NSG 527 MIDTERM Exam | Actual Questions and Answers
Latest Updated 2026/2027 (Graded A+)
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Existential Psychotherapy
- ✔✔"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."
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· Key themes and principles of existential therapy
i. - ✔✔◦ Choice- free to choose
ii. ◦ Freedom- free to shape their destiny
iii. ◦ Responsibility- responsible for their own actions or inactions
iv. ◦ Awareness- through self-awareness, people can choose their actions and create their
own destiny
v. ◦ Aloneness- part of the human condition that people enter and depart the world alone
vi. ◦ Meaning- part of the human condition is the struggle for a sense of meaning
vii. ◦ Anxiety- is a condition of living and is inevitable
viii. ◦ Death- the fear of death must be faced before one can truly live
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Founders of existential therapy
- ✔✔◦ Leading figures include Frankl, May and Yalom
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The existential therapist and the subjective world
- ✔✔The function of the existential therapist is to understand the client's subjective world
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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.
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Guilt in existential therapy
i. - ✔✔◦ Existential psychotherapy is centered in resolving life's existential themes.
ii. ◦ Dysfunction occurs when existential themes are unresolved, and people live a
meaningless life.
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The "Givens" of existence (Yalom)
i. - ✔✔◦ Freedom and Responsibility ◦ Isolation
, ii. ◦ Meaninglessness
iii. ◦ Death
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The three forms of the world- "being in the world" (Dimensions of the World Views) - Existential therapy
i. - ✔✔◦ Umwelt - the biological world, environment
ii. ◦ Mitwelt - literally means "with world" is the relationship with others in society and culture
iii. ◦ Eigenwelt - "own world" self-awareness and self-relatedness. It is grasping of what
something in the world personally means to the individual
iv. ◦ Überwelt - A person's connection to abstract and absolute aspects of living - the
ideological beliefs about life, death and existence
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Umwelt
- ✔✔the biological world, environment
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Mitwelt
- ✔✔literally means "with world" is the relationship with others in society and culture
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Eigenwelt
- ✔✔"own world" self-awareness and self-relatedness. It is grasping of what something in
the world personally means to the individual
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Überwelt
- ✔✔A person's connection to abstract and absolute aspects of living - the ideological
beliefs about life, death and existence
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Existential approach and philosophy
i. - ✔✔◦ Explores the here and now without looking into the past and emphasizes a person's
responsibility for their own existence.
ii. ◦ The approach is experiential/relational and based on the philosophical concern with what
it means to be fully human.
iii. ◦ Emphasis is based on understanding the human experience and focuses on the client
rather than the symptom.
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Gestalt Therapy
- ✔✔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
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Key themes and principles of gestalt therapy
Latest Updated 2026/2027 (Graded A+)
•
Existential Psychotherapy
- ✔✔"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
i. - ✔✔◦ Choice- free to choose
ii. ◦ Freedom- free to shape their destiny
iii. ◦ Responsibility- responsible for their own actions or inactions
iv. ◦ Awareness- through self-awareness, people can choose their actions and create their
own destiny
v. ◦ Aloneness- part of the human condition that people enter and depart the world alone
vi. ◦ Meaning- part of the human condition is the struggle for a sense of meaning
vii. ◦ Anxiety- is a condition of living and is inevitable
viii. ◦ 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
i. - ✔✔◦ Existential psychotherapy is centered in resolving life's existential themes.
ii. ◦ Dysfunction occurs when existential themes are unresolved, and people live a
meaningless life.
•
The "Givens" of existence (Yalom)
i. - ✔✔◦ Freedom and Responsibility ◦ Isolation
, ii. ◦ Meaninglessness
iii. ◦ Death
•
The three forms of the world- "being in the world" (Dimensions of the World Views) - Existential therapy
i. - ✔✔◦ Umwelt - the biological world, environment
ii. ◦ Mitwelt - literally means "with world" is the relationship with others in society and culture
iii. ◦ Eigenwelt - "own world" self-awareness and self-relatedness. It is grasping of what
something in the world personally means to the individual
iv. ◦ 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
•
Existential approach and philosophy
i. - ✔✔◦ Explores the here and now without looking into the past and emphasizes a person's
responsibility for their own existence.
ii. ◦ The approach is experiential/relational and based on the philosophical concern with what
it means to be fully human.
iii. ◦ Emphasis is based on understanding the human experience and focuses on the client
rather than the symptom.
•
Gestalt Therapy
- ✔✔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
