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WorksheetsREHS 6360: Quiz #4 Existential Therapy
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 30mins
Which person is not associated with the existential movement?
Rollo May
Viktor Frankl
Irvin Yalom
B.F. Skinner
The central goal of existential psychotherapy is to:
Decrease self-awareness
Increase self-awareness
Help clients reject responsibility of choosing
Keep the client from experiencing authentic existence
Existential therapy is best considered as:
An approach to understand the subjective world of the client
a school of therapy
a system of techniques designed to create authentic humans
a strategy for uncovering dysfunctional behavior
According to the existential viewpoint, death:
makes life absurd
makes life meaningless & hopeless
gives significance to living
should not be explored in therapy
Existential therapy is:
a deterministic approach to therapy
an expansion of the Adlerian school of therapy
a phenomenological approach to therapy
a structure approach to therapy
Viktor Frankl’s approach to existential therapy is known as:
individual psychology
logotherapy
reality therapy
redecision therapy
In regards to freedom and responsibility, existential therapy embraces three values. Which of the following is not one of these values?
The capacity to reflect on the meaning of our choices
The freedom to become within the context of natural and self-imposed limitations
The freedom to choose our past and the choices of our parents
The capacity to act on the choices we make
Ursula lived in New York City on 9/11. Ever since experiencing the aftermath of the terrorist attacks, she has felt anxiety about going to the upper level floors of tall buildings. As an existentially oriented therapist, you might conclude that:
Ursula is highly neurotic.
Ursula’s anxiety is normal in light of the traumatic experience she had on 9/11.
Ursula is on the verge of becoming psychotic.
Ursula’s fears are completely unfounded
The central theme running through the works of Viktor Frankl is:
the will to meaning.
that freedom is a myth.
self-disclosure as the key to mental health.
self-disclosure as the key to mental health.
The therapist’s presence is:
a condition of therapeutic change
a goal of therapeutic change.
both a condition and a goal of therapeutic change
neither a condition nor a goal of therapeutic change
