Gestalt Therapy

According to the Gestalt perspective, if people do not remember their dreams: ​ A. they may be refusing to face what is wrong with their lives. ​ B. that suggests they have no internal conflicts. ​ C. they are sound sleepers. ​ D. they lack creativity.

A. they may be refusing to face what is wrong with their lives.

​ The Gestalt therapist: ​ A. freely makes interpretations for the client. ​ B.pays attention to the client's nonverbal language. ​ C. is mainly nondirective. ​ D. helps the client understand why he or she is behaving in self-defeating ways.

B. pays attention to the client's nonverbal language.

According to Gestalt theory, all of the following are true about contact except: ​ A contact is necessary for change and growth to occur. ​ B one maintains a sense of individuality as a result of good contact. ​C withdrawal after a good contact experience indicates neurosis. ​ D contact is made by seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, and moving.

C withdrawal after a good contact experience indicates neurosis.

The paradoxical theory of behavior change suggests: ​ A. we change by setting future-oriented goals. ​ B. clients should pay particular attention to becoming the person they wish to be. ​ C. careful attention should devoted to changing behavior in the moment it is happening. D. authentic change occurs more from being who we are then from trying to be who we are not

D. authentic change occurs more from being who we are then from trying to be who we are not

The five different kinds of contact boundary disturbances include all of the following, except: ​A. retroflection. ​B. projection. ​C. introjection. ​D. introflection.

D. ​introflection.

Which of the following Gestalt techniques involves asking one person in a group to speak to each of the other group members? ​ The rehearsal exercise ​ The reversal technique ​ Making the rounds ​ The exaggeration technique

Making the rounds

​Who among the following is not considered a relational Gestalt therapist? A. ​Fritz Perls B. ​Laura Perls ​C. Miriam Polster ​D. Erving Polster

a.​Fritz Perls

Contemporary Gestalt therapists view client resistance as a: ​ way that clients avoid confrontation. ​ sign of poor motivation for therapeutic work. ​ therapy interfering force that needs to be overcome. ​ creative adjustment to a situation and something to be respected.

creative adjustment to a situation and something to be respected.

One of the main contributions of the Gestalt approach is its: ​ behavioral training models. ​ emphasis on learning to appreciate and fully experience the present moment. ​ attempt to remain focused on the past. ​ ability to allow the client to remain oblivious to his or her behavior.

emphasis on learning to appreciate and fully experience the present moment.

​ The basic goal of Gestalt therapy is: ​ A. attaining awareness and contact with the environment. ​ B. to understand why we feel as we do. ​ C. to uncover repressed material. ​ D. to help clients develop better social skills.

​ A. attaining awareness and contact with the environment.

Which of the following is not true about Fritz Perls? ​ A. He was the main originator and developer of Gestalt therapy. ​ B. During his childhood, he was a model student. ​ C. He was influenced by psychoanalytic concepts. ​ D. He took issue with Freud's theory on a number of grounds.

​ B. During his childhood, he was a model student.

According to Gestalt theory, people use avoidance in order to: ​ A help assist them in facing unfinished business. ​ B keep from feeling uncomfortable emotions. ​ C help them work to change. ​D help express feelings openly.

​ B. keep from feeling uncomfortable emotions.

When a person experiences an internal conflict (namely a conflict between top dog and underdog), which of the following techniques would be most appropriate? ​ A. Making the rounds ​ B. The reversal technique ​ C. The internal dialogue exercise ​ D. The rehearsal exercise

​ C. The internal dialogue exercise

Mariah tells her therapist, a Gestaltist, that she dreamt she got married to a pit bull and felt uneasy about telling her parents that she married a dog. When her parents discovered their son-in-law was a pit bull, they disowned her and suddenly became dogs themselves. In response to this dream, Mariah's therapist: ​ A. may need to contact a psychiatric hospital (and possibly an animal shelter) since it is likely Mariah unconsciously desires to marry a dog. ​ B. should interpret the dream for her client. ​ C.should assist her client in reliving the dream as though it was happening in the now and have her become each part of the dream. ​ D. should encourage her client to forget the dream since it was meaningless.

​ C. should assist her client in reliving the dream as though it was happening in the now and have her become each part of the dream.

Which of the following is not true about Gestalt techniques? ​ A. "Exercises" are ready-made techniques. ​ B. "Experiments" grow out of the interaction between therapist and client. ​ C. Clients need to be prepared for their involvement in Gestalt techniques. ​ D. Experiments are always carried out during the therapy session, rather than outside it.

​ D. Experiments are always carried out during the therapy session, rather than outside it.

