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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...