Existential therapy focuses on helping clients find meaning amidst anxiety by making choices to act and think responsibly and focusing on individual problems such as loneliness, despair, isolation and death. Existential therapy believes that clients’ problems come from not sufficiently exercising choice to bring meaning into their lives. What are the main themes for this type of therapy?
  1. Self and determination
  2. Responsibility and freedom
  3. Choices and self
  4. Authenticity and free will
Explanation
Answer: B -The idea that responsibility and freedom enable people to live meaningful lives, even amidst uncertainty, is a major theme of existential therapy. The existential therapist believes that the human experience is influenced by biology, culture and luck. Each individual is responsible for making meaning out of their lives. Therapy helps with the confrontation of negative internal forces.
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