Exisential Therapy Quiz

Question 1

The key concepts of the existential approach can be integrated into most therapeutic approaches.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

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.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

According to Sartre, existential guilt is being aware of having evaded a commitment, or having chosen not to choose for ourselves.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Existentialists maintain that our experience of aloneness is a result of our making inappropriate choices.

Answer 4

False

Question 5

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

Answer 5

True

Question 6

To its credit, existential therapy is compatible with the trend toward evidence-based practice.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

Part of the human condition is that humans are both free and responsible.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Anxiety is best considered as a neurotic manifestation; thus, the principal aim of therapy is to eliminate anxiety.

Answer 8

False

Question 9

Emmy van Deurzen has made significant contributions to the development of existential therapy in the United Kingdom through her writing and teaching.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

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.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

__________, developed by Victor Frankl, is designed to help clients find meaning in life.

Answer 11

Logotherapy

Question 12

Which is not a key concept of existential therapy?

Answer 12

It is based on a well-defined set of techniques and procedures.

Question 13

Existential therapists are primarily concerned with:

Answer 13

understanding the client’s subjective world.

Question 14

According to the existential view, anxiety is a:

Answer 14

condition of living

Question 15

Resistance is seen as part of ______________—how a person understands his or her being and relationship to the world at large.

Answer 15

The therapist’s honesty, integrity, and courage.

Question 16

During the initial phase of counselling:

Answer 16

therapists assist clients in identifying and clarifying their assumptions about the world.

Question 17

Normal anxiety is viewed by existential therapists as:

Answer 17

an appropriate response to an event being faced.

Question 18

The existential approach bases therapeutic practice on:

Answer 18

an understanding of what it means to be human.

Question 19

Existential therapy is basically:

Answer 19

an experiential and relational approach.

Question 20

Existential therapy places emphasis on:

Answer 20

the quality of the client–therapist relationship.

Question 21

The existential focus on subjective experience, or __________, is a strength from a multicultural perspective.

Answer 21

phenomenology

Question 22

The existential therapist would probably agree that:

Answer 22

ultimately we are alone.

Question 23

The existential “givens of existence” include all of the following except:

Answer 23

taxes

Question 24

Which of the following is a shortcoming of the existential approach in working with culturally diverse client populations?

Answer 24

The focus is excessively individualistic and ignores the social factors that cause human problems.