Exisential Therapy Quiz Flashcards
The key concepts of the existential approach can be integrated into most therapeutic approaches.
True
Existential therapists are free to draw from techniques that flow from many other orientations, but they have a set of assumptions and attitudes that guide their interventions with clients.
True
According to Sartre, existential guilt is being aware of having evaded a commitment, or having chosen not to choose for ourselves.
True
Existentialists maintain that our experience of aloneness is a result of our making inappropriate choices.
False
Although existentially-oriented therapists may incorporate many techniques from other models, these interventions are made within the context of striving to understand the subjective world of the client
True
To its credit, existential therapy is compatible with the trend toward evidence-based practice.
False
Part of the human condition is that humans are both free and responsible.
True
Anxiety is best considered as a neurotic manifestation; thus, the principal aim of therapy is to eliminate anxiety.
False
Emmy van Deurzen has made significant contributions to the development of existential therapy in the United Kingdom through her writing and teaching.
True
The existential approach is highly relevant in working in a multicultural context because it does not dictate a particular way of viewing or relating to reality, and because of its broad perspective.
True
__________, developed by Victor Frankl, is designed to help clients find meaning in life.
Logotherapy
Which is not a key concept of existential therapy?
It is based on a well-defined set of techniques and procedures.
Existential therapists are primarily concerned with:
understanding the client’s subjective world.
According to the existential view, anxiety is a:
condition of living
Resistance is seen as part of ______________—how a person understands his or her being and relationship to the world at large.
The therapist’s honesty, integrity, and courage.
During the initial phase of counselling:
therapists assist clients in identifying and clarifying their assumptions about the world.
Normal anxiety is viewed by existential therapists as:
an appropriate response to an event being faced.
The existential approach bases therapeutic practice on:
an understanding of what it means to be human.
Existential therapy is basically:
an experiential and relational approach.
Existential therapy places emphasis on:
the quality of the client–therapist relationship.
The existential focus on subjective experience, or __________, is a strength from a multicultural perspective.
phenomenology
The existential therapist would probably agree that:
ultimately we are alone.
The existential “givens of existence” include all of the following except:
taxes
Which of the following is a shortcoming of the existential approach in working with culturally diverse client populations?
The focus is excessively individualistic and ignores the social factors that cause human problems.
