Gestalt Therapy

Question 1

Theory of change

Answer 1

Change your occurs through increase awareness of here and now experience in a dialogic relationship. Both existential and humanistic.

Question 2

Role of the therapist

Answer 2

The therapist is an authentic, present other; non-directive and non-judgmental; increase the client awareness in the press and moment.

Question 3

Treatment goals

Answer 3

The goal is for clients to become aware of what they are doing; they are doing it; how they can change themselves; and at the same time learn to accept the value themselves.

Question 4

Phenomenological method

Answer 4

Exploring experience by description and abstaining from interpretation.

Question 5

Dialogical relationship

Answer 5

Therapist presence allows for the client to become fully present.

Question 6

Experiential

Answer 6

Through experiments, the therapist supports the clients direct experience of something new, instead of merely talking about the possibility of something new.

Question 7

Here-and-now focus

Answer 7

The past is discussed in terms of how the past affects the present.

Question 8

Interventions: empty chair technique

Answer 8

Used to explore clients relationships with themselves or others in their lives. A form of role-playing, the client addresses an empty chair as if another person was in it in order to act out two more sites of a discussion

Question 9

Intervention: experiments

Answer 9

Encourages the clients to experience her feelings rather than just talk about them.

Question 10

Interventions: Body techniques

Answer 10

Brings clients awareness to their body functioning; help them to be aware of how they can use their bodies to support excitement and awareness

Question 11

Intervention; Focus on the process

Answer 11

Therapist pays attention to how things are said.