NSG527/NSG 527 midterm exam (NEW
2025/2026 Update) Psychopathology,
Theories and Advanced Clinical
Modalities Review Questions &
Answers Grade A.
Existential Psychotherapy - 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."
· Key themes and principles of existential therapy - Answer ◦ Choice- free to choose
◦ Freedom- free to shape their destiny
◦ Responsibility- responsible for their own actions or inactions
◦ Awareness- through self-awareness, people can choose their actions and create their own
destiny
◦ Aloneness- part of the human condition that people enter and depart the world alone
◦ Meaning- part of the human condition is the struggle for a sense of meaning
◦ Anxiety- is a condition of living and is inevitable
◦ Death- the fear of death must be faced before one can truly live
Founders of existential therapy - Answer ◦ Leading figures include Frankl, May and Yalom
The existential therapist and the subjective world - Answer The function of the existential
therapist is to understand the client's subjective world
Anxiety in existential therapy - 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 - Answer ◦ Existential psychotherapy is centered in resolving life's
existential themes.
◦ Dysfunction occurs when existential themes are unresolved, and people live a meaningless life.
, ◦ Death
The three forms of the world- "being in the world" (Dimensions of the World Views) - Existential
therapy - Answer ◦ Umwelt - the biological world, environment
◦ Mitwelt - literally means "with world" is the relationship with others in society and culture
◦ Eigenwelt - "own world" self-awareness and self-relatedness. It is grasping of what something
in the world personally means to the individual
◦ Überwelt - A person's connection to abstract and absolute aspects of living - the ideological
beliefs about life, death and existence
Umwelt - Answer the biological world, environment
Mitwelt - Answer literally means "with world" is the relationship with others in society and
culture
Eigenwelt - Answer "own world" self-awareness and self-relatedness. It is grasping of what
something in the world personally means to the individual
Überwelt - Answer A person's connection to abstract and absolute aspects of living - the
ideological beliefs about life, death and existence
Existential approach and philosophy - Answer ◦ Explores the here and now without looking
into the past and emphasizes a person's responsibility for their own existence.
◦ The approach is experiential/relational and based on the philosophical concern with what it
means to be fully human.
◦ Emphasis is based on understanding the human experience and focuses on the client rather
than the symptom.
Gestalt Therapy - Answer Gestalt, a German word meaning organized whole, recognizes the
unity of humans as integrated wholes, not divided into parts, taken out of context, or
generalized
Key themes and principles of gestalt therapy - Answer ◦ The more we work at becoming who
or what we are not, the more we remain the same
◦ Authentic change occurs more from being who we are, rather than trying to be who we are
2025/2026 Update) Psychopathology,
Theories and Advanced Clinical
Modalities Review Questions &
Answers Grade A.
Existential Psychotherapy - 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."
· Key themes and principles of existential therapy - Answer ◦ Choice- free to choose
◦ Freedom- free to shape their destiny
◦ Responsibility- responsible for their own actions or inactions
◦ Awareness- through self-awareness, people can choose their actions and create their own
destiny
◦ Aloneness- part of the human condition that people enter and depart the world alone
◦ Meaning- part of the human condition is the struggle for a sense of meaning
◦ Anxiety- is a condition of living and is inevitable
◦ Death- the fear of death must be faced before one can truly live
Founders of existential therapy - Answer ◦ Leading figures include Frankl, May and Yalom
The existential therapist and the subjective world - Answer The function of the existential
therapist is to understand the client's subjective world
Anxiety in existential therapy - 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 - Answer ◦ Existential psychotherapy is centered in resolving life's
existential themes.
◦ Dysfunction occurs when existential themes are unresolved, and people live a meaningless life.
, ◦ Death
The three forms of the world- "being in the world" (Dimensions of the World Views) - Existential
therapy - Answer ◦ Umwelt - the biological world, environment
◦ Mitwelt - literally means "with world" is the relationship with others in society and culture
◦ Eigenwelt - "own world" self-awareness and self-relatedness. It is grasping of what something
in the world personally means to the individual
◦ Überwelt - A person's connection to abstract and absolute aspects of living - the ideological
beliefs about life, death and existence
Umwelt - Answer the biological world, environment
Mitwelt - Answer literally means "with world" is the relationship with others in society and
culture
Eigenwelt - Answer "own world" self-awareness and self-relatedness. It is grasping of what
something in the world personally means to the individual
Überwelt - Answer A person's connection to abstract and absolute aspects of living - the
ideological beliefs about life, death and existence
Existential approach and philosophy - Answer ◦ Explores the here and now without looking
into the past and emphasizes a person's responsibility for their own existence.
◦ The approach is experiential/relational and based on the philosophical concern with what it
means to be fully human.
◦ Emphasis is based on understanding the human experience and focuses on the client rather
than the symptom.
Gestalt Therapy - Answer Gestalt, a German word meaning organized whole, recognizes the
unity of humans as integrated wholes, not divided into parts, taken out of context, or
generalized
Key themes and principles of gestalt therapy - Answer ◦ The more we work at becoming who
or what we are not, the more we remain the same
◦ Authentic change occurs more from being who we are, rather than trying to be who we are
