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Q.1)	The basic goal of existential therapy is:

A.	to expand self-awareness

B.	to increase choice potentials

C.	to help clients accept the responsibility of choosing

D.	to help the client experience authentic existence

E.	all of the above

Q.2)	Which is not a key concept of existential therapy?

A.	It is based on a personal relationsihp between client and therapist

B.	It stresses personal freedom in deciding one's fate

C.	It places primary value on self-awareness

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

E.	all of the above

Q.3)	The function of the existentially oriented counselor is:

A.	develop a specific treatment plan that can be objectively appraised

B.	challenge the client's irrational beleifs

C.	understand the client's subjective world

D.	explore the client's past history in detail

E.	assist the client in working through transference

Q.4)	According to the existential view, anxiety is seen as a:

A.	result of repressed sexuality

B.	part of the human condition

C.	neurotic symptom that needs to be cured

D.	result of faulty learning

Q.5)	Existential therapy is best considered as:

A.	an approach to understanding humans

B.	a school of therapy

C.	a system of techniques designed to create authentic humans

D.	a strategy for uncovering dysfunctional behavior

Q.6)	Which might be considered the most crucial quality of a therapist in building an effective therapeutic relationship with a client?

A.	teh therapist's knowledge of theory

B.	the therapist's skill in using techniques

C.	the therapist's ability to diagnose effectively

D.	the therapsist's authenticity

Q.7)	Philosophically, the existentialist would agree that:

A.	the final decisions and choices rest wtih teh client

B.	people redefine themselves by their choicse

C.	a person can go beyond early conditioning

D.	making choices can create anxiety

E.	all of the above

Q.8)	The central issues in therapy is:

A.	freedom and responsibility

B.	resistance

C.	transference

D.	examining irrational beliefs

Q.9)	According to the existential viewpoint, death:

A.	makes life absurd

B.	makes life meaningless and hopeless

C.	gives significance to living

D.	should not be discussed or explored in therapy

Q.10)	Expanding awareness

A.	a basic goal of existential therapy

B.	possible only with a few clients

C.	not given emphasis in existential therpay

D.	not possible beacasue of our unconscious resistance

Q.11)	The philosophical assumptions underlying the existentail aproach include the notion(s) that:

A.	people are thrust into a meaningless and absurd world and that they are basically alone

B.	people must create their own meangings through their choices

C.	freedom is merely an illusion

D.	human destiny is mainly determined by external forces and social coniditioning

E.	both (a) and (b)

Q.12)	The notion of authorship states that we are authors of our life in the sense that we create our

A.

destiny

B.	life situation

C.

problems

D.	all of the above

E.	all but (b)

Q.13)	Existentialists contend that the experience of relatedness to other human beings:

A.	is jus ta neurotically dependent attachment

B.	shoudl be based on our needs and theirs

C.	can be therapeutic

D.	is not necessary, since we are basically alone

E.	all but (c)

Q.14)	According to existentialists, all fo the following issues are involved in our search for meaning except:

A.	discarding old values

B.	meaninglessness

C.	creating our own value system

D.	exploring unfinished business

E.	the struggle for significance in life

Q.15)	According to Yalom, the concern that make up the core of existentail pscyhodynamics is/are:

A.

death

B.

freedom

C.

isolation

D.	meaninglessness

E.	all of the above

Q.16)	A statement that best illustrates "bad faith" is:

A.	naturally I am this way, because I grew up in an alcoholic family

B.	I will not consider others in the choices that I make

C.	I mus tlive by commitments I make

D.	I am responsible for the choices that I make

E.	none of the above

Q.17)	Living authentically implies

A.	following the norms of our social group

B.	being true to our own evaluation of what constitutes a meaningful existence

C.	accepting responsibility for the fact that we create our lives by the choices that we make

D.	both (b) and (c)

Q.18)	Existential therapy is unlike many other therapies in that:

A.	it does nto have a well-defined set of techniques

B.	it stresses the I/Thou encounter in the therapy process

C.	it focuses on the use of the therapist's self as the core of therapy

D.	it allows for incorporation of techniques from mnay other approaches

E.	all of the above

Q.19)	The concept of "bad faith" refers to

A.	not keeping up to date with paying ones therapist

B.	leading in inauthentic existence

C.	the failure to cooperate with the therapeutic venture

D.	the experience of aloneness

E.	the unwillingness to search for meaning in life

Q.20)	Existential therapy can best be described as a system of highly developed techniques designed to foster authenticity.

A.

True

B.

Faulse

Q.21)	Existential therapy is rooted in the premise that humans can not escape from freedom and responsibility

A.

True

B.

False

Q.22)	According to existential thinking, effective therapy does not stop with awareness, for clients are challenged to take action based on their insights

A.

true

B.

false

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