NSG 527 Midterm Actual Exam Study
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1. 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."
2. 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
3. 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 not (ex.- focusing on your inherent strengths, instead of working on
weaknesses)
,◦ Be here, be now
4. Founder of gestalt therapy - ANSWER ◦ Founded by Fritz Perls
5. Awareness in Gestalt - ANSWER ◦ The initial goal is for clients to expand
their awareness of what they are experiencing in the present moment
◦ Increased awareness is considered curative and by becoming aware, clients
can be integrated, or whole
6. "Here and Now" (Gestalt) - ANSWER ◦ The focus of Gestalt is NOT on the
why of behavior, but rather on the what and how of behavior & the here and
now
◦ Gestalt therapists are sensitive to how the here and now includes residues
from the past, such as body posture, habits, and beliefs
7. Impasse (Gestalt) - ANSWER that point where we don't progress in our
self-support maturity but need to continue the manipulation of their
environment (including people) to survive. This manipulation may include
playing helpless, crazy, angry, whatever it takes to get the other support they
feel they need.
8. Dialogue (Gestalt) - ANSWER ◦ Inclusion, presence, commitment to
dialogue, no exploitation, dialogue is lived
9. Goals of Gestalt - ANSWER The goal is awareness and restoring his/her
natural state of self-regulation. The goal is not an intellectual understanding
or the "why's" of one's problems, rather Gestalt focuses on the following:
◦ Acceptance of personal responsibility and assuming ownership of experiences,
including accepting the consequences of one's actions
◦ Move towards an increased awareness of themselves and the present moment
, ◦ Moving on from environmental support to self-support
◦ Dealing with the impasse
10.Empty chair (Gestalt) - ANSWER ◦ Empty chair dialogue, dreamwork,
fantasy games, top dog/under-dog techniques
11.Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy - ANSWER Dyadic Developmental
Psychotherapy involves the child and parents working together with the
therapist. The child gains relationship experience which helps her/him to
grow and heal emotionally. Family members develop healthy patterns of
relating and communicating.
12.Founders of existential therapy - ANSWER ◦ Leading figures include
Frankl, May and Yalom
13.The existential therapist and the subjective world - ANSWER The function
of the existential therapist is to understand the client's subjective world
14.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.
15.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.
16.The "Givens" of existence (Yalom) - ANSWER ◦ Freedom and
Responsibility
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1. 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."
2. 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
3. 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 not (ex.- focusing on your inherent strengths, instead of working on
weaknesses)
,◦ Be here, be now
4. Founder of gestalt therapy - ANSWER ◦ Founded by Fritz Perls
5. Awareness in Gestalt - ANSWER ◦ The initial goal is for clients to expand
their awareness of what they are experiencing in the present moment
◦ Increased awareness is considered curative and by becoming aware, clients
can be integrated, or whole
6. "Here and Now" (Gestalt) - ANSWER ◦ The focus of Gestalt is NOT on the
why of behavior, but rather on the what and how of behavior & the here and
now
◦ Gestalt therapists are sensitive to how the here and now includes residues
from the past, such as body posture, habits, and beliefs
7. Impasse (Gestalt) - ANSWER that point where we don't progress in our
self-support maturity but need to continue the manipulation of their
environment (including people) to survive. This manipulation may include
playing helpless, crazy, angry, whatever it takes to get the other support they
feel they need.
8. Dialogue (Gestalt) - ANSWER ◦ Inclusion, presence, commitment to
dialogue, no exploitation, dialogue is lived
9. Goals of Gestalt - ANSWER The goal is awareness and restoring his/her
natural state of self-regulation. The goal is not an intellectual understanding
or the "why's" of one's problems, rather Gestalt focuses on the following:
◦ Acceptance of personal responsibility and assuming ownership of experiences,
including accepting the consequences of one's actions
◦ Move towards an increased awareness of themselves and the present moment
, ◦ Moving on from environmental support to self-support
◦ Dealing with the impasse
10.Empty chair (Gestalt) - ANSWER ◦ Empty chair dialogue, dreamwork,
fantasy games, top dog/under-dog techniques
11.Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy - ANSWER Dyadic Developmental
Psychotherapy involves the child and parents working together with the
therapist. The child gains relationship experience which helps her/him to
grow and heal emotionally. Family members develop healthy patterns of
relating and communicating.
12.Founders of existential therapy - ANSWER ◦ Leading figures include
Frankl, May and Yalom
13.The existential therapist and the subjective world - ANSWER The function
of the existential therapist is to understand the client's subjective world
14.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.
15.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.
16.The "Givens" of existence (Yalom) - ANSWER ◦ Freedom and
Responsibility
