NSG527 MIDTERM [2026] UPDATED ACTUAL Exam |
Question and Answer | A+ VERIFIED ANSWERS
• Existential therapy
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 -✓✓ 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)
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
Question and Answer | A+ VERIFIED ANSWERS
• Existential therapy
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 -✓✓ 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)
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
