Experiential
This German word means "Present" or "being-in-the-world"
Dasein
This is the realization or fulfillment of one's talents and potentialities, considered a drive or need present in everyone.
Self-Actualization
Instead of psychiatric labels, a Gestalt therapist would use THIS term to describe mental health problems
Growth disorders
This disorder is diagnosed after the patient has experienced both a depressive episode lasting at least 2 weeks and a manic episode lasting at least 1 week
Bipolar Disorder
If a therapist subscribed to the notion “We are our choices,” what concept are they describing?
Free Will
This is the idea that each individual lives in a different reality based on their culture, gender, history, etc
Multiple Personal Realities
This is the mechanism of change in Gestalt therapy (2 parts)
Awareness that leads to self-actualization
Many of the physical manifestations of mental illness that Freud saw - unexplained paralysis, sudden inability to read, etc - would now be diagnosed as THIS
Conversion Disorder
This type of anxiety indicates a person lacks awareness of our physical world, our relationships, and our psychological world.
Neurotic anxiety
When a person's self-concept does not match up with his/her experience
Incongruence
This Gestalt law says that "objects or shapes that are close to one another appear to form groups”
Proximity
As one of the primary symptoms of depression, people can be down, most of the day, nearly every day or THIS alternative
Lost of interest in activities they usually enjoy
Which intervention method of Existentialism focuses specifically on having a client seek out their fears or induce them as part of the coping process in order to prevent them from happening in the first place?
Paradoxical Intention
What are the three primary attitudinal conditions of the therapeutic relationship?
Congruence, Unconditional Positive Regard, and Empathy
What is field theory?
Behavior (B) is a function of the person (p) and their environment (e)
Someone who is being assessed for PTSD is experiencing self-blame, poor recall, and a feeling of isolation. What criterion for diagnosing PTSD would these feelings fall under?
Criterion D (Negative Alteration in Cognition)
What are the 4 ultimate concerns of the human condition?
Inevitability of death (us and loved ones)
Aloneness
Meaningless of life
Freedom and Responsibility
A coastline was used as a metaphor for this idea?
Personality as process
What are the 5 layers of contact and growth?
•1) Phony Layer
•2) Phobic Layer
•3) Impasse Layer
•4) Implosive Layer
•5) Explosive Layer
This is diagnosed when a patient presents with a chronic instability in mood, sense of self, relationships, etc.
Borderline Personality Disorder