NSG527 Midterm Exam Questions with Correct Verified
Solutions 2023-2024 Update.
1. Key principles of existential therapy?:
-Central focus is on a person's experience
-helping people come to terms with their issues in life
-experiential and relational approach
-patients can make their own choices
-stress freedom and personal awareness
-the therapist tries to understand the patient's world
2. Creators of existential therapy?:
-Rollo May and Irvin Yalom in the US
-Emmy van Deurzen-Smith in the UK
3. Anxiety in existential therapy?:
-normal anxiety is an unavoidable 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
4. Guilt in existential therapy?:
-Similar to anxiety
-can be neurotic, normal
-towards ourselves for not living up to our potential
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, NSG527 Midterm Exam Questions with Correct Verified
Solutions 2023-2024 Update.
-Neurotic guilt feelings (generally called guilt) often arise out of fantasized
transgressions
-Other forms of guilt, which we call normal guilt, sensitize us to the ethical aspects
of our behavior
5. The "givens" of existence per Yalom?:
-death: a tension between wanting to continue to exist but knowing death is
inevitable
-freedom: conflict between things in life being out of our control, heavy
responsibili- ties that come WI the ability to choose our own destiny
-meaningless: being thrown into a universe that seems to have no inhere1- meaning
-isolation: tension between wanting to connect deeply wl other humans & not
being able to do so , remaining existentially alone
6. The forms of "world?":
-Umwelt: being in the world
-Mitwelt: public world
-Elgenwelt: private world
-Uberwelt: ideal world
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Solutions 2023-2024 Update.
1. Key principles of existential therapy?:
-Central focus is on a person's experience
-helping people come to terms with their issues in life
-experiential and relational approach
-patients can make their own choices
-stress freedom and personal awareness
-the therapist tries to understand the patient's world
2. Creators of existential therapy?:
-Rollo May and Irvin Yalom in the US
-Emmy van Deurzen-Smith in the UK
3. Anxiety in existential therapy?:
-normal anxiety is an unavoidable 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
4. Guilt in existential therapy?:
-Similar to anxiety
-can be neurotic, normal
-towards ourselves for not living up to our potential
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, NSG527 Midterm Exam Questions with Correct Verified
Solutions 2023-2024 Update.
-Neurotic guilt feelings (generally called guilt) often arise out of fantasized
transgressions
-Other forms of guilt, which we call normal guilt, sensitize us to the ethical aspects
of our behavior
5. The "givens" of existence per Yalom?:
-death: a tension between wanting to continue to exist but knowing death is
inevitable
-freedom: conflict between things in life being out of our control, heavy
responsibili- ties that come WI the ability to choose our own destiny
-meaningless: being thrown into a universe that seems to have no inhere1- meaning
-isolation: tension between wanting to connect deeply wl other humans & not
being able to do so , remaining existentially alone
6. The forms of "world?":
-Umwelt: being in the world
-Mitwelt: public world
-Elgenwelt: private world
-Uberwelt: ideal world
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