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Midterm Exam : NSG527 / NSG 527 (ALL Latest 2025
ULTIMATE STUDY BUNDLE WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS) Psychopathology, Theories and Advanced
Clinical Modalities Exams | Questions and Verified
Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Wilkes
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."
· 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
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◦ 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 .....ANSWER.....◦ Leading figures
include Frankl, May and Yalom
The existential therapist and the subjective world
.....ANSWER.....The function of the existential therapist is to
understand the client's subjective world
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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.
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.
The "Givens" of existence (Yalom) .....ANSWER.....◦ Freedom and
Responsibility
◦ Isolation
◦ Meaninglessness
◦ Death
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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 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 .....ANSWER.....the biological world, environment
Mitwelt .....ANSWER.....literally means "with world" is the
relationship with others in society and culture
Midterm Exam : NSG527 / NSG 527 (ALL Latest 2025
ULTIMATE STUDY BUNDLE WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS) Psychopathology, Theories and Advanced
Clinical Modalities Exams | Questions and Verified
Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Wilkes
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."
· 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
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◦ 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 .....ANSWER.....◦ Leading figures
include Frankl, May and Yalom
The existential therapist and the subjective world
.....ANSWER.....The function of the existential therapist is to
understand the client's subjective world
,Page 3 of 52
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.
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.
The "Givens" of existence (Yalom) .....ANSWER.....◦ Freedom and
Responsibility
◦ Isolation
◦ Meaninglessness
◦ Death
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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 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 .....ANSWER.....the biological world, environment
Mitwelt .....ANSWER.....literally means "with world" is the
relationship with others in society and culture
