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Gestalt Flashcards

1
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Gestalt Therapy is what?

A

Phenomenological

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What does phenomenological mean?

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People must be understood holistically and contextually.

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What does the therapist help the client do?

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Become more aware of who they really are

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4
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What develops when a person avoids direct contact with the environment or parts of the self?

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Neuroses and other problems

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5
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Gestalt methods are what?

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Active, provocative and experiential

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6
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Gestalt is what?

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Atheoretical

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What does atheoretical mean?

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The therapist focuses more on the moment-to-moment flow of experience

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What is body awareness?

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Awareness of one’s body and the emotions expressed through the body

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What is used to increase the client’s affective intensity while supporting the client with affirmation?

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Safe Emergency

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10
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What is an example of body awareness?

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Where do you feel (emotion) in your body?
What would (body part or movement) say if it had a voice?
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Who are the main theorists connected to Gestalt?

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Fritz and Laura Posner Perls

Erving and Miriam Polster

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What is the goal of Gestalt therapy?

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To help people achieve a greater sense of wholeness, awareness, and aliveness, like peeling an onion.

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What is the Phony Layer

A

Shoulds and habit living

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14
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What is the phobic layer in Gestalt Counseling?

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Internal irrational fears

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What is the Impasse Layer?

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Being Stuck

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What is the Implosive Layer ?

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When the phony layer collapses, client feels empty and lost which opens up personal exploration

17
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What is the Explosive Layer

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Abandoning of habitual pretenses releasing a new burst of possibilities previously denied or suppressed.

18
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Who developed the integration sequence?

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Polsters

19
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What is the integration sequence?

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  1. Discovery
  2. Accommodation
  3. Assimilation
  4. Integration
20
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New figures emerge from the ground into the foreground

A

Discovery

21
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New behavior in existing context. Awkwardness and self-conscious

A

Accommodation

22
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What is Assimilation

A

Client begins to take ownership of new behavior

23
Q

The new behavior becomes seamless and effortless

A

Integration

24
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How can the counselor create a therapeutic relationship while using Gestalt?

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  1. Eschewing professional pretense of role
  2. Here and now; presence and spontaneity
  3. Dialogic Engagement
  4. Confirmation and Inclusion
25
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Being real and a transparent human being

A

Eschewing professional pretense of role

26
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What does Dialogic Engagement entail on behalf of the counselor?

A

Honesty and self-disclosure

27
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Joining with another person’s worldview while maintaining a clear sense of self (empathy)

A

Confirmation and Inclusion

28
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The client’s subjective reality is what?

A

Essential

29
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What are Gestalt examples of polarities and disowned parts?

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  1. Social versus natural self
  2. Adult versus child
  3. Perfect versus failure
  4. Emotional versus logical
  5. Shallow versus deep
  6. Responsible versus carefree
30
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The only goal is what?

A

Awareness

31
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What type of living is a goal of Gestalt?

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Self-regulated

32
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What are you removing in Gestalt therapy?

A

Barriers as opposed to correcting defects

33
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What are you accepting in Gestalt Therapy?

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“what is” and make peace with what one is

34
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What are you integrating in Gestalt therapy?

A

Polarities

35
Q

Increase ________ while decreasing _______

A

self-awareness/avoidance

36
Q

Identify and accept _____ in all its variations

A

self

37
Q

What is a common intervention used within Gestalt therapy?

A

Empty Chair: action over talk

38
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What are the Steps to a successful experiment.

A
  1. Identify focus- unfinished business, polarities, resistance, etc.
  2. Initiate experiment
  3. Focus experiment
  4. Experience the experiment- debriefing

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