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Theory of Personality
Concepts
Theory of Counseling
Mechanisms of Counseling
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Who is primarily credited with creating Gestalt psychotherapy / counseling?
Fritz Pearls
100
According to Gestalt therapy field theory, it is impossible for perception o be totally objective. True or False?
True
100
What is the term for the inability to form clear figures in the moment to moment?
Mental Illness
100
The goal of Gestalt counseling is ________ .
Awareness
100
What are all techniques are considered?
Experiments
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Gestalt psychology has a literal English translation. True or False?
False Gestalt psychology has no literal English translation.
200
The phrase "the more one tries to change, the more one stays the same" might align with what theory of change?
Paradoxical Theory of Change
200
Figures and ground stand as _________ to each other.
Polarities
200
Gestalt counselors attempt to directly change behavior. True or False
False Gestalt counselors attempt to explore rather than change behavior.
200
This is an example of what?: “What are you aware of and experiencing right here and now?” Hint: It is the most common mechanism.
Focusing
300
Gestalt counselors today are more supportive and compassionate because they now realize the influence of what?
Shame and the potential for shame in a confrontive approach.
300
Conscious and Unconscious could also be call what?
Awareness and Unawareness will also accept: Figure and Ground
300
The process of opposing the formation of a figure that threatens to emerge in a context that is judged to be dangerous is considered __________ .
Resistance
300
Counseling is primarily a ________ between client and counselor.
Relationship
300
The empty chair technique is an example of which mechanism?
Enactment
400
Gestalt was an integration of multiple systems holism, Gestalt psychology, __________ , phenomenology, and existentialism. (fill in the blank)
Field Theory
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The shifting of need states and the most important need becoming the figure of one’s awareness is a sign of good _______ .
Health
400
________ and maturity result from creative adjustment.
Health
400
What and How in the ____ and ____ . Fill in the blanks
Here and Now
400
Self-disclosure is considered appropriate in Gestalt counseling. True or False?
True
500
Laura and Fritz Peals studied with which existentialist?
Buber
500
Focusing the a word on page in contrast the rest of the page is an example of what?
Figure and Ground
500
Authentic experience can come from a counselor's willingness to staying in an _______ with a client.
Impasse
500
Awareness exists on what?
A continuum
500
Fantasizing, imagining, or mentally experimenting with opposite belief is called _________ . Fill in the blank
Loosening and Integrating Techniques