Existential Therapy

Question 1

True or false: the key concepts of the existential approach can be integrated into most therapeutic approaches

Answer 1

T

Question 2

True or false: existential therapists show wide latitude in the techniques they employ

Answer 2

T

Question 3

True or false: according to Sartre, existential guilt is the consciousness of evading commitment to choose for ourselves

Answer 3

T

Question 4

True or false: existentialists maintain that our experience of aloneness is a result of our making inappropriate choices

Answer 4

F

Question 5

True or false: techniques a secondary in the therapeutic process, and subjective understanding of the client is primary.

Answer 5

T

Question 6

True or false: to its credit, existential therapy is compatible with the trend towards evidence-based practice.

Answer 6

F

Question 7

True or false: part of the human condition is that humans are both free and responsible.

Answer 7

T

Question 8

True or false: anxiety is best considered as a neurotic manifestation; thus, the principal aim of therapy is to eliminate anxiety.

Answer 8

F

Question 9

True or false: Emmy Van Deurzen has made significant contributions to the development of existential therapy in the United Kingdom through her writing and teaching.

Answer 9

T

Question 10

The existential approach is a reaction against both psychoanalysis and behaviourism

Answer 10

T

Question 11

Who is the person who developed logotherapy?

Answer 11

Vicktor Frankl

Question 12

Which is not a key concept of existential therapy:
a. It is based on a personal relationship between client and therapist
B. It stresses personal freedom in deciding one’s fate
C. It places primary value on self-awareness
D. It is based on a well defined set of techniques and procedures

Answer 12

D

Question 13

One function of the existential therapist is to:
A. Develop a specific treatment plan that can be objectively appraised
B. Challenge the client’s irrational beliefs
C. Understand the client subjective world
D. Explore the client’s past history
E. Assist the client in working through transference

Answer 13

C

Question 14

According to the existential view, anxiety is
A. Result of repressed sexuality
B. Part of the human condition
C. Neurotic symptom that needs to be cured
D. Result of faulty learning

Answer 14

B

Question 15

Resistance is seen as being part of (Fill this gap): that is how a person understands his or her being and relationship to the world at large
A. The existential vacuum
B. Authenticity
C. The world-at-large concept
D. Social interest
E. The self-and-world construct

Answer 15

E

Question 16

What is the most crucial quality of the therapist in building an effective therapeutic relationship with a client?
A. The therapists knowledge of theory
B. The therapist’s skill in using techniques
C. The therapists ability to diagnose accurately
D. The therapists authenticity
E. The therapists application of evidence-based practice

Answer 16

D

Question 17

Who is the person who was the main American spokesperson of European existential thinking has applied to psychotherapy?
A. Rollo may
B. Erik Erikson
C. Rudolf Dreikers
D. Carl Jung

Answer 17

A

Question 18

Guilt and anxiety I viewed by existential therapists as:
A. Behaviours that are unrealistic
B. The result of traumatic situations in childhood
C. Conditions that should be removed or cured
D. All of the above
E. None of the above

Answer 18

E

Question 19

The existential approach is based on
A. Specific behaviours that can be assessed
B. A scientific orientation
C. Teaching-learning model that stresses the didactic aspects of therapy
D. The philosophical concern with what it means to be fully human
E. A manualised approach to treatment

Answer 19

D

Question 20

Existential therapy is basically:
A. A behavioural approach
B. A cognitive approach
C. An experiential and relational approach
D. And evidence-based approach
E. A recent development of the psychoanalytic model

Answer 20

C

Question 21

Existential therapy places emphasis on:
A. Finding solutions to well-defined problems
B. The quality of the client-therapist relationship
C. Teaching clients cognitive and behavioural coping skills
D. Uncovering early childhood traumatic events
E. Working through unconscious conflicts

Answer 21

B

Question 22

The central theme running through the works of Victor Frankel is
A. Freedom is myth
B. The will to meaning
C. Overcoming our inferiority complex through striving for superiority
D. The importance of understanding one’s family of origin
E. Being thrown into the universe without purpose

Answer 22

B

Question 23

The existential therapist would probably agree that:
A. Aloneness is a sign of detachment
B. Aloneness is a condition that needs to be cured
C. Ultimately we are alone
D. We are alone unless we have religious faith
E. We are alone if we are not loved by others

Answer 23

C

Question 24

The existential "givens of life" include all of the following except:
A. Death
B. Taxes
C. Freedom
D. Existential isolation
E. Meaninglessness

Answer 24

B

Question 25

Which of the following is a limitation of the existential approach in working with culturally diverse client populations?
A. The focus on understanding and accepting the client
B. The focus on finding meaning in one’s life
C. The focus on death as a catalyst living fully
D. The focus on one’s own responsibility rather than on changing social conditions
E. The focus on the I/thou relationship

Answer 25

D