Pyc4802 2014 Exam Paper

Name:

Karuna Mahadave

Course:

PSY499

Unique Number:

852926

Students Number:

31399681

PSY4999 – Unique No: 852926

Karuna Mahadave

31399681

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Therapeutic Psychology

Contents

Section A

1. Existential Therapy as Therapy of Choice

a. Introduction

3

b. Key Concepts

3

c. Techniques

6

2. Understanding of Self through Existential Therapy

8

3. Using Existential Therapy

8

Section B

1.

Name of Approach used

10

2.

Name of Organisation

10

3.

Supervisors Name and contact details

10

4.

Hours of work done

10

Section C

1.

Challenges faces

11

2.

High and low points doing volunteer work

11

Section D

1.

10-point scale to rate PSY4999

References

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Section A

Existential Therapy as Therapy of Choice

a.

Introduction

Existential Therapy is one that I have always favoured. I find that it resonates well with me

and I have therefore chosen it for further discussion.

Existential therapy is more a way of thinking than any particular style of practicing

Psychotherapy (Russell, 2007). Existential therapy is described as a philosophical approach

that influences a counselor’s therapeutic practice. This approach is grounded on the

assumption that we are free and therefore responsible for our choices and actions. We are

the authors of our lives, and we design the pathways we follow.

A basic premise is that we are not victims of circumstance because we are what we choose

to be.

A major aim of therapy is to encourage clients to reflect on life, to recognize their range of

alternatives and to decide among them. Once clients begin the process of recognizing the

ways in which they have passively accepted circumstances and surrendered control, they

can start on a path of consciously shaping their own lives. Yalom (2003) emphasizes that the

first step in the therapeutic...