Reference no: EM133610184

Questions:

A. Walt is struggling with a number of themes/issues, including his wife's death, retirement, lack of sense of community and purpose, sadness. What might be some of the givens of existence that you would want to prioritize and explore with him as an existential therapist?

B. What is your main function as his existential therapist?

Do you want to support him, confront him, teach him skills, guide him to specific activities?

C. Walt has resigned himself to marking time. What are the implications if you accept and respond to Walt from his perspective?

How might you help him open up to other possibilities to the future?

D. How might you address his suicidal thoughts?

E. How might you proceed if he told you that he plans to kill himself because he has no hope for the future?

F. If you are of a different gender, age and ethnicity than Walt, and he says, "I don't see how you can really understand me.