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Key figures in existential counseling include: |
-Viktor Frankl, Rollo May, Irving Yalom
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The central focus of existential therapy is on
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the nature of the human condition |
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The human condition includes:
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-a capacity for self-awareness |
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The crucial significance of the existential movement is: |
-that it reacts against the tendency to identify therapy with a set of techniques -instead, it bases therapeutic practice on an understanding of what it means to be human |
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The philosophy of existential therapy: |
-it is an approach vs. a firm theoretical model -it stresses core human conditions -personality development is based on the uniqueness of each individual -sense of self develops from infancy -focus is on the present and on what one is becoming (this approach has a future orientation) -self-awareness before action is stressed |
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Treatment goals: |
-to help people see that they are free and become aware of their possibilities -to challenge people to recognize that they are responsible for events that they formerly thought were happening to them -to identify factors that block freedom |
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Therapeutic relationship: |
-the therapist's main tasks are to accurately grasp clients' being-in-the-world and to est. a personal and authentic encounter with them -the immediacy of the cx-tx relationship and the authenticity of the here-and-now encounter are stressed -both client and therapist can be changed by the encounter |
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Techniques: |
-are not stressed in this approach -therapist can borrow from other approaches as needed -diagnosis, testing, and external measurements are not deemed important |
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Applications of existential therapy: |
-people facing life transitions or dev. crises -people with existential concerns (making choices, dealing with freedom and responsibility, coping with guilt and anxiety, making sense of life) -individual or group counseling -marital or family counseling -crisis intervention -community mental health work |
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The greater our self-awareness |
the greater our possibilities for freedom. |
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Developing a capacity for self-awareness includes understanding the following: |
-we are finite and do not have unlimited time to do what we want in life -we have the potential to take action or not; inaction is a decision -we choose our own actions and we partially create our own destiny -existential anxiety is an essential part of living: as we increase our awareness of the choices available to us, we also increase our sense of responsibility -we are subject to loneliness, meaninglessness, emptiness, guilt, and isolation -we are basically alone yet we have an opportunity to relate to other beings |
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What is existential guilt? |
-it is being aware of having evaded a commitment or having chosen not to choose -what we experience when we do not live authentically -it results from allowing others to define us or make choices for us |
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2 central tasks of the therapist are: |
1. inviting clients to recognize how they have allowd others to decide for them 2. encouraging them to take steps toward autonomy |
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Existential therapy helps clients come to terms with: |
the paradoxes of existence: life and death, success and failure, freedom and limitations, and certainty and doubt |
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The central goal of existential therapy is: |
helping clients to develop increased awareness, which allows clients to realize they are able to make changes in their way of being in the world |
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logotherapy |
Frankl- the primary motivational force of an individual is to find a meaning in life |
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existential vacuum |
meaningless in life can lead to emptiness and hollowness (often experienced when ppl are not busy, like w/ o work) |
