NSG527 / NSG 527 Midterm Exam Review (Latest 2024 / 2025): Psychopathology, Theories, & Advanced Clinical Modalities | Rated A Questions and Verified Answers - Wilkes

NSG527 / NSG 527 Midterm Exam Review (Latest 2024 / 2025): Psychopathology, Theories, & Advanced Clinical Modalities | Rated A Questions and Verified Answers - Wilkes Gestalt therapy five layers of neurosis - correct answer-1. Phony- authentic, reactions are unauthentic. 2. Phobic- avoiding pain. 3. Impasse- afraid of change. 4. Implosive- awareness increase, not ready for action 5. Explosive- they are authentic. Existential therapy Founder? - correct answer-Rollo May & Irvin Yalom Existential therapy Focus? - correct 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? - correct 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 - correct 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 - correct 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? - correct answer-Understand client's subjective world Existential therapy Individuals world view - correct 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 - correct 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 - correct answer-Can be used for substance abuse, depression, anxiety, PTSD. Gestalt therapy Founder - correct answer-Fredrick Perls and Laura Perls Gestalt therapy Perls Belief - correct answer-Perls believed that one of the reasons patients develop mental health symptoms was because they weren't aware of their sense or emotion. They didn't have recognition of bodily sensations, and poor awareness of their environment. He also believed mental health symptoms could be caused by unfinished business (feelings are not expressed) and not taking responsibility. Gestalt therapy Premise - correct answer-- Change occurs through the increase the awareness of the here and now - it focuses on what's happening in the moment, both within the client and therapist. Gestalt therapy Goal - correct answer-- move from environmental support to self support through awareness and self- determination. - the goal is to have the patient gain more awareness and eventually be able to support themselves for regulation instead of relying on the environmen