NSG 527 Exam 1 Complete And Study material 16pages LEARNEXAMS

1. Existential Personsresponsible for developing: Answer in US Rollo May, Irvin Yalom; in UK Emmy van Deurzen-Smith; Victor Frankl 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. 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 5. Core tenets of therapy existential :: Answer Central issue isfreedomand 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. 6. Existential therapy rests on six key propositions: Answer 1) We have the capacity for self-awareness.