What is the most marked difference between an existential ...

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What is the most marked difference between an existential approach and other counseling approaches?
 
  a. Those who use the existential approach need no special training.
  b. Existentialists are not concerned with the client-counselor relationship.
  c. Once a client completes therapy with an existential therapist, that therapist chooses not to work with them again.
  d. Existential therapists work only with clients who are struggling with issues that the therapist has personally experienced in their existence.
  e. Existential counselors do not purposefully acquire a life history from each client.

Question 2

What is meant by the term phenomenological stance when it is used in humanistic literature?
 
  a. The counselor purposefully acquires a life history early in the counseling relationship so that he or she can better understand the client.
  b. The counselors phenomenological stance is the collection of experiences that the counselor brings to the process. It includes the counselors theoretical training and beliefs as informed by existential and humanistic readings and interactive sessions with other professionals.
  c. The phenomenological stance means that humanistic counselors must remain flexible because the same occurrence is different when perceived by different people.
  d. In order to remain objective, the counselor must be careful not to identify too much with any of his or her clients.
  e. The counselor must remain aware of his or her reactions to each client because the counselors reactions will be the same as those of people around this client and therefore form the basis of interventions that will be made in order to socialize the client.

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: e

Answer to Question 2

Answer: c

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