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COUN311 Q2

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

He was known to develop a therapy that focuses on finding meaning to one's suffering.

a)

Viktor Frankl

b)

James Bugental

c)

Friedrich Nietzsche

d)

Irvin Yalom

2.

This psychologist brought the European existentialist philosophies in the US and translated them into psychotherapeutic practice.

a)

Rollo May

b)

Irvin Yalom

c)

Soren Kierkegaard

d)

Jean-Paul Sartre

3.

He has developed his approach to psychotherapy based on the notion that existentialism deals with basic “givens of existence”.

a)

Irvin Yalom

b)

James Bugental

c)

Martin Heidegger

d)

Viktor Frankl

4.

What caused the Europeans to struggle with existential issues?

a)

World War II

b)

poverty

c)

feelings of isolation

d)

modernization

5.

How did James Bugental view resistance?

a)

Resistance is a form of self-protection

b)

Resistance is a symptom to be removed.

c)

Resistance is part of existence.

d)

Resistance should be changed by the therapist.

6.

This is salient when a person is not accepting personal responsibility.

a)

inauthenticity

b)

existential guilt

c)

neurotic anxiety

d)

existential vacuum

7.

This is experienced by a person when he/she evaded a commitment, or having chosen not to choose.

a)

existential guilt

b)

inauthenticity

c)

normal anxiety

d)

resistance

8.

How do existentialists view death?

a)

Positive as it helps the person appreciate the present.

b)

Negative since death makes a person immobile.

c)

Neutral because it is part of human life.

d)

It is not part of the therapeutic process.

9.

Choose two (2) of the "givens of existence" as identified by Yalom.

a)

death

b)

meaninglessness

c)

resistance

d)

guilt

10.

Which of the following states the goal of existential therapy?

a)

To help clients become more present.

b)

To accept clients whoever they are.

c)

To change clients' disruptive behaviors.

d)

To encourage clients to look into their past expe

11.

This refers to an appropriate response of a person to an event being faced?

a)

normal anxiety

b)

resistance

c)

neurotic anxiety

d)

guilt

12.

A phase in the existential therapy where therapists assist clients in identifying and clarifying their assumptions about the world.

a)

initial phase

b)

middle phase

c)

final phase

d)

end phase

13.

Which of the following situations show neurotic anxiety?

a)

A worker feels irrationally anxious about making a small mistake at work, fearing total rejection.

b)

A student feeling anxious for a major exam.

c)

A person with a diagnosed phobia of snakes who panics when seeing one.

d)

An employee feeling worried about losing a job due to company layoffs.

14.

What happens during the middle phase in existential therapy?

a)

Clients restructure values and attitudes.

b)

Clients put into action what they learned about themselves.

c)

Clients reflect on their own existence.

d)

Clients exhibits the tendency to be resistant with the process.