Edgar is continually obsessed with increasing his sales figures at work. He worries about how he is doing compared to the other sales workers. An existential therapist would focus on
a. feelings or desires for self improvement.
b. increasing the volume of his sales.
c. issues of dying and intimacy.
d. repetitive thoughts of achievement.
Q. 2Socratic dialogue is sometimes used in existential therapy. When used it is most likely to be used by a therapist following the approach developed by
a. Buber.
b. Frankl.
c. May.
d. Yalom.
Q. 3Frankl's approach to therapy tends to
a. be brief and active.
b. be highly confrontive.
c. focus only on themes, not techniques.
d. be similar in focus to psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
Q. 4Brief existential therapy differs from standard existential therapy because brief existential therapy
a. focuses on being.
b. has a limited focus.
c. only focuses on living and dying.
d. only focuses on the therapeutic relationship.
Q. 5Existential therapists attend to the patient's
a. behaviors.
b. life themes.
c. symptoms.
d. unconscious processes.
Q. 6For Frankl, the technique of dereflection refers to
a. changing client concerns to healthy ones.
b. empathizing with the client's loneliness.
c. focusing away from current problems.
d. returning to the central theme in therapy.
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