Which of the following is not one of the Gestalt group leader's roles? ​ Designing experiments for group members ​ Evoking group catharsis ​ Engaging in self-disclosure ​ Facilitating contact in the group setting

​ Evoking group catharsis

Which of the following is not true about the Gestalt view of the role of confrontation in therapy? ​ a. It is not possible to be both confrontational and gentle with clients. ​ b. It is important to confront clients with the ways they are avoiding being fully alive. ​ c. Confrontation does not have to be aimed at negative traits. ​ d. Confrontation should be a genuine expression of caring.

​ a. It is not possible to be both confrontational and gentle with clients

Gestalt therapy is a form of: ​ ​A. Freudian psychoanalytic therapy. ​ B. neo-Freudian analytic therapy. ​ C. behavior therapy. ​ D. existential therapy.

​ d. existential therapy.

The empty chair technique: ​ assists clients in deciding what chair they like. ​ is a vehicle for the technique of role reversal. ​ allows clients to internalize a role and not share. ​ does not help resolve unfinished business.

​ is a vehicle for the technique of role reversal.

​ In Gestalt theory, the experiment is: ​ a specific technique of therapy. Correct Response ​ tailored to fit the client's unique needs and presented in an invitational manner. ​ a ready-made exercise used to achieve a behavioral goal. ​ a scientific procedure to assess the effectiveness of therapy.

​ tailored to fit the client's unique needs and presented in an invitational manner.

​ Often Greta, who struggles to feel good about herself, comes to sessions with slouched posture. In order to help Greta gain a clearer understanding of the inner meaning of her slouched posture, a Gestalt therapist might: ​ A. ask Greta to exaggerate her poor posture, which is likely to intensify her feelings attached to it. ​B. have Greta undergo hypnosis. ​ C. ask Greta to free associate to the words "slouched posture." ​ D. refer her to an orthopedic surgeon to rule out scoliosis.

​A. ask Greta to exaggerate her poor posture, which is likely to intensify her feelings attached to it.

A critical difference between early Gestalt therapy and relational Gestalt therapy is the: ​A. emphasis on contact. ​B. approach to confrontation. ​C. use of techniques. ​D. focus on the figure formation process.

​B. approach to confrontation.

Erving Polster believes that storytelling: ​A. is always a form of resistance. ​B. can be the heart of the therapeutic process. ​C. is acceptable only if one's client is a writer. ​ D. is an indication that one's client is a pathological liar.

​B. can be the heart of the therapeutic process.

A Gestalt technique that is most useful when a person attempts to deny an aspect of his or her personality (such as tenderness) is: ​A. making the rounds. ​B. the reversal exercise. ​C. the rehearsal exercise. ​D. the empty chair technique.

​B. the reversal exercise.

Empirical support for Gestalt therapy is: ​A. weak. ​B well-developed. ​C becoming stronger. ​D unavailable.

​C. becoming stronger.

​ It is essential that counselors establish a relationship with their clients, so that the clients will: ​A. be less divulging during an assessment. B. be less focused on the here and now. ​C. feel trusting enough to participate in the learning that can result from Gestalt experiments. ​D. be more willing to be involved in process-oriented diagnosis.

​C. feel trusting enough to participate in the learning that can result from Gestalt experiments.

Field theory asserts that: ​ A. the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. ​B. human beings have a innate capacity to self regulate. C. ​the organism must be seen in its environment, or in its context, as part of the constantly changing field. ​ D. phenomenological inquiry is the key to behavior change.

​C. the organism must be seen in its environment, or in its context, as part of the constantly changing field.

Because of his need to be liked, Jose makes careful efforts to get along with everyone and minimize interpersonal conflicts. Which boundary disturbance is Jose exhibiting? ​Introjection ​Projection ​Retroflection ​Confluence

​Confluence

​ __________ involves blurring the differentiation between the self and the environment. ​Confluence ​Deflection ​Retroflection ​Projection

​Confluence

__________ are preplanned activities that can be used to elicit emotion, produce action, or achieve a specific goal. ​ Cathartic events ​Faulty experiments ​Exercises ​Conflicting opinions

​Exercises

Which of the following is not one of Miriam Polster's three stages in her integration sequence? ​Reunification ​Discovery ​Assimilation ​Accommodation

​Reunification

​ Which of the following aspects of a client's use of language would a Gestalt therapist not focus on? ​a. It" talk ​b. You" talk ​c. Questions ​d. Semantics

​d. Semantics

A teenage girl is angry with her parents and cuts on her arm. In Gestalt terms, she is most likely engaging in: ​introjection. ​projection. ​retroflection. ​confluence.

​retroflection.