The existential group focuses on techniques designed to assist members in experiencing catharsis.

F

Anxiety can be an impetus to change and thus can be a positive characteristic.

T

The fact that we will die can actually motivate us to create a meaningful existence.

T

Existentialists believe we are not ultimately alone if we establish intimate ties with others.

F

An existential group might be described as people making a committment to begin and complete a lifelong journey of self-exploration

T

The existential view is that since ware thrust into the world, life is basically hopeless.

F

The basic goal of an existential group is to treat sx's so that members can be free of existential anxiety.

F

The exitential group leader sets the tone for the group by introducing techniques and doing something to get people talking openly

F

The existential approach has some distinct advantages in working with members from diverse cultural backgrounds

T

Existential group work aims at curing people in the traditional medical sense.

F

Existential tx is best described as:

a) a systematic approach to behavior modification

b) a philosophy w/ which a therapist operates

c) a set of techniques designed to change behavior

d)a form of psychoanalytic therapy

e) a seperate school of therapy

B

An existential group works toward all of the following goals except:

a) enabling people to become truthful with themselves

b) widening clients' perspectives on themselves and the world around them

c) helping people adjust to the dominant norms in society

d) finding clarity on what gives memaning to present and future living

C

Two of the most significant spokespeople for the

existential approach in the US are:

a) Heinz Kohut and Otto Kernberg

b) Medard Boss and Ludwig Binswanger

c) Rollo May and Irvin Yalom

d) Martin Buber and Jean-Paul Sartre

e) Erik Erikson and Margaret Mahler

C

The existential group focuses on:

a) unresolved conflicts that were repressed in childhood

b) here and now forces within the group

c) techniques designed to assist members in gaining catharsis

d) measuring the observable outcomes of a group

e) working through the transference relationship with the leader

B

Which of the following is a limitation of the existential approach in wroking with culturally diverse client populations?

a) the focus on understanding and accepting the client

b) the focus on finding meaning in one's life

c) the focus on death as a catalyst to living fully

d) the focus on one's own responsibility rather than on social conditions

D

All of the following are considered key concepts guiding the functioning of an existential group except:

a) the search for authenticity

b) discovering the patterns of one's lifestyle

c) death and nonbeing

d) the search for meaning

e) aloneness and relatedness

B

The existential view of death is that it:

a) renders us hopeless

b) makes life less meaningful

c) gives meaning to every moment

d) creates an existential vacuum

e) motivates usto seek organized religion as source of values

C

In an existential group the leader would tend to:

a) challenge members to become aware of their freedom and responsibility

b) urge members to free themselves of guilt and anxiety

c) aim for a deep catharsis for each member

d) encourage a regression to one's early past

e) help each member see how his or her lifestyle has a bearing on present interactions with others in the group.

A

The view in existential groups is that techniques:

a) should be secondary to understanding members

b) are specified to bringing about change

c) interfere with the therapeutic process

d) imply a loss of faith in the client's ability to find his or her own way.

e) lead to inauthenticity on the part of members.

A