NSG527 FINAL [2026] UPDATED ACTUAL Exam | Question
and Answer | STEP-BY-STEP SOLUTIONS
• · Key themes and principles of existential therapy -✓✓ ◦ 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 -✓✓ ◦ Leading figures include Frankl, May and
Yalom
• The existential therapist and the subjective world -✓✓ The function of the
existential therapist is to understand the client's subjective world
• Anxiety in existential therapy -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ ◦ Existential psychotherapy is centered in
resolving life's existential themes.
◦ Dysfunction occurs when existential themes are unresolved, and people live a
meaningless life.
, • The "Givens" of existence (Yalom) -✓✓ ◦ Freedom and Responsibility
◦ Isolation
◦ Meaninglessness
◦ Death
• The three forms of the world- "being in the world" (Dimensions of the World
Views) - Existential therapy -✓✓ ◦ 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 -✓✓ 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
and Answer | STEP-BY-STEP SOLUTIONS
• · Key themes and principles of existential therapy -✓✓ ◦ 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 -✓✓ ◦ Leading figures include Frankl, May and
Yalom
• The existential therapist and the subjective world -✓✓ The function of the
existential therapist is to understand the client's subjective world
• Anxiety in existential therapy -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ ◦ Existential psychotherapy is centered in
resolving life's existential themes.
◦ Dysfunction occurs when existential themes are unresolved, and people live a
meaningless life.
, • The "Givens" of existence (Yalom) -✓✓ ◦ Freedom and Responsibility
◦ Isolation
◦ Meaninglessness
◦ Death
• The three forms of the world- "being in the world" (Dimensions of the World
Views) - Existential therapy -✓✓ ◦ 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 -✓✓ 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
