Gestalt

Question 1

Gestalt Therapy is what?

Answer 1

Phenomenological

Question 2

What does phenomenological mean?

Answer 2

People must be understood holistically and contextually.

Question 3

What does the therapist help the client do?

Answer 3

Become more aware of who they really are

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Neuroses and other problems

Question 5

Gestalt methods are what?

Answer 5

Active, provocative and experiential

Question 6

Gestalt is what?

Answer 6

Atheoretical

Question 7

What does atheoretical mean?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

What is body awareness?

Answer 8

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

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Safe Emergency

Question 10

What is an example of body awareness?

Answer 10

Where do you feel (emotion) in your body?
What would (body part or movement) say if it had a voice?

Question 11

Who are the main theorists connected to Gestalt?

Answer 11

Fritz and Laura Posner Perls

Erving and Miriam Polster

Question 12

What is the goal of Gestalt therapy?

Answer 12

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

Question 13

What is the Phony Layer

Answer 13

Shoulds and habit living

Question 14

What is the phobic layer in Gestalt Counseling?

Answer 14

Internal irrational fears

Question 15

What is the Impasse Layer?

Answer 15

Being Stuck

Question 16

What is the Implosive Layer ?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

What is the Explosive Layer

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Who developed the integration sequence?

Answer 18

Polsters

Question 19

What is the integration sequence?

Answer 19

1. Discovery
2. Accommodation
3. Assimilation
4. Integration

Question 20

New figures emerge from the ground into the foreground

Answer 20

Discovery

Question 21

New behavior in existing context. Awkwardness and self-conscious

Answer 21

Accommodation

Question 22

What is Assimilation

Answer 22

Client begins to take ownership of new behavior

Question 23

The new behavior becomes seamless and effortless

Answer 23

Integration

Question 24

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

Answer 24

1. Eschewing professional pretense of role
2. Here and now; presence and spontaneity
3. Dialogic Engagement
4. Confirmation and Inclusion

Question 25

Being real and a transparent human being

Answer 25

Eschewing professional pretense of role

Question 26

What does Dialogic Engagement entail on behalf of the counselor?

Answer 26

Honesty and self-disclosure

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Confirmation and Inclusion

Question 28

The client's subjective reality is what?

Answer 28

Essential

Question 29

What are Gestalt examples of polarities and disowned parts?

Answer 29

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

Question 30

The only goal is what?

Answer 30

Awareness

Question 31

What type of living is a goal of Gestalt?

Answer 31

Self-regulated

Question 32

What are you removing in Gestalt therapy?

Answer 32

Barriers as opposed to correcting defects

Question 33

What are you accepting in Gestalt Therapy?

Answer 33

"what is" and make peace with what one is

Question 34

What are you integrating in Gestalt therapy?

Answer 34

Polarities

Question 35

Increase ________ while decreasing _______

Answer 35

self-awareness/avoidance

Question 36

Identify and accept _____ in all its variations

Answer 36

self

Question 37

What is a common intervention used within Gestalt therapy?

Answer 37

Empty Chair: action over talk

Question 38

What are the Steps to a successful experiment.

Answer 38

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