Resilience
Rather than avoiding this, resilience is the idea that one may rise up against challenges
What is failure or pain?
This feeling is common in clients with communication disorders, due to difficulties with fostering communication/socialization/connection with others.
What is loneliness?
A limitation of this view is that it may focus too deeply on coping, rather than meaning.
What is resilience?
Instead of focusing on deficits or pathology, resilience emphasizes these factors that help individuals cope with challenges.
What are strengths?
In existentialism, clients are encouraged to make this instead of panicking and self-loathing during crises.
This view aims to help individuals live authentically and meaningfully.
What is existentialism?
This resilience skill may involve breaking bigger problems down into smaller, more manageable parts.
What is problem-solving?
This major component of existentialism boasts that clients do not have a say in their circumstances, but they have a choice in how they respond.
What is autonomy/freedom?
This viewpoint utilizes reflection, dialogue, meaning‑making, and responsibility assumption in treatment.
What is existentialism?
Helping others, setting small goals, and positive self-talk are ways to do this
What is practice resilience?
This characteristic of existential therapy can make it especially challenging for student clinicians to know how to proceed during sessions
What is a lack of structure/step-by-step framework?
The role of the clinician in this view is to support, coach, and facilitate coping strategies
What is resilience?
This is one way to build resilience which involves maintaining connections with others.
What is building relationships/staying connected?
Clinicians are required to be comfortable with this abstract idea, which means to be unclear/unsure, in order to successfully implement existentialism
What is ambiguity?
The decision-making power is shared between the clinician and client in this view.
What is resilience?