NSG 527 MIDTERM EXAM - Questions with Correct
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68 questions with answers
Topic: NSG 527 MIDTERM EXAM
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: ■ Choicefree to choose ■ Freedomfree to shape their destiny ■
Responsibilityresponsible for their own actions or inactions ■ Awarenessthrough
self-awareness, people can choose their actions and create their own destiny ■
Alonenesspart of the human condition that people enter and depart the world alone ■
Meaningpart of the human condition is the struggle for a sense of meaning ■ Anxietyis a
condition of living and is inevitable ■ Deaththe fear of death must be faced before one can
truly live
3. Founders of existential therapy
Answer: ■ Leading figures include Frankl, May and Yalom
4. The existential therapist and the subjective world
Answer: The function of the existential therapist is to understand the client's subjective
world
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. The "Givens" of existence (Yalom)
Answer: ■ Freedom and Responsibility ■ Isolation ■ Meaninglessness ■ Death
8. 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 selfrelatedness. 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
9. Umwelt
Answer: the biological world, environment
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, 10. Mitwelt
Answer: literally means "with world" is the relationship with others in society and culture
11. Eigenwelt
Answer: "own world" self-awareness and self-relatedness. It is grasping of what something
in the world personally means to the individual
12. Überwelt
Answer: A person's connection to abstract and absolute aspects of living - the ideological
beliefs about life, death and existence
13. 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.
14. 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
15. 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
16. Founder of gestalt therapy
Answer: ■ Founded by Fritz Perls
17. 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
18. "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
19. Impasse (Gestalt)
Answer: that point where we don't progress in our selfsupport 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.
20. Dialogue (Gestalt)
Answer: ■ Inclusion, presence, commitment to dialogue, no exploitation, dialogue is lived
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Answers (Verified Update)
68 questions with answers
Topic: NSG 527 MIDTERM EXAM
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: ■ Choicefree to choose ■ Freedomfree to shape their destiny ■
Responsibilityresponsible for their own actions or inactions ■ Awarenessthrough
self-awareness, people can choose their actions and create their own destiny ■
Alonenesspart of the human condition that people enter and depart the world alone ■
Meaningpart of the human condition is the struggle for a sense of meaning ■ Anxietyis a
condition of living and is inevitable ■ Deaththe fear of death must be faced before one can
truly live
3. Founders of existential therapy
Answer: ■ Leading figures include Frankl, May and Yalom
4. The existential therapist and the subjective world
Answer: The function of the existential therapist is to understand the client's subjective
world
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. The "Givens" of existence (Yalom)
Answer: ■ Freedom and Responsibility ■ Isolation ■ Meaninglessness ■ Death
8. 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 selfrelatedness. 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
9. Umwelt
Answer: the biological world, environment
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, 10. Mitwelt
Answer: literally means "with world" is the relationship with others in society and culture
11. Eigenwelt
Answer: "own world" self-awareness and self-relatedness. It is grasping of what something
in the world personally means to the individual
12. Überwelt
Answer: A person's connection to abstract and absolute aspects of living - the ideological
beliefs about life, death and existence
13. 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.
14. 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
15. 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
16. Founder of gestalt therapy
Answer: ■ Founded by Fritz Perls
17. 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
18. "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
19. Impasse (Gestalt)
Answer: that point where we don't progress in our selfsupport 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.
20. Dialogue (Gestalt)
Answer: ■ Inclusion, presence, commitment to dialogue, no exploitation, dialogue is lived
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