Technique
In Gestalt therapy ______ are responsible for establishing and maintaining a therapeutic atmosphere.
What is the therapist.
One of the main focuses of gestalt theory is to interpret and analyze dreams. True or False?
True
When a client states phrases such as "at times I feel that I don't have a leg to stand on" or "I feel like I have a hole in my soul" are examples of _______.
What is metaphors.
A basic assumption of this type of therapy, is that individuals have the capacity to self-regulate when they are aware what is happening in, and around them.
What is Gestalt Therapy.
This application has ready made techniques that are use to make something happen or to achieve a goal.
What is exercise.
What exercise involves asking a client to go to every person in a group and speak with them or ask them to do something with each person?
What is making the rounds.
__________________ was the main originator and developer of Gestalt Therapy.
What is Fritz Perls.
This occurs when external support is not available or the customary way of being does not work.
What is an “impasse” or “stuck point”.
Gestalt, is a German word meaning ________?
What is a “whole” or “completion”.
This application has active techniques that collaborate the exploration of the client’s experiences.
What is experiments.
Making the rounds exercise is used for what purpose?
What is confronting, risk, disclose, experiment with new behaviors, and to grow and change.
Gestalt therapy is aimed at _________, not solutions to problems.
What is awareness.
What internal dialogue is the authoritarian, moralistic, demanding, and bossy personality?
What is top dog.
____________________ involves paying attention to what is occurring now.
What is Phenomenological Inquiry.
As described by Miriam Polster (1987) Gestalt Therapy has a three-stage integration sequence. In the first stage client’s have new realizations about themselves and others. What is this stage called?
What is discovery.
Why is Gestalt theory effective when working with working with clients from diverse backgrounds?
What is this theory takes the client's context into account.
While Frued's view of human beings is mechanistic, Perls stressed a ________ approach to personality.
What is holistic.
This will occur when figures emerge from the background that are not completed and resolved. This can be manifested by unexpressed feelings, resentment, rage, hatred, pain, anxiety, grief, guilt and abandonment.
What is unfinished business.
Arnie Beisser suggested that “authentic change” occurs more from who we are than from trying to be who we are not. Beisser called this tenet ____________.
What is the Paradoxical Theory of Change.
As described by Miriam Polster (1987) Gestalt Therapy has a three-stage integration sequence. In the second stage client’s recognize they have a choice and make new choices. What is this stage called?
What is accommodation.
What technique involves a role reversal to bring into consciousness the fantasies of what the “other” might be thinking or feeling?
What is the empty chair technique.
This principle of Gestalt Theory asserts that the organism must be seen in its environment, or in its context, as a part of the constantly changing field.
What is field theory.
The therapist challenges the client to recognize how they are blocking their strengths.
What is confrontation.
This process tracks how the individual organizes experience from moment to moment as some aspects of the environmental field emerges from the background and becomes the focal point of the individual’s intention and interest.
What is the Figure Formation Process.
As described by Miriam Polster (1987) Gestalt Therapy has a three-stage integration sequence. In the third stage client’s learn how to influence their environment. What is this stage called?
What is assimilation.