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Existential Therapy First Name Last Name Institution Introduction Existential therapy deals with issues revolving around human existence. For instance issues such as anxiety happiness despair the conflict between death and life meaning and authenticity. Therefore existential therapy focuses on the significance of the therapeutic affiliation in inspiring clients to accept responsibility in challenging existential anxieties and endeavoring after authenticity. Furthermore existential therapy matches existential thoughts by emphasizing on the need for freedom the human condition the meaning of life isolation and death. The major objective of existential therapy is to help the client to have an and responsibility creating ones identify and developing meaningful relationships with others the search for meaning purpose values and goals anxiety as a condition of living awareness of death and non-being. During the therapeutic process techniques are important in helping the counselor to create a relationship which enables him or her to understand and challenge the client. Work cited: 1.Corey Gerald. Theory and practice of counseling and psychotherapy. Nelson Education 2015. 2. Rogers Carl. On becoming a person: A therapist's view of psychotherapy. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012. 3.Rogers Carl. Client Centred Therapy (New Ed). Hachette UK 2012. [...]
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Assignment 3.1: Existential Psychotherapy This assignment supports the following lesson objectives: This assignment supports the following lesson objectives: The basic dimensions of the human condition, according to the existential approach include: Proposition 1: The Capacity for Self-Awareness Proposition 2: Freedom and Responsibility Proposition 3: Striving for Identity and Relationship to Others Proposition 4: The Search for Meaning Proposition 5: Anxiety as a Condition of Living Proposition 6: Awareness of Death and Nonbeing Existential therapy is best considered, as an invitation to clients to recognize the ways in which they are not living fully authentic lives and to make choices that will lead to their becoming what they are capable of being. Please write how this can be achieved by introducing clients to the six (6) Propositions. Assignment Overview This analysis exercise enhances critical thinking as well as explores the (6) Propositions of Existential Therapy. Deliverables Write a 1 to 2 page essay on the six (6) Propositions of Existential Therapy. How would you introduce the (6) Propositions of Existential Therapy to your clients to enable them to recognize the ways in which they are not living fully authentic lives, and to make choices that will lead to their becoming what they are capable of being. Step 1: Review Existential Therapy in the text: Read the Key Concepts and all six(6) Propositions Step 2: After learning about the Key Concepts of Existential Therapy and the (6) Propositions consider one (1) or two (2) of the following for your essay: Proposition 1: The Capacity for Self-Awareness Proposition 2: Freedom and Responsibility Proposition 3: Striving for Identity and Relationship to Others Proposition 4: The Search for Meaning Proposition 5: Anxiety as a Condition of Living Proposition 6: Awareness of Death and Nonbeing
Subject Area: Psychology
Document Type: Reports
