NSG 527 COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS
●● Existential therapy
Focus?
Answer: - 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?
Answer: -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
,Answer: 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
Answer: 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?
Answer: Understand client's subjective world
●● Existential therapy
Individuals world view
Answer: 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
Answer: - 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
Answer: Can be used for substance abuse, depression, anxiety, PTSD.
●● Gestalt therapy
Founder
Answer: Fredrick Perls and Laura Perls
●● Gestalt therapy
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS
●● Existential therapy
Focus?
Answer: - 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?
Answer: -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
,Answer: 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
Answer: 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?
Answer: Understand client's subjective world
●● Existential therapy
Individuals world view
Answer: 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
Answer: - 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
Answer: Can be used for substance abuse, depression, anxiety, PTSD.
●● Gestalt therapy
Founder
Answer: Fredrick Perls and Laura Perls
●● Gestalt therapy
