NSG527exam1 Questions And Answers

Existential Persons responsible for developing - Answer- in US Rollo May, Irvin Yalom; in UK Emmy van Deurzen-Smith; Victor Frankl Focus of Existential therapy - Answer- therapists focus on patient's subjective experience; exploring themes such as mortality, meaning, freedom, responsibility, anxiety, and aloneness as these relate to a person's current struggle. Goal of existential therapy: - Answer- assist clients in their exploration of the existential "givens of life", how these are sometimes ignored or denied, and how addressing them can ultimately lead to a deeper, more reflective and meaningful existence. To expand self-awareness, to increase choice potentials, to help clients accept responsibility for choosing, and to help the client experience authentic existence. Functions of therapist Existential: - Answer- "fellow traveler" "we are all in this together" someone just like us who has no judgment or opinion about our existence Core tenets of therapy existential : - Answer- Central issue is freedom and responsibility. The I-Am experience, normal and neurotic anxiety, guilt and guilt feelings, the three forms of world, significance of time, our human capacity to transcend the immediate situation. Existential therapy rests on six key propositions - Answer- 1) We have the capacity for self-awareness. (2) Because we are basically free beings, we must accept the responsibility that accompanies our freedom. (3) We have a concern to preserve our uniqueness and identity; we come to know ourselves in relation to knowing and interacting with others. (4) The significance of our existence and the meaning of our life are never fixed once and for all; instead, we re-create ourselves through our projects. (5) Anxiety is part of the human condition. (6) Death is also a basic human condition, and awareness of it gives significance to living. Terms related to process existential - Answer- umwelt (natural world), mitwelt (public world), eigenwelt (private world), uberwelt (ideal world); logotherapy- Frankl, teaches that meaning in life cannot be dictated but can only be discovered by searching in our own existential situation persons responsible for the development Gestalt therapy: - Answer- Frederick Perls and Laura Perls types of theory Gestalt therapy - Answer- highlights more the process (what is taking place) and not the content (what is said about it). The stress is on what is happening, considered and felt right now rather than on what took place, might, could or should happen. focus of therapy Gestalt? - Answer- Self-delusion is the reason for inauthenticity: living not based on the real fac