NSG 527 MIDTERM (Complete And Verified Study material) (15pages) LEARNEXAMS

1. 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." 2. · Key themes and principles of existential therapy: Answer æ Choice- free to choose æ Freedom- free to shape their destiny æ Responsibility- responsible for their own actions or inactions æ Awareness- through self-awareness, people can choose their actions and create their own destiny æ Aloneness- part of the human condition that people enter and depart the world alone æ Meaning- part of the human condition is the struggle for a sense of meaning æ Anxietyis a condition of living and is inevitable æ Death- the fear of death must be faced before one can truly live 3. Founders of existential therapy: Answer æ Leading figuresinclude Frankl, May and Yalom 4. The existential therapist and the subjective world: Answer The function of the existential therapist is to understand the client's subjective world 5. Anxiety in existential therapy: Answer The goals of existential psychotherapy center on the given themes of existence and help people face the anxieties oflife,freely choose their life direction, take responsibility for their choices, and create a meaningful existence.