NSG 527 Midterm 1 (Complete And Verified Study material) (13pages) LEARNEXAMS

1. Existential therapy Founder?: Answer Rollo May & Irvin Yalom 2. Existential therapy Focus?: Answer - Universal features of the human condition and the acceptance of pain asan important part of the search for inner peace and happiness. - Anxiety is viewed as part of the human condition - Anxiety arises from our personal need to survive, to preserve our being, and toassert our being can be neurotic or normal. 3. Existential therapy Goal?: Answer - embracing the true nature of human existence to overcome anxiety and findthe meaning in life -Believing you are capable of making choices about who you want to be. - patient to express an increase in his or her private world by making choicesin orderto confront and overcome feelings of meaningless and isolation. 4. Existential therapy Philosophy: Answer You can make changes to be the person that you want to be. - Based on the philosophical concern with what it means to be fully human. - Based on a personal relationship between client and therapist - Stresses personal freedom in deciding one's fate -Places value on self-awareness