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
◦ Überwelt - A person's connection to abstract and absolute aspects of
living - the ideological beliefs about life, death and existence
⩥ Umwelt.
Answer: the biological world, environment
⩥ Mitwelt.
Answer: literally means "with world" is the relationship with others in
society and culture
⩥ Eigenwelt.
Answer: "own world" self-awareness and self-relatedness. It is grasping
of what something in the world personally means to the individual
⩥ Überwelt.
Answer: A person's connection to abstract and absolute aspects of living
- the ideological beliefs about life, death and existence
⩥ Existential approach and philosophy.
Answer: ◦ Explores the here and now without looking into the past and
emphasizes a person's responsibility for their own existence.
