Therapeutic Technique
This technique involves speaking to an imagined person or part of oneself seated in an unoccupied chair.
What is The Empty Chair
The main goal of Gestalt therapy is to increase this.
What is Awareness?
Gestalt therapy emphasizes what the client is experiencing in the present moment.
What is Here and Now?
This healthy ability allows a person to recognize what they need and take appropriate action to satisfy that need.
What is Self-Regulation?
He became the best-known public figure associated with Gestalt therapy.
Who is Fritz Perls?
A therapist asks,
"What are you noticing in your body right now?"
They are using this technique
What is Body Awareness?
Clients are encouraged to own their thoughts, feelings, choices and behaviours by developing this.
What is Personal Responsibility?
This principle views thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations, behaviours and relationships as interconnected.
What is Holism?
A psychologically healthy person can connect with others while still maintaining this.
What is a clear sense of individuality?
Her background in dance and movement influenced Gestalt therapy’s emphasis on body awareness.
Who is Laura Perls?
The client gives a voice to every person, object and element appearing in a dream.
What is Dream Work
Gestalt therapy encourages clients to become more _______ for their choices.
What is Responsible?
This is the point at which the person and the environment meet and interact.
What is Contact Boundary
This healthy process involves stepping back after a need has been satisfied or an interaction has been completed.
What is withdrawal?
This writer and social critic helped develop the concepts of the relational self and creative adjustment.
Who is Paul Goodman?
This language technique encourages clients to replace general or blaming statements with personal ownership, such as changing “You make me angry” to “I feel angry when that happens".
What are "I" statements
Therapy helps clients address these unresolved emotions or experiences from the past.
What is Unfinished Business?
This refers to meaningful interaction with oneself, other people, and the environment while maintaining a clear sense of self.
What is Contact?
An adjustment that originally helped a person cope but may become restrictive when circumstances change.
What is Creative Adjustment?
Wertheimer, Köhler and Koffka were the major founders of this earlier psychological approach.
What is Gestalt Psychology?
The client alternates between a demanding, critical part and a resistant, excuse-making part.
What is TopDog/Underdog
Increased awareness allows clients to move away from automatic patterns and develop more of this ability.
What is the ability to make deliberate choices?
This describes the organism’s natural ability to identify and respond to its most pressing needs.
What is organismic self-regulation?
A person continues feeling guilty over something that happened ten years ago.
This illustrates this Gestalt concept.
What is unfinished business?
Perls, Hefferline and Goodman published this foundational book in 1951.
What is Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality?