NSG 527 Midterm Combined Exam
Questions and Answers Graded A+
Existential therapy - Correct 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.
Choice - Correct answer-Free to choose
Freedom - Correct answer-Free to shape their delivery
Responsibility - Correct answer-Responsible for their own actions or inactions
Awareness - Correct answer-Through self-awareness, people can choose their
actions and create their own destiny
Aloneness - Correct answer-Part of the human condition is the struggle for a sense
of meaning
Anxiety - Correct answer-Is a condition of living and is inevitable
Death - Correct answer-The fear of death must be faced before one can truly live
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, Founders of existential therapy - Correct answer-Frankl;
May; and
Yalom
Anxiety in existential therapy - Correct 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 - Correct 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) - Correct answer-Freedom and responsibility;
Isolation;
Meaningless; and
Death
Umwelt - Correct answer-The biological world, environment
Mitwelt - Correct answer-Literally means "with world";
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Questions and Answers Graded A+
Existential therapy - Correct 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.
Choice - Correct answer-Free to choose
Freedom - Correct answer-Free to shape their delivery
Responsibility - Correct answer-Responsible for their own actions or inactions
Awareness - Correct answer-Through self-awareness, people can choose their
actions and create their own destiny
Aloneness - Correct answer-Part of the human condition is the struggle for a sense
of meaning
Anxiety - Correct answer-Is a condition of living and is inevitable
Death - Correct answer-The fear of death must be faced before one can truly live
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, Founders of existential therapy - Correct answer-Frankl;
May; and
Yalom
Anxiety in existential therapy - Correct 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 - Correct 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) - Correct answer-Freedom and responsibility;
Isolation;
Meaningless; and
Death
Umwelt - Correct answer-The biological world, environment
Mitwelt - Correct answer-Literally means "with world";
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